Pretexts

From Ken Y-N: Sigh, I see you posting links to your latest posts on very thin pretexts on this and other blogs. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Subsequently the US will have to withdraw under various pretexts from the conflicts it unleashed unless its victory will be complete and obvious. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And they give it to me under false pretexts, which is pretexting which is against the California law, which is why the California attorney general is going in. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Benyon's ignorance of her pretexts is a proof that this rather oddly-mated couple never arrived at perfect intimacy, -- in spite of a fact which remains to be related. ❋ Henry James (1879)

They discussed a new edict of Montesquieu's, and the necessity of arming themselves in case of violence on the marshal's part: thus it was nothing less than the beginning of a civil war, for which the pretexts were the impiety of the regent's court and Dubois's sacrileges; pretexts which would arouse the anathemas of an essentially religious province, against a reign so little worthy to succeed that of Louis XIV. ❋ Alexandre Dumas P��re (1836)

Here, Judge Robertson found that, despite the Library's protests that it had no problem with Diane Schroer's gender identity, some of the "legitimate" reasons given by the Library for failure to hire Schroer were "pretexts" -- untrue. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Service and Administration colleague Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi were attempting to come up with "pretexts" for not paying educators what was due to them. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Another valid criticism concerns the way authorities have harassed opposition candidates, denying them public spaces to campaign, and sometimes striking them from the ballot on technicalities or invented pretexts. ❋ Daniel Treisman (2011)

On a daily basis, they hang political prisoners under different pretexts like drug trafficking, prostitution and imaginary crimes. ❋ Elisabeth Braw (2011)

Most people have no problem seeing irrationality in converts to every other faith, but diplomacy forbids acknowledging this, offering pretexts instead, which also appears as justification. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

The guy runs a blog based to a large extent on calling people racists on the flimsiest of pretexts. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Kissinger himself has been a longtime advocate of using proxies and pretexts for gaining control of Mideast oil, and even using military force if we are feeling a bit too oil-parched. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Again, it was overturned by a PCB tribunal on appeal, much to the chagrin of the World Anti-Doping Agency, but when Shoaib, along with fellow fast-bowler Mohammed Asif, was withdrawn from the Pakistani squad shortly before the 2007 World Cup on spurious injury pretexts, the implication was clear. ❋ Richard Lord (2011)