Sentence examples for pretext for taking from inspiring English sources

After realizing he could not suppress the rebellion, he found a pretext for taking up arms.

What if Putin ordered this attack to make Russia seem unstable under Medvedev, as a pretext for taking back control?

Some analysts would leave it there and say that you don't need to get into the nature of conservative ideology; that ideology is merely a pretext for taking from the poor and giving to the rich.

At first, some people on Wall Street feared that the Obama Administration was simply seeking a pretext for taking over embattled firms like Citigroup and Bank of America, as liberal Democrats had urged.

That body in 2005 told the Dominican Republic that it could not use the nationality of parents as pretext for taking citizenship from their children.

Macartney found d'Estaing's proposed articles "not merely unprecedented and humiliating, but so ensnaring and uncertain in their nature, extent, and aim that they might at any time supply a pretext for taking away the lives, together with the fortunes, of the capitulants".

Bangladesh's record in this respect is dire (see chart), providing the generals with one of their main pretexts for taking power.

But Shawky spends as much screen time implicating the betrayals and massacres perpetrated on weaker and unarmed Muslim populations by less formidable Jihadi antagonists who used the threat of impending Crusader assaults as pretexts for taking possession of attractive principalities and deposing their dynasties.

The latest of these is the notion, published by a former government consultant named Jossef Badansky, that alleges that the white house has conspired with Al Qaeda forces in Syria to conduct the poison gas attack on the Damascus suburb and then attempt to frame Assad to create a pretext for Obama to take America to intervene in the civil war on behalf of the Muslim radical terrorists.

"This is just pretext to take down a president who was elected by 54 million people.

One of the great recent books about movies, Jordan Mintzer's book of interviews with James Gray (augmented by discussion with his artistic collaborators), was the pretext for a superb event that took place last night at the Museum of the Moving Image — a screening of Gray's 1999 film "The Yards," followed by a discussion with Gray moderated by David Schwartz, the museum's chief curator.