The West should use the dodgy election as a pretext for political change.
"We are going to really jam Qaddafi over this, but there is no pretext for regime change," the Saudi official said.
For example, a Cabinet Office paper from March 2002 set out two options: one was to try to use the UN and a threat of force to try to disarm Iraq of WMD; the other was to use WMD as a pretext for regime change.
By causing fear and uncertainty, the blasts would serve as a pretext for personnel changes and a strengthening of the Kremlin's powers.
Moreover, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict "has been a cause and a pretext for delaying democratic change," contended Ms. Khalaf Hunaidi, who was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents.
The pretext for the cuts and structural changes being opposed is an unprecedented crisis in the university's finances – including a deficit rumoured to be up to €12m or €13m, according to an internal letter sent by a professor.
But several former O.R.R. officials describe the policy change as a pretext for detaining immigrant teens longer, and forestalling their release into the United States.
Regime change becomes a pretext for settling personal scores; people move into homes vacated by purged neighbours, conniving against their "rehabilitation" with each blast of glasnost.
The pretext for much of Shanghai's recent change, of course, is the hosting of the ongoing 2010 Expo, an event for which the city has spent untold billions.
Truman's awkwardness, Gordin writes, "gave Stalin an excellent pretext to change his policy of cooperation with the West".
