However, this should not be used as the pretext for an overall increase in police searches.
No weapons of mass destruction, the existence of which were used as the pretext for war, were found in Iraq.
The proclaimed need for protection of children and the fight against terrorism has often been shamelessly used as the pretext for privacy invasion".
The failure to turn up any of the weapons used as the pretext for Britain's unprovoked attack on Iraq last March has been cruelly highlighted by the queue of US officials and politicians now prepared to concede publicly that they didn't actually exist.
Poverty is used as the pretext for extraction and the destruction of rural communities; wealth and roads are promised in exchange for our compliance to relinquish our rights to our land and water". Despite the violence and hardship that Zorrilla, his family, and their fellow community members have faced, Zorrilla is still hopeful that the mining conflict will one day come to an end.
This cannot be used as the latest pretext by one intolerant segment of the population to push for supremacy.
Using as a pretext the catastrophic famine of the previous year (see below), he ordered the church to surrender its consecrated vessels, essential for services, to be sold for famine relief.
The car is perhaps the last vestige of his self-respect, or maybe, somewhere in his scorched soul, he thinks that using it as the pretext for brutally violent revenge is an appropriately suicidal farewell to all happiness.
In clashes in October PAD members fought the police with guns, bombs and sharp staves, hoping the army would again use disorder as the pretext for a coup.
Apart from his passing apology he showed little contrition, however, for his lewd and predatory statements on the tape and instead used it as the pretext for a long-threatened attack on Bill Clinton and his personal behavior.
The referendum must not be used as a pretext for refusing the rights of the minority to continue to fight its corner.
