Passed under the pretext of preserving security, the 2003 law was deployed as a tool of oppression against peaceful dissent.

Many nuclear technologies, materials and items are subject to broad restrictions under the pretext of proliferation.

Using religion as a pretext for settling political scores

Under the pretext of counter terrorism, the colonial power ignored the colonization related problems, including inadmissible living conditions on Vieques.

Forcible transfers of persons on the pretext of securing evidence, without compelling grounds permitted under international law, constitute crimes against humanity.

Most important, it would undermine Iran s efforts to make inroads into the Arab world under the pretext of defending Palestine and Holy Jerusalem.

Since then, it also undertook steps to evict nine families under the pretext that their houses were built on land belonging to the University.

The channel continued for a period of 8 months, and then it closed in 2006 under the pretext of lack of access to a written statement allowing them to exercise their activities.

The new Arab generation s quest for dignity is rooted in a yearning for decent government and civil rights that was long denied under the pretext of conflict with the Zionist crusaders.

(o) To refrain from using counter terrorism as a pretext to restrict the right to freedom of opinion and expression in ways that are contrary to their obligations under international law

(o) To refrain from using counter terrorism as a pretext to restrict the right to freedom of opinion and expression in ways that are contrary to their obligations under international law

Security must not become a pretext for the suspending and destroying the liberal order.

The building of the wall was not only illegal under international law but also served as a pretext for the occupation of even more land, and was making a negotiated settlement even harder to achieve.

Reaffirms that hostage taking, wherever and by whomever committed, is a serious crime aimed at the destruction of human rights and is, under any circumstances, unjustifiable, including when committed under the pretext of achieving the goal of promoting and protecting human rights

Donor countries should remember that development aid cannot become a pretext for uncalled for influence.

Fourthly, Israeli forces had attacked four banks in the Palestinian territories and had confiscated millions of dollars under the pretext that those amounts had been deposited in suspicious accounts.

Belonging to a particular cultural group is merely a pretext for battles between the winners and losers of globalization.

America s president is not searching for excuses to start a war Assad s chemical weapons are not a fanciful pretext.

Despite such a situation, an inappropriate decision to open the question of the future status of Kosovo and Metohija has been made under the pretext that the perpetuation of the status quo is no longer possible.

With regard to terrorism and human rights, the League pointed out that under the pretext of fighting terrorism, many Governments imposed limitations on human rights in order to combat their opponents.

When this information finally became available from the Czech authorities, their claim was rejected under the pretext that the same information could have been obtained from their former estate manager earlier.

According to that information, a group of police officers went to the market under the pretext of an inspection, suspended the market's operation and demanded 1 million rubles from traders for permission to resume work, Kommersant writes.

There have also been reports of people being assaulted on this pretext.

If so, Israel might use it as a pretext to crush the Palestinians and their newly built institutions.

So far, the West has rejected everything, on the pretext that any uranium enrichment would indicate a military program.

The right to self determination should not be used as a pretext to undermine the principle of territorial integrity.

Those concepts run the risk of being invoked in the future as a pretext for aggression against our countries.

On the pretext of restoring order, the Russians occupied northern Iran in 1911.

And Russia s refusal to hand over Snowden, under the pretext of strict adherence to the law, has allowed Putin to poke Obama in the eye once again this time while posing as a defender of legality and human rights.

Each citizen, woman and man, of a member State of the United Nations must enjoy full equality before the law and their rights must not be limited, even less ignored, under pretext of any religion, belief or philosophy whatsoever.

Other direct investments were also stopped by Congress on the pretext of national security.

Processes that move the Organization forward cannot be slowed by the pretext of consensus.

More often, however, the cleansing is a pretext to change political direction after the people have voted in a way that magistrates oppose.

Assad s chemical weapons are not a fanciful pretext. The scale of the violence in Syria underscores the risk implied by inaction.

For indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation, data collection exercises should not be used as a pretext for establishing forced contact.

They also should not be inhibited in their work on the pretext of combating terrorism.

Mr. Martirosyan (Armenia), recalling that, at the previous session of the General Assembly, a similar attempt had been made to add an item to the agenda under the pretext of urgency without adequate justification, said that the current attempt similarly carried insufficient proof.

Uganda seems to be seeking a new pretext to justify its negative and harmful interference in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Thirteen houses were demolished on the pretext that a family member participated in, helped carry out or planned operations against Israeli targets.

But some observers fear that the incumbent DPP President Chen Shui bian will seek a pretext to prevent a defeat for the pro sovereignty camp.

It seems evident that the ends have been a pretext, if not a justification, for the abhorrent and anti democratic means that have been utilized.

Any accidental firing or miscalculations during such exercises, could be use as pretext for regional conflict.

The pretext alleged by the Government of Israel for building the wall was therefore entirely baseless.

But, as the younger Assad has been forced to recognize, times have changed. The new Arab generation s quest for dignity is rooted in a yearning for decent government and civil rights that was long denied under the pretext of conflict with the Zionist crusaders.

Europe s founding fathers understood this when they hatched the idea of creating the European Coal and Steel Community encouraging old enemies to pool some of the most powerful tools of war under the pretext of advancing their economic interests was a strategy of rare intelligence.