pretext

Maula Bux himself was killed in 2006, after being lured across the border by Iranian forces on the pretext of a drug deal.

But now everything was a good pretext to vent the rebellious mood.

Some Syrian rebel groups maintain that the Americans invented Khorasan as a pretext for the attack.

But he warned against using the pretext of defense to launch vast campaigns of destruction.

That pretext may have come with the violence that erupted in the port city of Odessa on yesterday.

Both had appealed to Napoleon; consequently there was a decent pretext for sending a French army into Spain.

That is a very flimsy pretext, so that the fiscals may not perform their duties faithfully against the governor.

And for this reason the first help should be given to this State, and not to what has the pretext of piety.

She had a daughter who served her as a pretext for cultivating the society of young men of fashion.

She might have invented a pretext for staying away; she might even invent a pretext now for going.