Sentence examples for provide a pretext for from inspiring English sources

This upheaval could provide a pretext for Mr Putin to grab it.

Last week's massacre could provide a pretext for all the powers in the Great Lakes region to behave worse.

It is now clear that the aim of Rosenstein's memo was simply to provide a pretext for Comey's firing.

Some had hoped the Cambodian coup might provide a pretext for delaying expansion for all three applicants, thereby keeping the Myanmar junta waiting.

This would then provide a pretext for the SNP to say that the constitutional relationship with the UK had changed enough to justify a second independence referendum.

To provide a pretext for resuming it, the two leaders decided to form a vaguely-defined joint "anti-terrorism institutional mechanism".

As for Bush's speech, its principal merit was that it provided a pretext for Webb's.

The 1997 letter, he said in a statement, "provided a pretext for some to avoid full cooperation with the Irish civil authorities".

And the scant text, by Ms. Moss herself, provides a pretext for the detonation of tiny bombshells about her scandal-prone life.

Whatever the outcome, the debate over Cuba has provided a pretext for left-wing leaders — both fresh faces and old stalwarts — to take aim at the United States.

In cases where husbands have died, widows are often blamed, providing a pretext for relatives of the deceased to deny them the right to inherit family assets.