Sentence examples for using the pretense of from inspiring English sources

Critics have argued that China is using the pretense of a campaign against terrorism to legitimize its harsh treatment of Muslim Uighur minorities that are peacefully seeking a separate state in the western province of Xinjiang.

These nations were united not in the spirit of eradicating racism, but in playing to the cheap seats, using the pretense of anti-racism as a human shield in the furtherance of anti-Zionism.

(Or so I think it's possible I just wanted to talk about the game, period, using the pretense of needing help as an excuse to wax about how cool Cloud was).

Starting on December 8th, they may use the pretense of a Washington economic conference to launch a second lame-duck session of Congress.

Mr. Le Roy said Mr. Gbagbo had used the pretense of engaging in negotiations this week as a trick to consolidate his position, and had reinforced the areas with weapons even as his envoys had been in international talks.

It's an uncomfortable but real truth that we are not all in this together; America's top-down class warriors lost big in the election, but now they're trying to use the pretense of concern about the deficit to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

According to sources in various opposition parties and inside Yeltsin's own campaign, troops used the pretense of a bomb threat to seal off the Duma building on Sunday, March 17th, and searched the office of Valentin Kuptsov, one of the leaders of the Communist Party in the Duma.

The story was the exact kind of violent and paranoia-stoking stuff that 2000AD used the pretense of a science-fiction banner to deflect criticism.

It doesn't use the pretense of reform to shift the tax burden off the rich, as Republican "tax reform" plans usually do, and it does not use hand-waving to gesture in the direction of reform without following through.

These despicable individuals merely used the pretense of attempting to protect groups that may be affected by Milo's speech to use others as targets for nothing else but their belligerent attitudes.

My parents had purchased the computer for me in an attempt to free up their office on nights and weekends, when I would use the pretense of homework to chat with friends on AIM.