Sentence examples for the pretext of combating from inspiring English sources

"We don't want a military presence in the Red Sea to become permanent under the pretext of combating piracy," Mr. Zaki said.

America's attitude encouraged north-east African powers to perpetuate their strategy of destabilisation, giving them licence to settle accounts with Somalia under the pretext of combating terrorism.

Phalanxes of police patrol the main streets and parks under the pretext of combating drug abuse, double parking and (in the case of Iran's women) offensively thick amounts of eyeliner.

At the February-March central committee plenum in 1937 many members actually questioned the rightness of the established course regarding mass repressions under the pretext of combating "two-facedness".

"When we hold people in secret detention for unspecified lengths of time on the grounds that they are part of a terrorist apparatus," he said, "we are doing what we criticize countries all over the world for doing -- of using the pretext of combating terrorism to hold people of different political views for unlimited periods of time".

Under the pretext of combating terrorism, the mass monitoring of personal communication invades everyone's privacy and establishes a true global vigilance regime.

The thing that's different from the days of overt discrimination is the phony pretext of combating voter fraud.

Texas's voter-identification law, plainly designed to prevent young, poor, and minority voters (i.e., Democrats) from casting ballots, is based on a similarly flimsy pretext of combating the nonexistent problem of in-person voter fraud.

Lately, drug companies have come to recognize the importance — the potential profitability — of combating infectious diseases.

This is on the pretext of health and safety.

The main charge was that practitioners indulged in sexual debauchery under the pretext of spirituality.