China and Russia had argued that the term established a pretext for sanctions, which they both oppose.
Never fully dramatically integrated, it functions as a pretext for actions (which is not the same thing).
This was one of the pretexts for Kristallnacht, which erupted two days later.
The children devise a series of do-gooding schemes that are pretexts for adventures which usually cause fire, flood, injury or other havoc.
Indeed, he has been casting around for an attractive pretext on which to walk out.
That seems fine, and provides yet another essay-worthy pretext under which it's O.K. for the millionth time to stare at the four cartoony circles that were Marilyn's breasts and eyes.
The pretext for the raid — which silenced the channel — was a government claim that Imedi was fomenting unrest when it broadcast a statement by one of its founders, Badri Patarkatsishvili, promising to topple the government of President Mikheil Saakashvili.
For many political Leftists, environmentalism is merely a pretext through which private property and capitalism can be regulated, strangled, and finally replaced with totalitarian government ownership of everything.
It becomes the pretext upon which new pretenses are built, aiming at the further, if often self-contradictory, refinement of a knowledge that is never, and will probably never be achieved for certain.
Recall the pretext under which we invaded Iraq?
That was the event — or pretext — under which the United States went to war with Spain over Cuba, an intervention for which The Journal agitated relentlessly.
