Sentence examples for the pretext of from inspiring English sources
This is on the pretext of health and safety.
A coup might be a military one, under the pretext of stopping violence escalating in Bangkok.
It gave police officers an excuse to arrest African-Americans on the pretext of intoxication.
The main charge was that practitioners indulged in sexual debauchery under the pretext of spirituality.
After a moment, he slipped off again, under the pretext of putting the children to bed.
"Now it is Libya's turn, under the pretext of protecting civilians.
In 882, using the pretext of a holy war against the Byzantine Empire, he annexed Syria.
Talks about it were repeatedly called off, often on the pretext of fresh terrorist attacks.
" 'I lived for men on the pretext of living for God...,' the priest says.
More ominously, another network, TV-6, was shut in January on the pretext of insolvency.
Would this principle also not apply to the pretext of W.M.D.'s in Iraq?
