(1) The incident provided the pretext for war.

(2) He considered inventing some pretext for calling her.

(3) He came to see me on/under the pretext of asking my advice when he really wanted to borrow money.

(4) The border dispute was used as a pretext for military intervention.

(5) He used his sore finger as a pretext for not going to school.

(6) This provided a pretext for the authorities to cancel the elections.

(7) He used his research as a pretext for travelling to Hungary.

(8) He'll phone on some pretext or other.

(9) He got into the house on the pretext of checking the gas .

(10) He left immediately on the pretext that he had a train to catch.

(11) He disappeared into his study on the pretext that he had work to do there.

(12) The incident was used as a pretext for intervention in the area.

(13) They wanted a pretext for subduing the region by force.

(14) He used his headache as a pretext for not going to school.

(15) I called her on the pretext of needing more information.

(16) He didn't attend that meeting under the pretext of sickness.

(17) Be careful not to give him a pretext to report you.

(18) Under the pretext of checking her identity,() the man had copied down her credit card details.

(19) He left the party early on the pretext of having work to do.

(20) We'll have to find a pretext for not going to the party.

(21) Tom called at her apartment on the pretext of asking for a book.

(22) He left early on the pretext that he had a bad tootache and had to see the dentist.

(23) One pretext disposed of, McClellan found another.

(24) Every adverse employment decision is a pretext for litigation.

(25) I had been almost ready to invent some pretext for a foray to the northward.

(26) He keeps popping into my office on the slightest pretext.

(27) The aggressor troops marched into the neighbouring country on the pretext of searching for their missing soldier.

(28) No constituency should be allowed to have an extraordinarily small electorate on the pretext that it comprises widely dispersed and isolated communities.

(29) The cadres, under pressure, singled out alleged culprits on no pretext at all.

(30) He used to spend hours at her house on the pretext of giving her Japanese lessons.

(1) The incident provided the pretext for war.

(2) He considered inventing some pretext for calling her.

(3) The border dispute was used as a pretext for military intervention.

(4) He used his sore finger as a pretext for not going to school.

(5) This provided a pretext for the authorities to cancel the elections.

(6) He used his research as a pretext for travelling to Hungary.

(7) The aggressor troops marched into the neighbouring country on the pretext of searching for their missing soldier.

(31) He would badger him about anything, often hitting him on the least pretext.

(32) Finally, on a pretext of doing a little musicological research, he went down and wandered around.

(33) Even one counterexample would give us a pretext to bring the rogue in for questioning.

(34) His rental car was stopped by police on the pretext that it had a broken tail light.

(35) He can't recall the man's story but clearly it was a pretext for his accomplice to search the house.

(36) The Victorians invented Christmas, according to the exhibition, as a pretext for selling toys.

(37) Ivor and Pauline were lured back to Stroud's bungalow at Staunton,(http:///pretext.html) on the pretext of discussing the cash settlement.

(38) The boy was simply a beggar: his bundle of newspapers was a pretext, and we called him the Newspaper Boy.

(39) Minor offences were sometimes used as a pretext for an arrest.

(40) He would have Christmas Day off and he would surely call at the vicarage on some pretext or other.

(41) However, this can not be used as a pretext to justify inertia.

(42) People were moving more slowly and nonchalantly, without the pretext of a destination or purpose.

(43) She was recently hauled off a train by the police on some bureaucratic pretext and escorted under protest to the station.

(44) He could of course simply walk out on some pretext - visiting a friend.

(45) Mr. Baines was glad to have a pretext for leaving the party early.

(46) I lingered, on the pretext of finishing half a glass of champagne.

(47) The gang enters people's houses under the pretext of making repairs(), and then steals everything of value.

(48) Possibly, as war drew closer, the police wanted some pretext to keep Joyce on their books.

(49) Reformist leaders have told the public to remain calm to deprive hardliners in the security forces of any pretext for violent action.

(50) His sore leg was a pretext. He just wanted a day off work.

(51) The incident also appeared to provide a pretext for the government to institute harsher measures against the student demonstrators.

(52) Jonathan Probyn called his wife under the pretext of having a problem with one of their children.

(53) Armed clashes between farmers and squatters that led to deaths could provide the pretext.

(54) The accusations about the internment camps look to many analysts like a possible pretext for war.

(55) But this is exactly what I was trying to tell them every single day on almost every little pretext that I had.

(56) In creative groups, failure is regarded as a learning experience, not a pretext for punishment.

(57) It was impossible to find any pretext for remaining in her company.

(58) Here in the islands they were arranged on the slightest pretext of celebration.

(59) The crisis became a pretext for advocating cuts in public spending of every kind.

