If the police hadn't targeted drivers in the city's poor black neighbourhoods for pretext stops, she would still have had her job.
A March 2002 Cabinet Office options paper suggested that Saddam's weapons of mass destruction (on which the intelligence was "poor") could provide a pretext: A refusal to admit UN inspectors, or their admission and subsequent likely frustration, which resulted in an appropriate finding by the security council could provide the justification for military action.
The bin Laden vaccination scam was perhaps the darkest instance of health-for-the-poor as not just pretext, but full smoke-and-mirror excuse.
Fired for cause, he claims his poor performance evaluation was a pretext and that his real crime was appearing in the Bravo reality show The Real Housewives of New York.
He, too, was fired for cause, but claims his poor performance evaluation was a pretext and that his real crime was that he appeared in the Bravo reality show The Real Housewives of New York.
Rather, they use the pretext of being poor as a convenient way of explaining away their negligence [ 19].
One individual, for example, ascribed the shift to a desire to give a chance to the much-touted Belghazi, suggesting that poor Wana results offered a convenient pretext for change.
Some analysts would leave it there and say that you don't need to get into the nature of conservative ideology; that ideology is merely a pretext for taking from the poor and giving to the rich.
Islamic movements, like the controversial Gülen Movement, have mobilized mainly through their networks in the education by opening hundreds of private schools, dorms, and study centers (dersane) with the pretext of quality education for the poor.
In addition, the poor are routinely evicted from housing on the slightest pretext, frequently driving them into homeless shelters – which are in turn forced to move when local homeowners engage in nimby (not in my back yard) protests.
