Sentence examples for pretext to do from inspiring English sources

"This may be used, may be manipulated, used as a pretext to do something," he said.

Washington, he declared, wants a "pretext to do in Iraq and Syria what it already does in Pakistan — bomb anywhere without authorization".

He added the US was seeking seeking a "pretext to do in Iraq and Syria what it already does in Pakistan - bomb anywhere without authorisation".

So, you have a car up on blocks on your front driveway, or maybe someone thinks you're violating the occupancy limits on your rental property, and that provides the police with the pretext to do a mini-immigration sweep.

What other country's regional elections get so much attention?" Of course, these were rhetorical questions, for we both know full well the answer – because the U.S. government wants to destroy Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution, and it is looking for any pretext to do so.

That makes him a great figurehead for a land in which grown men and women use the flimsiest of historic pretexts to do things like chasing cheeses downhill or charming the worms from the ground with song.

The oil-for-food scandal could provide a splendid pretext for everybody to do nothing.

"Every person I worked for in the military took an oath to defend the constitution, so without any pretext or serious reason to do so, imposing martial law in places where soldiers are from would absolutely generate blowback," Floyd said.

That was more than enough pretext to allow the FBI to do what they long wanted: arrest Brown.

The plaintiffs argue that a Department of Justice request to add the question was a pretext and that Ross had wanted to do so even before DOJ made the request.

Mr. Sehgal also said law enforcement agencies could shutter polling stations where opposition candidates were expected to do well on the pretext that there were disturbances.