Sentence examples for pretext for pushing from inspiring English sources

But the foreign minister was never involved in the nuclear negotiations, a factor that led some analysts to dismiss the nuclear issue as a pretext for pushing him out.

But what if agribusinesses use efficiency arguments as a pretext for pushing forward high-tech farming solutions, asks Hall, who claims something similar is unfolding in India's Maharashtra state at present.

Some Pentagon officials have suggested that accusations that some Army officials inappropriately lobbied Congress after learning last week of Mr. Rumsfeld's intentions could provide the pretext for pushing Army Secretary Thomas E. White out of his job.

In recent days, a tenured communications professor at Florida Atlantic University, James Tracy, wrote several blog posts that suggested the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown may well have been a staged event with actors hired by the Obama administration and orchestrated to provide a pretext for pushing gun control.

While al Qaeda might have anticipated baiting us into a draining war in Afghanistan, could the terrorists possibly have dared to dream of the total non sequitur that came next: Bush using 9/11 as a pretext for pushing us into a second reputation-ruining quagmire in Iraq?

But that could be even worse for conservatives: should the refinancing programme fail or another financial institution collapse, some Republicans worry, the Democrats will have a pretext to push for more aggressive and more expensive intervention in the housing market.A newly riled right might not be able to stop the Democrats.

In Yugoslavia itself, Predrag Simic, an adviser on foreign affairs to the Serbian Renewal Movement, said that Mr. Bush's proposal is "another indication of American capriciousness in foreign affairs" and will only give the Kosovar Albanians a "new pretext to push for independence as soon as possible".

They say the commission is simply a pretext for Kobach, who has pushed restrictive voting policies in Kansas and exaggerated cases of voter fraud, and Trump to build a foundation for further voter suppression efforts, which several commission members have supported in the past.

Naureen Shah, director of Amnesty International USA's security and human rights programme, acknowledged the need for governments to assess their approach in the aftermath of major attacks but said: "What we don't want to see is government using the Paris attacks as a pretext for extending surveillance authorities or pushing back against reforms that even the government acknowledged as necessary".

Loussikian's article provided the impetus, or the pretext, for a remarkable campaign against the university.

Gangster Rap may have been an economic boom, but it seriously undermined whatever revolutionary potential might have existed in an exile nation of disenfranchised black youth, while giving the State all the pretext it needed to push for more and more infiltration, disruption, and repression.