But warfare in Angola and South African interference continued to provide pretexts to curb internal opposition.
Demanding jobs not only deliver alcoholics out of the worksite just in time for socially-acceptable drinking hours, but the stresses associated with long-hours work provide pretexts aplenty for "self-medicating" with booze.
In a twist, Thierry is required to spy on shoppers and employees alike, and his bosses want him to keep especially close tabs on his co-workers in order to provide pretexts for firings with cause, because of the near-impossibility of gaining official permission for layoffs on economic grounds.
Though slaves were formally emancipated by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution following the Civil War, Southern states subsequently passed Black Codes, "an array of interlocking laws essentially intended to criminalize black life", to restrict the economic independence of blacks and provide pretexts for jail terms.
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.
She is snatched at gunpoint and taken for questioning – Paxton's posing as an agent providing the pretext for her to be treated like a criminal.
The year of killing with impunity Reprints Related topics Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Asia Indonesia Politics SuhartoThe slaughter was a purge of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), accused of attempting a coup, providing the pretext for Suharto's power-grab.
There remains the possibility that the anthrax attack is unrelated to September 11th, except in providing a pretext for an act of evil, whose perpetrator might be a lone madman, like the Unabomber.
Hugh Gaitskell's chancellorship (1950-51) was brief, but he certainly made his mark by providing the pretext for the resignation of Nye Bevan (and others) over higher defence spending and the introduction of charges for spectacles and false teeth.
According to HP's claim, questionable transactions with a small group of resellers were designed "for the improper purpose of providing a pretext for the inappropriate or premature recognition of revenue".
