Sentence examples for their pretext was from inspiring English sources
Their pretext was one with which most Middle Eastern dictators would sympathise: security.
Their pretext is "Bartenders," a one-man show written by and starring Louis Mustillo, who, by personal experience, family ties and friendships, knows whereof he speaks.
Their pretext is the protection of the small investor: they want banks to make clear the terms of retail trades they execute internally; and they want advice to be made compulsory for small customers' trades (whether clients want it or not).
Their pretext is the accumulating allegations of complicity of U.N. officials in scams that transformed the oil-for-food program in Saddam Hussein's Iraq into a racketeering enterprise whose single greatest beneficiary — to the tune of twenty billion dollars — was the tyrant himself.
The ploys have been as amusing as their pretexts are flimsy.
"The pretext was that I was a card-carrying communist.
Don't ask me what my legal pretext was.
The apparent pretext was the government's handling of peace talks.
The pretext was a nearly successful attempt on the life of Lenin by a Socialist Revolutionary, Fannie Kaplan.
The pretext was that it had issued an offensive poll question about the siege of Leningrad.
The pretext was to bomb the Islamic State; it was a ruse.
