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    1. love to be given a pretext to annexe the Comte’s


    2. Discarding medicine under the pretext that ‘it is not natural’ is rejecting help offered by the Master of the Universe


    3. In 1730, their affairs were in so great disorder, that they were altogether incapable of maintaining their forts and garrisons, the sole purpose and pretext of their institution


    4. Their capital, which never exceeded £744,000, and of which £50 was a share, was not so exorbitant, nor their dealings so extensive, as to afford either a pretext for gross negligence and profusion, or a cover to gross malversation


    5. The great increase of their fortune had, it seems, only served to furnish their servants with a pretext for greater profusion, and a cover for greater malversation, than in proportion even to that increase of fortune


    6. The English copper company of London, the lead-smelting company, the glass-grinding company, have not even the pretext of any great or singular utility in the object which they pursue ; nor does the pursuit of that object seem to require any expense unsuitable to the fortunes of many private men


    7. with a pretext for greed, God is witness…


    8. A few months ago, just before the Ansahs started to England, Kwasie Adjaye, Captain of the Royal Hammockmen, and commanding one thousand guns, was accused of familiarity with one of these sisters, Princess Akosia Bereyna, and he was publicly put to death on this flimsy pretext


    9. The ―remedial‖ course of action initiated by state and local governments at curbing or eliminating smoking altogether, especially among young teens, by imposing additional excise taxes on cigarettes that would make such purchases cost-prohibitive, are cynical deceptions on the part of politicians on both sides of the political aisle designed to increase revenue for (social) spending programs under the pretext of concern for under-age smoking


    10. I know of one instance where the dismissal was done under the legal pretext of “no work no pay

    11. The usual pretext of most lynchings was the accusation of Blacks' rape or attempted rapes of white women


    12. Were they to know it, they would join the ranks of the great majority of the population who, with their silence, oppose those demonstrations, reject the leadership of pacifists who sponsor peace under any pretext and at any price, and trust the good sense and judgment of governing leaders who, backed by concrete facts, row against the current, mark out urgencies dictated by reasoning and make decisions of grave consequences for the benefit and security of the people they govern


    13. She said that she would sweet talk him into coming to the office on the pretext of picking up his money; instead, he’d grabbed the damn phone from her, and now the wormy little Dearling was gone


    14. allowed the terrorist attacks of 9/11 to go forward “perhaps as a pretext for war


    15. Do you think you could get your Captain to give you more men, on some pretext or other?”


    16. Americans allowed the attack on America with pretext of invading other countries, so war mongers and profiteers could remain in business and sustain oil greed


    17. Under the pretext of visiting a sick family member, I took a journey by train back to my home town of Shrewsbury, along with a sturdy wooden box containing all the evidence needed to implicate the club and its members in the five murders


    18. The Afghan war was on the pretext that the Taliban, who my


    19. the pretext that that country had weapons of mass destruction—both blatant lies


    20. pretext to go to war—a war that made the elite’s pockets overflow with coin

    21. ” They have used provisions intended to protect the States from federal interference with religion “as a pretext” for interference by the Supreme Court itself


    22. 16 And to Cain and his offering the Lord did not turn, and he did not incline to it, for he had brought from the inferior fruit of the ground before the Lord, and Cain was jealous against his brother Abel on account of this, and he sought a pretext to kill him


    23. The pretext of these training programs and technological inventions is often to


    24. 32 And Simeon and Levi spoke this to Shechem and his father in order to find a pretext, and to seek counsel what was to be done to Shechem and to his city in this matter


    25. 36 Now therefore know and see what you will do, and seek counsel and pretext what is to be done to them, in order to kill all the inhabitants of this city


    26. 5 And his brothers answered him saying, So and so we did, and our hearts afterward struck us on account of this act, and we now sit to seek a pretext how we shall reconcile our father to it


    27. 52 And Joseph was greatly afraid of his brothers and on account of Pharaoh, and Joseph sought a pretext to make himself known to his brothers, lest they should destroy all Egypt


    28. And if the experiment were to unfold poorly, then the Occidental Union would use the disaster as the perfect pretext to obliterate the Free Islands


    29. An occasional exchange student would be treated to the complete act in the hotel he would have arranged for her to stay—all this during daytime under the pretext of having some work to do around there


    30. Von Blum tried to sue me for slander/libel, wrote THE AG he had never been so maligned in his professional career, and he demanded I be fired! My job, of course, was saved, but the AG used it as pretext to deny me the first of four or five step raises due in ordinary course every six months

    31. This was a pretext


    32. pretext for firing me that it was and took preemptive measures


    33. I was very shocked and angered by my termination based upon the pretext that Almendral, supposedly parroting Hottman, gave me


    34. 16 And to Cain and his offering the Lord did not turn and he did not incline to it for he had brought from the inferior fruit of the ground before the Lord and Cain was jealous against his brother Abel on account of this and he sought a pretext to kill him


    35. 32 And Simeon and Levi spoke this to Shechem and his father in order to find a pretext and to seek counsel what was to be done to Shechem and to his city in this matter


    36. 36 Now therefore know and see what you will do and seek counsel and pretext what is to be done to them in order to kill all the inhabitants of this city


    37. 5 And his brothers answered him saying So and so we did and our hearts afterward struck us on account of this act and we now sit to seek a pretext how we shall reconcile our father to it


    38. 52 And Joseph was greatly afraid of his brothers and on account of Pharaoh and Joseph sought a pretext to make himself known to his brothers lest they should destroy all Egypt


    39. so when I moved in there was no pretext of having a separate bedroom


    40. Of course, they would not shoot you, but they might just question you under any pretext and then hand you over to the German authorities who were certain to find something for which they could punish you

    41. No matter how feeble the pretext, we whooped it up and toasted our survival


    42. Under the pretext of needing someone to collect rents while he was away, he made an appointment to see Arnold Osbairne, using his mother’s surname


    43. On the pretext of being tired and needing an early night, Chris engineered an escape and before long Ruth and he were sitting in the


    44. She tilted her head in the pretext of thinking


    45. impressionable society, who would do well to consider the pretext of homosexuality with the same


    46. Leave alone the cruelty of the crime, didn’t it reflect the stupidity of man! And what do those murders of sexual jealousy tell but the tale of man’s idiocy? Oh, on the pretext of patching up, how easily the husband or the paramour would lure the other into a death trap! What a wonder is it that one comes to trust someone with a motive to harm one! Oh, if only the intended victim had known an iota of the human psychology! Would then there be the death of one and the jailing of the other?’


    47. But the spies seized upon this as a pretext for assailing Jesus


    48. Gerard shows up at this man’s house a day later with the pretext of checking on him


    49. The schedule seems to be to create the dissatisfaction through advertising, create the opportunity for women to enter the labor force on the pretext of equality with men, and thus weaken the family unit without so much as a fight


    50. pretext that I was going to run the distance between us as fast














































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    Synonyms for "pretext"

    guise pretence pretense pretext stalking-horse defense evasion semblance alibi makeshift trick

    "pretext" definitions

    something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason


    an artful or simulated semblance