Sentence examples for the slightest pretext from inspiring English sources
"On the slightest pretext, they execute people".
She would hit Eva and explode into rages on the slightest pretext.
You can bet that after all the fuss with Quick, the police would have pressed charges on the slightest pretext.
Major Shamad described the Americans on the Syrian border as jumpy and afraid, firing on the slightest pretext.
"Angela Gerekou has submitted her resignation for reasons of sensitivity and sensibility, so that there cannot be the slightest pretext to hurt the government," the statement said.
Stalin was afraid that Hitler would use the slightest pretext to launch an invasion, and warned his forces to do nothing provocative.
In a six-page response that he released to reporters, the professor, Ward L. Churchill, denied some accusations and in other cases said the panel had used "the slightest of pretexts to conclude that I engaged in significant research misconduct".
The enemies of individualism, such as the communists and the Nazis, had the same view of the mass of humanity as the Romans had - fodder fit only for slavery, sexual and economic exploitation, torture, and execution on the slightest whim or pretext.
The slightest gaffe is the pretext for editorials questioning her competence.
If it was not already the case, visitors will certainly be convinced that their fellow human beings are inclined to take great pleasure in destruction and slaughter, on the grounds of the slightest religious or political pretext.
Only the slightest touch.
