Up, pretext or cause.

Or is that just a pretext?

Using religion as a pretext for settling political scores

Everfthing is but a pretext for taunts, punishment and humiliation.

And yet... under what pretext can I commit high treason?

He drags them out at any pretext, doesn't he? col.

Most importantly, environmental issues should not become a pretext for protectionism.

The pretext given is that the budget for prisons is lower.

counsel is persecuting the witness in the pretext of gaining testimony.

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

The pretext would be that there are repair works to be done.

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

Tonight he got her here on the pretext Well, he was pretty drunk.

The next day, on the pretext of taking care of some old taxes,

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

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

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

No matter what pretext terrorists may use for their deeds, terrorism has no justification.

No matter what pretext terrorists may use for their deeds, terrorism has no justification.

The pretext for the deportation was that they constitute a threat to the settlers.

Under the pretext of hygiene, nudity strips the inmates ofall pride in one stroke.

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

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

On a pretext, lead him aside to speak of what you heard at Lepidus' house.

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.

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

High oil prices should not be used as a pretext for suspending the mobilization of funds.

By resorting to such a transparent pretext, the United States was, in practice, accepting that reality.

No, the hunt is only a pretext that I may deploy my men to attack Inui.

But in reality, the theatre was just a pretext to meet other young men like him.

Using self defence as a pretext, Israel was simply continuing its occupation of Palestinian and Syrian territories.

The pretext was that they had called an ambulance and that they were waiting for the ambulance.

Thus, under the pretext of looking for hidden arms, the police break into private houses and apartments.

However, the absence of any reference to specific figures should not serve as a pretext for inaction.

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

Lebanon's prisoner in Israel is on his way back and yet another pretext for Hizballah's weapons is gone.

The United Nations has no legal pretext or ground to adopt a quot resolution quot over this matter.

The pretext they used was that they had a religious feast they wanted to celebrate inside the mosque.

The developed world, therefore, cannot claim paternity over our biodiversity under the pretext that their technology was used.

We are against using human rights as a pretext to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries.

One morning... certain he wasn't at home... on the pretext of housekeeping, I went up to his room.

In the end, her adoption by the Joshuya family would be a mere pretext lasting perhaps six months.

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.