Sentence examples for plausible pretext from inspiring English sources
But these places have bills to pay, and it does them no good to overly refine their standards — they're geared to call a book a classic under any plausible pretext they can find.
This is suggested, for example, by a passage in which Kant asks us to imagine someone threatened by his prince with immediate execution unless he "give[s] false testimony against an honorable man whom the prince would like to destroy under a plausible pretext".
The political element that scared Columbia away — until after the Cuban Missile Crisis, which turned the movie's paranoid pretext all too plausible — is the fear of nuclear war and the breeding of a group of children who, having been exposed to radiation, are immune to it.
The pretexts do not need to be very plausible, either: if someone went to law school, and that turned out badly, then someone must be to blame, and preferably "a living being upon whom he can release his emotions".
September 11th was a pretext.
The alleged pretext for the murder – a squabble over a prostitute who may have been the Arab's sister – isn't in the least plausible, not least because Musa didn't have a sister.
But decommissioning is a pretext.
A pretext to detain a foreign national?
