Sentence examples for typical pretext from inspiring English sources
Carroll's vague justification for the stop — with its use of loaded but largely meaningless words like "slinking" and "peering" — thus served as a legal but all too typical pretext for a nighttime stop-and-frisk.
We've now made skin-to-skin contact -- but without the typical date night's pretext leading up to this moment, I can't help but wonder if it's just a friendly gesture.
TYPICAL COMPLAINT "My ex often finds a parenting-related pretext to call, then launches into a marathon rant about how I've destroyed her life.
The recent and continuing invasions in Kosovo, using the rights of minorities as a pretext, and the unbelievable demands being made on Yugoslavia are a typical example of how military intervention is being advanced as a general principle of international law at the expense of the principle of national sovereignty.
The attacks of "Israel's latest massacre in Gaza," said a headline by commentator Ali Abunimah posted at his Electronic Intifada,"have followed a typical pattern," with Palestinians responding with rockets of scant consequence, providing Israel a desired pretext for continued bombing of Gazans.
September 11th was a pretext.
But decommissioning is a pretext.
A pretext to detain a foreign national?
They just killed them without any pretext".
"On the slightest pretext, they execute people".
