If this lack of interest is confirmed in the coming days, it will prove what should have been evident all along -- that the Sharon government seeks pretexts to avoid a political process, not ways to renew it.
In fact, knowing that the church could not comply, he sought a pretext for charging it with refusal to obey laws and, at the same time, discrediting it in the eyes of the people for alleged callousness to human suffering.
Diefenbaker sought a pretext for a new election.
An editorial in the Communist Party newspaper charged that some American officials were seeking a pretext to start a Korean war and threatened that "not a single soldier" would survive "if the U.S. imperialists unleash a new war".
At first, some people on Wall Street feared that the Obama Administration was simply seeking a pretext for taking over embattled firms like Citigroup and Bank of America, as liberal Democrats had urged.
He said that in demanding stringent new terms for the inspections, the United States was not interested in discovering hidden weapons programs, as it claimed, but in seeking a pretext for a new war with Iraq that would allow President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain to pursue their declared aim of "regime change".
The Ukrainian government and many in the West worry that Russia is seeking a pretext for a military intervention in eastern Ukraine.
The source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, added that the al-Qaeda proxy had been seeking a pretext to go after foreign-backed forces for some time.
The forces that ambushed the nomination are those that, no matter who is president or who is secretary of defense, will continue to press for war with Iran, will work to override constitutional checks against torture and rendition, will seek a pretext to re-ignite the Cold War, and will abort the creation of an independent Palestine.
But it is very difficult, and indeed impossible, that a thousand persons should agree in any such action; it being difficult for them to concert so complicated a design, and still more difficult for them to execute it; while each seeks a pretext to free himself of the trouble and expense, and would lay the whole burden on others (Hume 1739, 3.2.7).
