Sentence examples for without pretext from inspiring English sources

At a certain point I could stare without pretext or apology.

What is most shocking is not the fraud itself, but that it was brazen and entirely without pretext.

An arrest on an individual's record for not cooperating with an officer who stops him without pretext could potentially lead to years of unemployment.

Most of the tracks here come from the 1960s and '70s, when Mr. Velasquez had moved to Venezuela to escape the drug-related violence around the Colombian coast, but they could start a riot without pretext.

It would probably trick your friends if you gave it to them without pretext.

They just killed them without any pretext".

The US-UK invasion, utterly without credible pretext, is the major crime of the 21st century.

Local police in China frequently roam far beyond their jurisdictions, often without legal pretext, to seize citizens suspected of causing political embarrassment to their hometown governments.

Not just this, but being a writer also means you can conceal yourself behind a screen without a pretext for prejudice.

Conger's report to Stanton, however, stated that Corbett shot Booth "without order, pretext or excuse," and recommended that Corbett be punished for disobeying orders to take Booth alive.

"Every person I worked for in the military took an oath to defend the constitution, so without any pretext or serious reason to do so, imposing martial law in places where soldiers are from would absolutely generate blowback," Floyd said.