Sentence examples similar to slight pretext from inspiring English sources

"On the slightest pretext, they execute people".

She would hit Eva and explode into rages on the slightest pretext.

Major Shamad described the Americans on the Syrian border as jumpy and afraid, firing on the slightest pretext.

You can bet that after all the fuss with Quick, the police would have pressed charges on the slightest pretext.

"Angela Gerekou has submitted her resignation for reasons of sensitivity and sensibility, so that there cannot be the slightest pretext to hurt the government," the statement said.

This is an era when people only need the slightest pretext to gather together in large numbers (witness festival season, or the massed response to the Olympics).

Stalin was afraid that Hitler would use the slightest pretext to launch an invasion, and warned his forces to do nothing provocative.

He has taken to seeing her on the slightest pretext; we know that they are going to fall in love, despite their different backgrounds.

But given the Corporation's propensity for diving into the archives on the slightest pretext, the afternoon was not half as misty-eyed as one would have wished.

Here we were viciously beaten every day on the slightest pretext, and the food went from very little to nearly nothing.

Americans could raise the Stars and Stripes in their yards and sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" on the slightest pretext, but Germans had forfeited such patriotism at Auschwitz.