(60) What bothers us more is the seeming predisposition of the federal courts to strike down term-limit laws on just about any pretext.

(61) Within moments, Alison had found a pretext to excuse herself.

(62) And under what pretext, you may ask, is Gates being sued?

(63) She couldn't find a pretext to visit Derek at home.

(64) Opposition leaders are afraid to give Milosevic the pretext to use more brutality and proclaim martial law or something along those lines.

(65) My comments on his work were valuable only as an irritating pretext which permitted him to lecture me on Art.

(66) He stayed away under the pretext of ill health.

(67) He cheated me under the pretext of friendship.

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(68) He stayed away on the pretext of ill health.

(69) The pretext was weak, even fishy.

(70) John left early under the pretext of illness.

(71) Friends, is only a pretext for self-inflicted and consolation.

(72) We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.

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(74) He absented himself from the meeting on the pretext of illness.

(75) Under the pretext of travelling on business, ( some cadres ) go holidaying and waste public money.

(76) This allows to find a pretext for the US-British coalition.

(77) They would now find some dubious pretext to restart the war.

(78) The boss sent little Jack away on some pretext or other.

(79) She said the story of their own to maintain the integrity of six months after the work has finally found a boss later learned that she had drug absorption , to find a pretext for the dismissal of her.

(80) Has anyone else ever found a better pretext for a sloppy snog?

(81) I was going to have him called away from the house on some pretext or other.

(82) It was obvious that he was pleased with his own display of anger, and that, walking through the regiment, he was trying to find a pretext for wrath.

(83) The little boy tried very hard to find a pretext for not doing his homework.

(84) He excused himself on the pretext of a stomach upset.

(85) He used his sore throat as a pretext for not going to shool.

(86) In most cases we were refused on some pretext or other, while we ourselves turned down a few places as unsuitable.

(87) Stuart Chase and others have come near to claiming that all abstract words are meaningless, and have used this as a pretext for advocating a kind of political quietism.

(88) The US Government persecuted him under the pretext of various unwarranted " charges.

(89) It was her pleasure her vanity to drag in these names on every pretext.

(90) Some women furtively stash away their husband's money over the years on the pretext that it would be of some assistance if he has to die first.

(91) Permits for ships' entry into and departure from ports shall be handled by the Harbour Bureau, and no other organ may obstruct or detain the ships under any pretext.

(92) The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq.

(93) But on this pretext it would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!

(94) The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the cure, and both had paid the colonel a visit, on some pretext or other.

(95) There is no sense in fastening on that pretext of yours.

(96) The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

(97) The far wiser policy would have been to hang back and make it harder for Putin to find a pretext for invasion.

(98) This is, at least partially, an ill-founded pretext for being immature.

(99) The important ways of impairment of citizen's property include conduct under the pretext of public interests, maladministration, remissness of duty, misuse of authority.

(100) By March 1898 the German Kaiser Wilhelm II took formal possession of the region with the two murdered German missionaries as a pretext.

(101) The boy refuses to go to school on [ under ] the pretext of illness [ an ailment, sickness ].

(102) Second, the Vatican must not interfere in China's internal affairs on the pretext of religious affairs.

(103) He came to see me on the pretext of asking my advice.

(104) When in high school, to tell the truth, I liked blackout,(http:///pretext.html) for I could find a pretext for me to stop study.

(105) The "one-party allocution" system was set up by Sun Yat-sen but was also restricted, which left a pretext for the attack from the community.

(106) So we marked time , using the need to end the Vietnam war as a pretext.

(107) The network media by the use is by actually the disassimilation medium authority, is only this kind of medium authority on the pretext of for some kind of dissemination technology.

(108) A tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

(109) We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq.

(110) It could not find any colourable pretext for refusing the few hundred thousands required by the teachers, and it capitulated in panic.

(111) However, the existence of those challenges can by no means serve as a pretext for us to withdraw into our nationalistic mindset, to pose China in diametric opposition to the rest of the world.

(112) There has been recurrent talk by the government of registering all Internet users, and many worry that a wave of online threats and vigilantism could serve as a pretext to impose new limits on users.

(113) And lest by reason of any pretext of ecclesiastical property that of the Bishop be submerged, be it that he has a wife and children, or relatives, or house servants.

(114) He used his sore throat as a pretext for not going to school.

(115) The seeming failure of the urban offers an exceptional opportunity, a pretext for Nietzschean frivolity.

(116) All Bin Laden's rhetoric is but pretext for his malicious anti - humanity and anti - civilization heretic religion.

(117) Cattle as a result of favoritism and bribery Gao, under the pretext of no evidence, inadmissible.

(118) I won′t remain supperless even though you refute every one of my imputations . "The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny."