Sentence examples for their pretexts from inspiring English sources

The ploys have been as amusing as their pretexts are flimsy.

Their quarrels have been outlasted by the art that was their pretext.

Their pretext was one with which most Middle Eastern dictators would sympathise: security.

What Wiseman found in Jackson Heights is people talking, mainly in organized, formalized settings that have their pretext and their agenda defined.

The military took this as their pretext to intervene and the courts had no problem with that.

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.

This locus of identification became their pretext to justify that the local Libyans would spare them from their violent activities.

Bangladesh's record in this respect is dire (see chart), providing the generals with one of their main pretexts for taking power.

"As for their weak pretexts about fabricated crimes committed by Sudan, we can discuss it with them after they bring those who committed the atrocities and massacres in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq to the court implicated for the same crimes, but ones that are not fabricated, but rather proven with documents and incidents," Mr. Assad added.