Sentence examples for pretext for running from inspiring English sources

"From where I sit, it's hard to see that as anything but a pretext for running out the clock and preserving the status quo".

I assumed that "unable to run" referred to the auto-accident injury that had been his pretext for not running the Cowtown Marathon.

"My Paris gallery was just the pretext for me to go out and find paintings.

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

Disney is using this summer's football World Cup as its pretext for cutting short Alice's theatrical run.

Russia, China and Cuba, the dissident votes, called the move a pretext for laying the groundwork for foreign intervention.

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

Sycamore countersued, saying that the action brought against them was concocted to cover up Seven Seas having run out of money for the film, and as "pretext" for them pulling out of the deal.

Mike runs through the Reagan era, arguing that the war on drugs was a pretext for police violence in general and, more specifically, "doing that surveillance on Mr. Michael Render".

As a result, Bush is now forced to run around the Arabian states along the Persian Gulf in an effort to build an anti-Iranian alliance and find a pretext for keeping a strategic presence in the region.

Defenders of the current rules system also say that the industry is capable of fixing itself in the long run, that the crisis will eventually subside and thus should not be used as a pretext for encouraging further deal-making.