Sentence examples for with a pretext from inspiring English sources

Armenian resistance, when it occurred, provided the authorities with a pretext for employing harsher measures.

A Byzantine revolt in Thrace provided the Bulgarian tsar Kalojan with a pretext for invasion.

Such actions only supply Mr. Milosevic with a pretext for his own disruptive efforts.

It's better to come up with a pretext, like 'my mom wants pictures of you and me,' " he said.

Essentially, the program is a staged suite with a pretext that sometimes collides with the spirit of the dances.

The armed Hutu presence in the provinces provides the Rwandan government with a pretext to justify its interference there.

The truth is that Phillips has made it clear that he doesn't give a fig whether the institution of psychoanalysis endures, just as he, like Freud, is not all that that smitten with the "romance of cure," preferring to see his sessions with patients as "a pretext for togetherness, a way out of loneliness".

Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin said other nations have been far too slow to react to warnings of looming starvation it issued in December, and were using the war with Eritrea as a pretext for delaying aid.

Some in Israel have questioned whether the new government is using the Aug. 5 attack — in which masked gunmen killed 16 Egyptian soldiers, then burst into Israel in an armored car loaded with explosives — as a pretext to modify the treaty without going through the proper channels.

In the pending class-action suit, plaintiff Ronald Bethune alleges that Lending Club's relationship with WebBank is "a pretext and a sham" that exists only to allow Lending Club to charge higher rates.

Boris Akunin, a famous novelist and a member of the liberal community in Moscow, warned today that the conflict with Ukraine may be a pretext for a wider crackdown.