Sentence examples for under a professional pretext from inspiring English sources
Like others I spoke to, this woman said that Weinstein brought her to a hotel room under a professional pretext, changed into a bathrobe, and, she said, "forced himself on me sexually".
"Our fear is that will happen in Iraq under a different pretext".
Just as Langdon realizes he has been lured to Washington under a false pretext, a shriek arises from the Rotunda.
If Western nations lift sanctions, for instance, he said, "they cannot then readopt them two months later under a different pretext".
The August war in the Caucasus was started by the Georgians under a false pretext on the night of Aug. 7. Civilians and Russian peacekeepers were attacked.
That assistance is now increasing under a 'drug war' pretext that is dismissed by almost all serious observers.
The authorities arrested Mrs. McGuckin after persuading her to come into town to see them under a pretext.
One of the campaigners who has now come forward said he, too, had been lured to a police station under a pretext by Smith in late 2012.
Following Rau's injury, Marty managed to imprison him under a pretext for a brief time.
Stace is a professional musician and aspiring Wodehouse, and the whodunit is a mere pretext for witty debate, pitting "Satie's soufflés" and "Mahler's monstrous symphonies" against England's "melting harmonies".
What if Putin ordered this attack to make Russia seem unstable under Medvedev, as a pretext for taking back control?
