Sentence examples for pretext of using from inspiring English sources

A police spokesman, Detective Robert Price, said the incident began at 6 49 p.m. when two men entered the bar from an entrance on Trinity Place on the pretext of using the bathroom, drew handguns and announced a holdup.

On the pretext of using the bathroom, Lotter went into the bedroom and stole a.380-calibre semi-automatic handgun that Bennett kept in a dresser drawer; on the way out of the house, Lotter stopped to feel up Amy Bennett.

"When we hold people in secret detention for unspecified lengths of time on the grounds that they are part of a terrorist apparatus," he said, "we are doing what we criticize countries all over the world for doing -- of using the pretext of combating terrorism to hold people of different political views for unlimited periods of time".

Critics like Kilicdaroglu accuse Erdoğan of using the pretext of the failed coup to effectively carry out a second coup and grab more control.

About a dozen orders are repudiated as heretical and are accused of using religious pretexts to indulge in antisocial behaviour.

It has accused him of using religion as a pretext for dangerous separatism.

Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has accused Russia of using humanitarian grounds as a pretext for military intervention.

He also accused Russia of using anti-IS operations as a pretext to help Assad.

"Under the pretext of defending human rights," he answered, accusing the US, Britain and France of using talk of Syrians' rights to "encourage terrorist intervention".

The two US officials said the CIA station chief in Libya compiled intelligence reports from eyewitnesses within 24 hours of the assault on the consulate that indicated militants had launched the violence, using the pretext of demonstrations against US facilities in Egypt against the film to cover their intent.

When Portugal decriminalized, UN member states were just years removed from a 1998 special session of the General Assembly that convened under the fanciful pretext of eliminating drug use worldwide.