Sentence examples for pretext for that from inspiring English sources

"There has been completely no pretext for that," he said.

What is "discouraging" and "frustrating" to Trump is not simply the fact that the outcome he wants — an investigation into Clinton for whatever fake scandal might provide the pretext for that to happen — isn't taking place.

The pretext for that deportation is public health: the city's canine population is widely infected with dog flu, which can be transmitted to humans, as well as with snout fever.

(There's a mythic backstory of the Kobayashi clan's ancient hatred for dogs). The pretext for that deportation is public health: the city's canine population is widely infected with dog flu, which can be transmitted to humans, as well as with snout fever.

The MPs who stood by and watched their leader invade a sovereign country and did nothing to hold him to account when the pretext for that invasion was proved to be flawed, now turn their second-rate, feckless minds to the hunting ban, in the belief that they are doing something to improve the moral decency of the country.

This, in turn, neutralized Litvinenko's revelation that the Russian apartment bombings (which were Putin's pretext for that genocide) had been the work of Putin himself.

Yet last week, the Justice Department asked for another delay in releasing legal opinions that provided a legal pretext for interrogations that ranged from merely illegal to outright torture.

The memos provided a legal pretext for interrogations that ranged from merely illegal to outright torture.

What we are witnessing, instead, is mostly an exercise in old-fashioned power politics, with a stone-dumb video as a pretext for violence that would have been unleashed on some other excuse.

In a drama that could gallop along in equine imagery – all those fillies and nags – she is herself a Trojan horse, a pretext for war that does not stand up much better than weapons of mass destruction.

The RUF's pretext for revolution, that the governing class were crooks, was quite true.To forestall another war, they should change their ways.