In 2001, Fidel Castro criticized that covenant, saying it "could serve as a weapon and a pretext for imperialism to try to divide and fracture the workers, create artificial unions, and decrease their political and social power and influence".
After realizing he could not suppress the rebellion, he found a pretext for taking up arms.
"That's the obvious and inevitable result of a process where you have deputies who simply stop people on a pretext and then try to develop probable cause" to search for drugs, he told members of the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission.
Their lawyers say the charge is a pretext for holding the Kimeses while investigators try to link them to the disappearance of their landlady, Irene Silverman, 82.
State television doesn't even show images of Tahrir Square, and it emphasizes the chaos of recent days — perhaps trying to create a pretext for a crackdown.
That Hong Kong would ask for more information about his identity demonstrates that it was simply trying to create a pretext for not acting on the provisional arrest request," a spokeswoman said.
The Russian government blamed the rebels, accusing them of trying to create a pretext for Western intervention; at the same time, the Russians urged Assad to coöperate with U.N. inspectors, who are inside the country.
Mr Hague said Moscow's "immediate goal" was to disrupt Ukraine's presidential election on 25 May, "although of course they might also be trying to provide a pretext for intervention".
But, even with the available pretexts, he never tried to interview his subjects for their obit.
But many developing countries remain intensely suspicious of such agreements, fearing that the West may try to find a pretext for closing off their import markets.
