The pretext for the raid — which silenced the channel — was a government claim that Imedi was fomenting unrest when it broadcast a statement by one of its founders, Badri Patarkatsishvili, promising to topple the government of President Mikheil Saakashvili.
This was one of the pretexts for Kristallnacht, which erupted two days later.
Role-playing is the pretext for Ann Marie Tornabene's elaborate tableaus, which, like soft-core versions of Joel Peter Witkin's work, challenge notions of beauty and good taste.
It becomes the pretext upon which new pretenses are built, aiming at the further, if often self-contradictory, refinement of a knowledge that is never, and will probably never be achieved for certain.
Recall the pretext under which we invaded Iraq?
This provided the pretext for a virulent press campaign, in which he was subjected to hostile demonstrations in England and during his second, and last, tour of the United States.
Fiddling with the face was a confidence booster, which was the pretext for getting Juvederm.
The document, released by court order last month in response to requests from the activists, shows that an undercover special agent was intent on luring people into saying ominous things about "revolution" and, sometimes, some of these people indulged her, which provided the pretext for legally harassing a group known to oppose US policy at home and abroad.
No weapons of mass destruction, the existence of which were used as the pretext for war, were found in Iraq.
If Bush is reëlected, the anticipated reform of the Alternative Minimum Tax, which Republicans in Congress loathe, may well serve as the pretext for this agenda.
The pretext for much of Shanghai's recent change, of course, is the hosting of the ongoing 2010 Expo, an event for which the city has spent untold billions.
