Sentence examples for pretext for it from inspiring English sources

At the time "there was no reason not to approve it," Mr. Barak said, but he added, "It wasn't the reason for the whole eruption, but it supplied a good pretext for it, I admit".

The Yanukovych regime is telling Ukrainians that Europe was never serious about closer relations, and that its concerns about human rights and Ms Tymoshenko are just pretexts for it to shun the country.Not all is lost.

He and fellow Republican senator Ben Sasse say in a letter that they find Robert Lighthizer's criticism of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) "alarming" and point out that the US should have an envoy "who will renegotiate Nafta in order to build on its successes, not as a pretext for unraveling it".

In fact, knowing that the church could not comply, he sought a pretext for charging it with refusal to obey laws and, at the same time, discrediting it in the eyes of the people for alleged callousness to human suffering.

That's his pretext for socking it to Wisconsin's public unions.

The party largely considers the accusations a pretext for what it has described as a witch hunt against government opponents.

Whoever was behind the terrorist bombs that were the pretext for starting it, the effects on the Kremlin's fortunes are indisputable.

That leads some to suspect that his ultimate objective is to create a pretext for protectionism.As it is, Mr Sarkozy's carbon tax has many exemptions.

To provide a pretext for resuming it, the two leaders decided to form a vaguely-defined joint "anti-terrorism institutional mechanism".

The pretext for moving it was to protect public health (prompted by concerns about the animal origins of SARS the respiratory disease and bird flu), improve traffic conditions and give the animals more space.

Germany used the event as the pretext for its invasion of Poland.