Sentence examples for pretext for from inspiring English sources

The taboo was a pretext for extortion.

It was the pretext for courtship.

The project was a pretext for remaking Zimbabwe's political map.

This later became a pretext for defending "Russia's citizens".

Any provocation could easily become a pretext for renewed conflict.

"The books are not a pretext for scandal; the scandal was the pretext for the books," he said.

Increasingly, dissidents disputed Syria's pretext for remaining in Lebanon.

Even the text is only a pretext for dancing.

"There has been completely no pretext for that," he said.

Global recession should not be a pretext for global repression.

(The pretext for the conflict is miners' need for work).