"I think what we're clearly seeing is a political maneuver, using a spurious legal argument as a pretext for shutting off a Cabinet debate that was probably leaning towards staying in the agreement," Paul Bodnar, the former climate chief of the White House's National Security Council, recently told Climatewire.
The vague economic logic of the argument is a pretext for Wilde to vent his rage on an audience that treated him as an amusing sideshow: The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art.
But what if agribusinesses use efficiency arguments as a pretext for pushing forward high-tech farming solutions, asks Hall, who claims something similar is unfolding in India's Maharashtra state at present.
Animals Asia says it fears that the national security argument is only a pretext for evicting the sanctuary.
That gives heft to to the argument that Newtown was a pretext for far-ranging gun measures the left long had sought.
The whole argument about health, then, is a flimsy pretext for signalling the SNP's willingness – eagerness even – to get stuck in to the parliamentary powerplay that will follow the indecisive election that's now widely predicted for May.
"That destroys the argument against her that was used as a pretext for forcing her to resign and I think that apologies are in order".
"We were duped," said the House speaker, Mike Milburn, a Republican and sponsor of the repeal bill, who said he thought that the arguments about medical use had been a pretext for encouraging recreational use and creating a path to full legalization.
"That pretext for inaction has simply disappeared – it is a complete line in the sand.
But they do not, because they are not trying to make a serious intellectual argument, but rather are abusing a sound economic principle to find a pretext for bankrupting gun manufacturers, who are just providing legal goods that consumers want to purchase.
"Since joining the Russian network's American channel, Ms. Martin has returned again and again to the argument that the American government could have fabricated the terrorist attacks as a pretext for war," he writes.
