Sentence examples for pretexts not from inspiring English sources

Mr Yettaw's hapless intrusion simply provides them with the flimsiest of pretexts not to.

"They say, 'We are not receiving complaints,' or 'The complaints that we are seeing are not well formed.' They find pretexts not to prosecute".

Pretexting, not the law, is clearly a violation of privacy.

Kosovo was a pretext, not a central factor, he says.

"I hope the Israeli government will not use what is happening as a pretext not to implement the third phase of redeployment or to release more prisoners".

Allowing South Korea to reprocess or enrich the fuel, the United States fears, would set a precedent for other nations and give North Korea a pretext not to abandon its nuclear weapons program.

Voicing American support for a resolution condemning the violence used by the Syrian government against its own people, Susan E. Rice, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, said Wednesday that some countries on the Security Council were disingenuously using Libya as a pretext not to pass a resolution on Syria.

The first production of this opera served as the pretext not only for conspiracy theories by musicians faithful to Charpentier and hostile to Lully's ascendancy in French music (Lully was of Italian origin and had been running the Royal Academy of Music since 1672), but also for sarcastic writings from Boileau, who despised Quinault, the author of the libretto.

The pretexts do not need to be very plausible, either: if someone went to law school, and that turned out badly, then someone must be to blame, and preferably "a living being upon whom he can release his emotions".

Once again, that was the pretext, but not the actual cause.

I assumed that "unable to run" referred to the auto-accident injury that had been his pretext for not running the Cowtown Marathon.