The pretext he used for the invasion was that the Galatians had supplied soldiers to the Seleucid army at the Battle of Magnesia.
"We were duped," said the House speaker, Mike Milburn, a Republican and sponsor of the repeal bill, who said he thought that the arguments about medical use had been a pretext for encouraging recreational use and creating a path to full legalization.
Labour standards are often a pretext for domestic protectionism, and using trade sanctions to punish poor countries may harm poor workers more than help them.
"While courts are reluctant to question the sincerity of religious beliefs, religious claimants must get past the threshold question of whether there really is a religion involved rather than religion being used as pretext for other purposes, in this case, the use of marijuana". .
Chillingly, recalling the pretexts used for previous massacres by the army, the revered monarchy is being invoked.
Despite the crowd's elation, the incident has prompted concerns that the authorities could use it as a pretext for another crackdown, following the use of force seen the previous weekend.
This is the pretext for enforcing a police state using numberless surveillance scanners: hence the title, a twist on Corinthians, "we see as through a glass darkly" - though there is no great kinship with the Bergman film of that name.
The refusal of Elam in 647 to extradite an Aramaean prince was used as pretext for a new attack that drove deep into its territory.
Such fabrications, the anonymous blogger claimed, are being made under the direction of leading opposition figures like Aleksei Navalny and Boris Nemtsov, to be used as a pretext for people to flood the streets the day after the election and "feed us with revolutionary slogans, and scream that all has been stolen from them".
