Sentence examples for pretext for his from inspiring English sources

As a means of deception, as a social disguise, as a pretext for his appearance.

Such actions only supply Mr. Milosevic with a pretext for his own disruptive efforts.

This not only gives Fidel Castro a "rhetorical pretext" for his actions but also gives dissidents a veneer of illegitimacy.

But if he had had it in mind to show flexibility, he can now claim a pretext for his government continuing as cussed as ever.

In about 60 they invited Ariovistus, king of a German tribe, to aid them against their old rivals, the Aedui, giving Caesar a pretext for his Gallic Wars.

But although the purportedly secret information was the pretext for his detention, the K.G.B. interrogation soon turned to his contacts with the human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky.

"All the pretexts for his release today are unacceptable, and no one can believe it," said Salama Ahmed Salama, editor of an independent daily newspaper, Shorouq.

Democratic norms erode as the president, inventing insulting pretexts for his actions, uses his authority over access to classified information to bully and punish critics and would-be critics.

In a telephone interview from London, where he arrived early today, Mr. Schori said the Zimbabwean government knew of his appointment in advance and was simply concocting "false pretexts" for his expulsion.

She was also inspired by Rilke and inserted lines from his poetry ("Even his downfall was for him only a pretext for achieving his final birth") in the score.

The war was, in fact, a considerable victory for Kim Il Sung, but only domestically, insofar as it provided him with a pretext for tightening his control of the Party and the Party's control of every aspect of his subjects' existence.