Sentence examples for using the pretext of from inspiring English sources
The two US officials said the CIA station chief in Libya compiled intelligence reports from eyewitnesses within 24 hours of the assault on the consulate that indicated militants had launched the violence, using the pretext of demonstrations against US facilities in Egypt against the film to cover their intent.
"The infidels are using the pretext of ending terrorism to achieve their nefarious designs".
In 882, using the pretext of a holy war against the Byzantine Empire, he annexed Syria.
"The lesson of it is we should not tolerate any inhuman act," he said, "particularly using the pretext of Islam".
But some members of Congress and advocates for immigrants fear that Mr. Ashcroft is using the pretext of efficiency to curb immigrants' civil liberties and to weed out judges who have ruled in favor of immigrants facing deportation.
In 1944, Stalin, using the pretext of perceived collaboration with the Germans, ordered the deportation of the entire population of Chechnya — half a million people — to the distant steppes of Kazakhstan.
Some have used the pretext of building what they call "new-style rural communities", such as Chaobei New City.
No doubt fearing investigation and trial, he used the pretext of an APEC summit in Brunei to seek refuge in Japan (where opponents maintain he was born).
On the night of Sept. 18, 1931, Japanese troops used the pretext of an explosion along the Japanese-controlled South Manchurian Railway to occupy Mukden.
Some observers believe the president had used the pretext of a power grab to throw a dragnet over his main political rivals.
Saddam Hussein used the pretext of Kuwaiti siphoning of Iraqi oil from a disputed field to invade the Gulf state in 1990.
