Sentence examples for pretexts for from inspiring English sources

He could have constructed earlier pretexts for invasion.

They are pretexts for the authentic errand of being outside.

The Armenians' role in the disaster became one of the pretexts for the genocide.

This was one of the pretexts for Kristallnacht, which erupted two days later.

I wasn't raised on fairytales – except as plot pretexts for pantos – but on musicals.

"The legal quibbling, precautions and pretexts for insufficient action are not acceptable".

Certainly they shouldn't be pretexts for racially profiled attacks on asylum seekers.

Restored films and directors' cuts are too often a fraud, pretexts for commercial rerelease.

In both cases, these threats were fictional, but they made good pretexts for starting wars of conquest.

The funerals have become such money makers that the pretexts for them are sometimes a bit thin, Mr. Ampah said.

Prosecutors in at least one case used a cheat sheet with pretexts for striking black jurors without mentioning race.