The regime released her in 1995, but it has re-arrested and imprisoned her several times since then on various pretexts, including posing a threat to state security, and claimed to be taking her into "protective custody" after deadly attacks on her own supporters.
Another source close to the production said that "several singers used the pretext of 'unsingable' to try to quit," eager to disassociate themselves from a production that had begun to exhibit signs of political fallout that were unlikely to have stemmed from simple logistical difficulties.
Christmas should be a gastronomic pleasure, not just a pretext for eating several thousand calories.
Hastrel worried that the officers could no longer command the obedience of the troops, and recounted in his journal: "The reception of the tri-color occasioned a scene of insubordination, which deprived us of several officers and served as a pretext to the revolutionaries to inspire defiance among the soldiers.
Several weeks later, the team found a pretext to covertly slip him LSD again, this time at more than twice the first dose.
Using the pretext of traditions and culture on several occasions, the right to marry out of choice, the right to practise religion, etc., are curbed.
The implementation of a European technical framework, which patients and the industry have been awaiting for several years now, must not serve as a pretext for imposing any particular ideological point of view.
But several former O.R.R. officials describe the policy change as a pretext for detaining immigrant teens longer, and forestalling their release into the United States.
During the day, several German SS men were lured to workshops on a variety of pretexts, such as being fitted for new boots or expensive clothes.
"If only we could find a pretext, though a pretext can always be found," they sing.When the curtain stayed down for several minutes after the third act, at the point when Stalin had walked out, one began to wonder whether the show had perhaps been banned again.
