Sentence examples for pretext for action from inspiring English sources
But peace is elusive in Mr Putin's world, because anything can become a pretext for action, and any perceived aggression demands a riposte.Act now or pay laterFor Mr Obama, this is a defining moment: he must lead, not just co-operate.
And they also claimed a legal issue over their ownership was the Conference's real concern, with the debt situation being used as a pretext for action against them.
Years later, Assange's organization ever-so-inconveniently leaked thousands of Afghan war logs and diplomatic cables about that war, and women's bodies are again the pretext for action.
Never fully dramatically integrated, it functions as a pretext for actions (which is not the same thing).
"May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman," he said.
Terrorism is a real factor in "The Ghost," if only because Mr. Harris (whose glossily commercial novels include "Fatherland," "Imperium" and "Pompeii") is sufficiently formulaic and commercial to know that his story needs pretexts for action as well as caustic prose.
I greatly fear that the Bush administration will find some pretext for military action in order to set up an American-led government and gain control of Iraq's vast oil deposits.
WASHINGTON — Even as Iran on Tuesday angrily dismissed a new United Nations report on its nuclear ambitions as an American fabrication and a pretext for military action, some analysts said the report's wealth of data could complicate efforts by Iran and its allies to defend the nuclear program as peaceful.
This is especially since a rebel called Boxer (Isaach De Bankolé) is hiding out in their compound, giving the soldiers a pretext for violent action, and Bankolé's peripheral presence is as mysterious and oblique as everything else in the movie.
There have been fears Russia could use the convoy as a pretext for military action in Ukraine.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he believed Russia was developing a pretext for undercover action, such as sending peacekeepers or humanitarian assistance into eastern Ukraine.
