Sentence examples for pretext to delay from inspiring English sources

If they don't want to abide by the Wye agreement, they create a security pretext to delay the process.

"Image is very important," Mr. Qaq added, suggesting that the lack of political clarity or a cohesive Palestinian government could even give Mr. Kerry cause — or a pretext — to delay his peace efforts.

Such reviews are fully consistent with the Superfund law, the controlling federal statute in this case, and are appropriate as long as they are not used as a phony pretext to delay or scuttle the plan.

"Some member countries are not interested in a quick enlargement and will use an Irish no vote as a pretext to delay," said Andris Kesteris, Latvia's chief European Union negotiator.

Tahir-ul-Qadri's march, which the religious leader says will turn Islamabad into Tahrir Square, is billed as a protest against corruption and a demand for clean elections, but many politicians fear the real purpose is to find a pretext to delay the polls.

They were demonstrating against a revision to the electoral code, which critics said was a pretext to delay the presidential vote.

Unfortunately, so long as the European Union fails to take a decisive strategic decision on the place of Ukraine in its foreign policy priorities, there will be endless pretexts to delay bringing Ukraine closer.

With Iran defiantly refusing to suspend its uranium-enrichment work, despite a string of UN resolutions calling on it to do so, Russia has found endless pretexts to delay the commissioning of a nuclear reactor that it has built at Bushehr, on Iran's southern coast, and to stall delivery of a sophisticated missile-defence system.

Ibrahim Pasha used a number of pretexts to delay the evacuation: problems with food supply or transport, or unforeseen difficulties in the strongholds' handover.

Previous Israeli governments consistently promised the Israeli High Court they would enforce the law against illegal outposts, but for the most part found legal pretexts to delay doing so.

A pretext to detain a foreign national?