Sentence examples for pretext of war from inspiring English sources

Some American officials think that the Pakistanis have used the pretext of war to imprison members of the Baluch nationalist opposition that has fought for generations to separate from Pakistan.

Frustrated in her attempts at reform, Catherine seized the pretext of war with Turkey in 1768 to change her policy; henceforth, emphasis would be placed above all on national grandeur.

Image the impact of that statement on an impressionable young man fleeing a region where people of different religion were murdering each other with abandon under the pretext of war.

Many African despots have used the pretext of the war on terror to crush legitimate opposition groups, and this war has also given many African extremist groups a cause to fight for.

Now to have the entire pretext of this war being called into question, that makes it all worse".

However, he failed to stop the tide of oppression that his brother had spread on the pretext of the war on terror.

"For years, our people are being killed and their houses are being destroyed under the pretext of the war on terror".

"For years our people have been killed and their homes destroyed under the pretext of a war on terror".

In 1563 Bayinnaung took as a pretext for war the refusal of the Siamese to acknowledge his suzerainty.

No weapons of mass destruction, the existence of which were used as the pretext for war, were found in Iraq.

The new doctrine of revenge as a legal pretext for war alarms many.