Sentence examples for pretext upon which from inspiring English sources
Clearly, the petition has given sections of the worldwide media a pretext upon which to hang a negative Kanye story.
It becomes the pretext upon which new pretenses are built, aiming at the further, if often self-contradictory, refinement of a knowledge that is never, and will probably never be achieved for certain.
Upon which they ceased firing.
Upon which he reacted "oh"!
Indeed, he has been casting around for an attractive pretext on which to walk out.
That was the event — or pretext — under which the United States went to war with Spain over Cuba, an intervention for which The Journal agitated relentlessly.
They never did find a pretext on which to proscribe the organisation and struggled to work out how to silence Morel.
Recall the pretext under which we invaded Iraq?
She was warned, however, that the summons was a pretext on which to capture her and thereby facilitate Lady Jane's accession to the throne.
For many political Leftists, environmentalism is merely a pretext through which private property and capitalism can be regulated, strangled, and finally replaced with totalitarian government ownership of everything.
