Pretext of war
against slobodan milosevic to dominate the whole of the balkans.
Behold, he
invents pretexts
against me; he counts me as his enemy.
Pretext for an invasion.
Reliability cancel meetings frequently on the
flimsiest pretexts
that you can.
Pretext calls
to criminal elements by using caller id spoofing.
Reports of large yugoslav troop movements around kosova have
created a further pretext
for nato to repeat its threat to launch military action.
Pretext for a war
conjured up to serve a multiplicity of ends.
It did not finish the job and, according to the ffh, gave no
plausible pretext
to justify interrupting the work.
He must have
found some pretext
for giving her an injection.
Pretext for further intervention
in the future.
Was taking the country to war on a
false pretext
not an error of judgment?
The church in this village had been harassed by local authorities, who may have been
seeking a pretext
to arrest the church leaders.
Pretext for an attack
on iraq than the tenuous link to the anthrax scare.
Many people to whom the colonel owed a grudge were, on the
slightest pretext, incarcerated in the dungeon.
Often the van will have the name of a shop or utility company to
provide some pretext
for its being in the area.
Pretext for an action
- the iraqi weapons program.
Weapons of mass destruction offered little more than a
convenient pretext
for a war conjured up to serve a multiplicity of ends.
These were genuine enough but
became the pretext
for excessive equity valuations, fueling a general economic boom.
Pretext for aggression?
Perhaps the truth is that the film's brutal violence and misogynistic attitude are
mere pretexts
for its condemnation.
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