Sentence examples for pretext to change from inspiring English sources

Truman's awkwardness, Gordin writes, "gave Stalin an excellent pretext to change his policy of cooperation with the West".

Access to oil by an oligarchy of powerful capitalists is the key, a pretext to change the regime.

The authorities used this as a pretext to charge Goldman with planning McKinley's assassination.

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.

Some have photographic subjects, some have photographic pretexts -- in this case both of these are in New York -- and some are more interested in what they can do to change, extend, disguise or radicalize the medium.

The court, after rehearsing a number of earlier decisions, observed that "the First Amendment does not require an educator to change the assignment to suit the student's opinion," as long as the assignment has a reasonable relationship "to legitimate pedagogical goals" and as long as the policy of no exemptions was applied evenly and was not a pretext for discrimination.

This scenario presupposes that he can paralyse Islamabad for several days running, or a bloody attack of some sort takes place, and the military is willing to use this mayhem as a pretext to force a change of government.

He expressed some optimism that the government would seize the accumulation of gloomy statistical news as a pretext to push through changes in the rigid labor market and costly welfare system.

On the other hand, governments may use such events as a pretext to make big changes quickly, all too often enriching the few while ignoring the voices of the poor and disenfranchised.

ACCORDING to a person who has conferred with one of HealthSouth's senior executives, the management team had decided to use the Medicare changes as a pretext to deflate HealthSouth's lofty profit expectations; the executives overestimated the impact of the changes on earnings.

The new legislation was guaranteed by the Russian Empire, giving it another pretext to interfere in Commonwealth politics if the legislation was changed.