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How To Use pretext In A Sentence

• There was also a report that Japan was dispatching its troops to Korea on the pretext of protecting its legation.
• The principle of comity is that when one court exercising proper jurisdiction renders an opinion concerning a specific case, then that opinion is binding on other courts to which this same case (same parties, same facts, same issues) is re-presented to a different court under some pretext, except where the second court is exercising appellate review over the first decision. The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Opinions Precedential Within the Same District?
• The centerpiece of that strategy is the use of minor infractions as pretexts to lock up suspects on whom the government lacks sufficient evidence to accuse them of more serious crimes.
• One such pretext was the liberation of an area known as the Shaba Farms near Mount Hermon. The Secret War with Iran
• The silly pretext of difficulties by which my erasure, notwithstanding the reiterated solicitations of the victorious General, was so long delayed made me apprehensive of a renewal, under a weak and jealous pentarchy, of the horrible scenes of 1796. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
• He has had his heart set on launching a punitive war on whatever pretext.
• Opposition leaders accused the government of orchestrating the 2003 coup as a pretext for purging the military and cracking down on political opponents.
• Of course, there are always good pretexts to postpone political reform.
• The pretext to begin circulating Perry's name for a presidential run will be easily established, and the Tea Partiers that he energized with his irresponsible talk of secession will slowly turn pragmatic and confront the question of who can win in 2012. James Moore: Yo, America. It's Texas. We Got Another One for Ya!
• I had been almost ready to invent some pretext for a foray to the northward.