Sentence examples for use as a pretext from inspiring English sources

"Please do not use as a pretext what the Americans or others are doing.

"It also doesn't account for the fact that state police gave a handout giving troopers a whole list of traffic violations to use as a pretext for racial profiling.

The early-20th-century struggles for Irish independence from Britain were easier to romanticize — to treat as classic tragedy, as John Ford's "Informer" (1935) and Carol Reed's "Odd Man Out" (1947) did, or to use as a pretext for rousing revolutionary adventures, like Michael Anderson's "Shake Hands With the Devil" (1959) or Tay Garnett's "Night Fighters" (1960).

Eight years later, the N.S.A. committed a "major blunder," in Bamford's words, by inflating the threat of a second attack in the Gulf of Tonkin in the early days of August , 1964 which President Lyndon B. Johnson would use as a pretext for leading the nation into what would become the Vietnam War.

Ukraine's acting government and the West have accused Russia of orchestrating the unrest, which they fear Moscow could use as a pretext for an invasion.

It's apparent the government is even laying the groundwork for such a violent confrontation, which it can use as a pretext to impose a full-scale authoritarianism as evidenced in Belarus and even some form of martial law.

She says the US-funded "War on Drugs" is used as a pretext to improve conditions for foreign investment.

But instead it is used as a pretext for Erdoğan to galvanise power".

But Mr. Reid insisted his decision should not be used as a pretext to break off talks.

This can't be used as a pretext for delivering new sources of money.

"This may be used, may be manipulated, used as a pretext to do something," he said.