Sentence examples for some pretext from inspiring English sources

At the last minute, on some pretext, he replaced Bakst with a Russian modernist, Léopold Survage.

Ibru managed to obtain Mrs Ferdinand's phone number and would phone her under some pretext, eventually asking after her son.

The government has also started various investigations of Yunus and his finances and taxes, and his supporters fear that he might be arrested on some pretext or another.

During previous spells of "freedom", it has ignored her for a while, gradually tightened restrictions on her, and then found some pretext to lock her up again.

Violet sees a friend in a nearby car and confesses that she isn't a runaway but had to invent some pretext for knocking on Philip's door.

They leased a cottage in Woodside, got Willie out there on some pretext one afternoon in May, 1897, and murdered him.

At this point, with some invented pretext, you simply pull out an ounce of herb and some rolling papers, lay them on a table, and ask the subject if he knows how to roll a joint.

South Africa belongs to them and he is there on some shaky pretext, a historical misunderstanding.

All through the late spring, Edgeworth and Dolan were hearing stories about the Rove forces staging credentials challenges at state and regional conventions, using some technical pretext.

Fearing that he would be kidnapped or "disappeared" in Syria under some false pretext, Mr. Omar made a video, which he posted on YouTube, to establish that he had defected.

The Palestinian state envisioned by President Bush, they suggest, would be undermined by extremists, who "will denounce the ministate as a betrayal of the Palestinian cause" or "find some other pretext for refusing ever to make peace with Israel".