Sentence examples for pretexts for something from inspiring English sources

It's never a good idea to rank absolute values in relative terms, or reflexively downgrade claims on their behalf by asserting that they are simply pretexts for something else.

Ezzeddin seemed to concede that the Hezbollah campaign to rid Shebaa of Israeli troops is a pretext for something larger.

"So his speech was a pretext for something else – a pretext to fight peaceful protesters who want Morsi to come back".

The critical thing is that fostering civilized behavior should be a priority up front in the design of our foreign policy, not an afterthought, a sop to bleeding hearts, or a pretext for something else.

For the poor, the American police are too often not guardians, but incarceration expeditors, using routine pedestrian and vehicle stops as a pretext for finding something bigger that can land someone in lockup.

And she often turns the light on when she comes to bed (she usually goes after me) on the pretext of looking for something or other.

If indeed governments are given the power to take from those who have established themselves, under the pretext of building something "for public use" (which in reality is a private development of sorts), it strikes me that private developments, and not public ones, are being supported in this ruling.

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.