The closures continued for weeks, and the explanations increasingly sounded like pretexts.
It might sound like the pretext for a jolly in the sun but Football League chairman Greg Clarke is optimistic that some important decisions will be taken during the get-together to help safeguard the future of his clubs.
Apologizing for other people's nasty looks sounds like a pretext for getting back in touch with your dreamboat, which is natural but ill-advised.
His recent declaration that he opposes probing into areas that would "harm the state" sounds like a transparent pretext for circumscribing further investigation.
This sounds like a wonderful pretext for a book, and it is: Ambrosio is a heck of a teller, a natural ham (nicely complementing his artisanal cheese) whose fits of emotion and loquacity are delightfully barmy.
Suggestions that it be forsaken sounded to many like a pretext for getting rid of the city's black majority.
But they do not, because they are not trying to make a serious intellectual argument, but rather are abusing a sound economic principle to find a pretext for bankrupting gun manufacturers, who are just providing legal goods that consumers want to purchase.
If the government's six-degrees-of-separation logic and bar-talk investigation of Koch sounds sketchy, it should: grand juries have been used for decades as pretext for gathering information not necessarily about crimes but about the actions of social movements, including the Black Panthers, environmentalists, and antiwar activists.
If the government's six-degrees-of-separation logic and bar-talk investigation of Koch sounds sketchy, it should: grand juries have been used for decades as pretext for gathering information not necessarily about crimes but about the actions of social movements including the Black Panthers, environmentalists, and antiwar activists.
One girl Dr. Boyd knows made her Facebook page sound as if she were depressed so that she could use her mental state as a pretext for breaking up with a boyfriend.
Sounds familiar, but the story and the selection of nine songs are pretty much a pretext for an all-out dance fling that takes place in what looks like a bar.
