Sentence examples for pretext for postponing from inspiring English sources

With parliamentary elections set to begin in just a week, television commentators were raising alarms even before the clashes erupted, that the military and security forces were not equipped to secure the polls, and many protestors said they feared that the military encouraged the strife as a pretext for postponing the election of a more legitimate body.

There is no excuse for postponing it.

* Does not include scores for postponed games.

The prison riots have been embarrassing to the new authorities, who have suggested that the riots are intended to create a sense of chaos in the country that might be used as a pretext to postpone Serbian elections scheduled for Dec. 23.

It creates space for manipulation and is an excellent pretext to postpone any real economic reform.

Though they lack concrete evidence, many Congolese posit that President Joseph Kabila, whose legal mandate expired two years ago, or his allies, orchestrated the attacks in an effort to destabilize Ituri as a pretext to postpone national elections that are scheduled for this December.

The country would get so inflamed that Scaf would have a pretext to postpone elections.

But for a long time authoritarian Muslim regimes have also used the conflict as a pretext to postpone reform and democracy at home.In principle, this difference of emphasis ought not to prevent the European Union and the United States from combining their efforts in the Middle East.

The taboo was a pretext for extortion.

It was the pretext for courtship.

Could there be a better pretext for a disaster movie?