Sentence examples for some pretext for from inspiring English sources

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.

I greatly fear that the Bush administration will find some pretext for military action in order to set up an American-led government and gain control of Iraq's vast oil deposits.

Supreme wants to be a community center for skaters, so they want people to come, and to have some pretext for being in there looking at the clothes.

As long as they can come up with some excuse, some pretext, for pulling someone over, you can then begin a fishing expedition for drugs.

Now all they had to do was set up a meeting (at which Riquelme and the Spanish journalist wanted to be present) on some pretext, whatever — for example, an interview for an Argentine newspaper, with a surprise ending.

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".

One of the films, "Innocence of Muslims," an amateurish YouTube video, had sparked protests earlier that month and was cited, by some, as a pretext for the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya.

The photographs are in some cases merely a pretext for a collage about a wedding or a barbecue.

Prince Bandar's assertion — that the talk of peace was merely a pretext for some hard selling — is difficult to dismiss.

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

The subjective-perspective gimmick is usually constraining, but in "Enter the Void" it becomes a pretext for some highly fanciful (and digitally abetted) maneuvers, since the camera is standing in for a ghostly presence unimpeded by physical laws.