Sentence examples for pretext for halting from inspiring English sources

A senior Israeli official said, however, that if the investigation becomes a pretext for halting the deal for domestic political reasons, Israel would have reason for genuine concern.

He soon became a subject for scandal when, at a small cellar theatre club in Rome, the police stopped the performances of his "play", Christ '63, and accused those involved of obscenity, the Church's pretext for halting anything smelling of blasphemy.

9 Caesar, however, having anticipated that this would be the natural course of things for Vercingetorix, halted for two days in this locality; then he left the army on the pretext of assembling the supplementary levy and the cavalry.

The taboo was a pretext for extortion.

It was the pretext for courtship.

Could there be a better pretext for a disaster movie?

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.

The majority said they were pretext for restricting access.

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