Sentence examples for provides a pretext from inspiring English sources

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

Others, including Edelio's mother, argue that his kidnap provides a pretext for the Combined Task Force (FTC) – the body set up by President Horacio Cartes to combat the EPP – to hold back from eliminating the group, and continue to line their pockets with public money.

Yet regardless of whether she is a creature or a thing, Lambskin provides a pretext for Boxer to satirize one of Freud's biggest embarrassments -- his relationship with his fellow physician Wilhelm Fliess, who linked the nose to sexual function and was often excessively eager to operate on it.

In Ms. Guinness's case, it also provides a pretext for the enactment of a continuing commentary on what it means to perform the public role of a woman; as a kind of 21st-century geisha, she finds herself with the means to bypass traditional systems of patronage and the wit to mount a lively, unorthodox theater of womanliness solely to amuse herself.

"The arrest and trial of human rights activists and lawyers – many of them women – on vaguely worded allegations is about the security forces perpetuating the climate of crisis that followed the 2009 presidential election, the outcome of which was disputed, and provides a pretext for the now year-long campaign targeting human rights groups, activists and lawyers," a statement said.

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.

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

The Guinean committee was established "to provide a pretext to illegally seize our assets in Guinea", the company states.

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

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.