We are not fooled: This is a poor pretext to prevent her from participating in the upcoming elections.
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.
Labour standards are often a pretext for domestic protectionism, and using trade sanctions to punish poor countries may harm poor workers more than help them.
The pretext for forcing Jones out was pathetic.
And if Trump's proposed investigation does serve as a pretext for legislation designed to make it harder for minorities, immigrants, and poor people to vote, that will be just fine by the G.O.P.
Trump has said that widespread voter fraud cost him the popular vote in November, although critics say the claim is unsubstantiated and a pretext for federal laws to suppress voter participation, including by racial minority groups and poor people.
For the poor, the American police are too often not guardians, but incarceration expeditors, using routine pedestrian and vehicle stops as a pretext for finding something bigger that can land someone in lockup.
She was contemporaneous with and involved in Surrealism, Ultraism, and prewar experimentation with prose poems, but she is rarely included with the Generation of 1927; her preoccupation with issues of social justice especially education of the poor is often taken as a pretext for this exclusion, even though survivors of that generation remaining in Spain also produced "social" poetry.
The taboo was a pretext for extortion.
It was the pretext for courtship.
