Sentence examples for weak pretext from inspiring English sources
A person can lose face by declining a social or business function on a weak pretext, refusing a present, expressing emotions uncontrollably or being too independent.
"As for their weak pretexts about fabricated crimes committed by Sudan, we can discuss it with them after they bring those who committed the atrocities and massacres in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq to the court implicated for the same crimes, but ones that are not fabricated, but rather proven with documents and incidents," Mr. Assad added.
Even most conflicts that we lazily identify as religious or ethic are in reality a pretext for land grabs and the economic exploitation of the weak by a society that still depends on food production but has devalued its farmers.
September 11th was a pretext.
But decommissioning is a pretext.
A pretext to detain a foreign national?
They just killed them without any pretext".
"On the slightest pretext, they execute people".
Often, this argument is just a pretext.
