Sentence examples for pretext provided from inspiring English sources

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"The pretext provided this time was too far-fetched even for the Communist party," he wrote.

Her reasonable defence, that as a prisoner she was in no position to fend off uninvited visitors, was brushed aside by the court.The pretext provided by the hapless visitor, John Yettaw, a 54-year-old Mormon, may have been fortuitous.

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The children, brought to the state under the pretext of providing them schooling, were kept for months with inadequate food and inhumane living conditions, the report said.

"These mass evictions have been carried out under the pretext of providing better services and improving the livelihoods of the communities," says the letter.

In April, nurses were able to gain access to the compound under the pretext of providing a childhood hepatitis B vaccine.

He has never abandoned belief in the need for government action, and he regards Friedrich Hayek's claim that countries go totalitarian when governments acquire power under the pretext of providing benefits for their citizens as political and historical nonsense.

The regulatory authority's guidelines note: "Foreign channels depict their own cultures, and on the pretext of providing entertainment, seek to confuse, subvert and change the social values of the younger generations in foreign lands.

"However," it goes on, "it is important that there not be - under the pretext of providing assistance - a disorganised rush to join the Resistance which would have the effect of leaving it paralysed.

"You do such things either to exert pressure or to enter," Sikorski said, citing indications that Russian forces might be deployed across the border under the pretext of providing humanitarian aid to the largely Russian-speaking population in the embattled Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

A woman whose husband died is forced to get married to another man from the family of the deceased husband on the pretext of providing security to dependent survivors as well as preserving the lineage.

In Mombasa, demonstrations were organized against the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) research center in Kilifi, a center for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, and later calling for the closure of KEMRI: 'how can a state institution be involved on the pretext of providing counseling services to these criminals?' (23).

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