| Government officials have used concern for real estate value and tourism appeal as pretexts for such abuses. |
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| The usual pretexts for war were used, which resulted in profits for the privileged few. |
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| All of the pretexts used to justify the war have proven to be lies and fabrications. |
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| He has often sought to justify repression on the pretexts of threatened coups against his government. |
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| Moreover, where national enterprises are non-competitive, the imperial states invent pretexts to protect them from more efficient producers. |
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| This would bring an end to his many attempts to extort money from organisations on the flimsiest of pretexts. |
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| Actually your average policeman already has the power to arrest you on the flimsiest of pretexts, from jay-walking to swearing at him. |
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| First and foremost, the legislation provides for extensive detention without charge or trial, on the flimsiest of pretexts. |
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| The allegations against Wahid were always threadbare pretexts for his removal from office. |
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| States which are defenseless can be attacked at will, with the most flimsy pretexts and virtually no international support. |
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| In lucid prose, he shreds pretenses and pretexts and demands consistent, bright lines. |
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| That time frame leaves an almost inexhaustible supply of pretexts to draw upon in the fight against the West. |
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| But it has become increasingly clear to them that the pretexts for the war were false. |
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| We're the ones who unquestioningly march behind bullies into other countries on fictitious pretexts. |
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| Defendants can usually win a continuance on the flimsiest of pretexts, and their strategy typically is to delay and delay until the woman gives up the prosecution. |
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| A handful had remained loyal to their oath as doctors or to their basic sense of decency and had refused to carry out instructions, citing valid excuses or flimsy pretexts. |
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| Of course, there are always good pretexts to postpone political reform. |
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| Various pretexts, excuses, and complications have been invoked over the years, but essentially this is a matter of politically motivated exclusion. |
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| Significant proportions of us die every year on the flimsiest of pretexts. |
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| We find pretexts and excuses to nip through the main room to check on David, bringing him half an orange, a chunk of chocolate, so he knows we're still thinking of him. |
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| Violence is becoming unbelievably crueler and wars, often under false pretexts and lies, are increasing in number. |
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| Titles and footnotes tend to be pretexts for disquisitions on the creative process in music, which is stimulated by highly diverse factors. |
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| The authorities found different pretexts to make the arrests, things like hooliganism. |
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| But the Western partners, using far-fetched pretexts, have for more than seven years now prevented this Agreement from entering into force. |
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| Thanks to electoral maths, it would probably have hurt the Liberal Democrats most. So there are excuses and pretexts. |
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| Here, I wish to note my regrets that some of the leaders of the movements were absent under various pretexts. |
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| However, quarrels over language, religion and education, along with annual Orange parades, also served as pretexts for calling in the troops. |
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| This has made some States wish to obtain such lethal weapons on independence and national security pretexts. |
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| Her mother insisted upon knowing the true cause of these reiterated refusals, as she wasn't convinced by her daughter's pretexts. |
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| The Italians fought endless civic wars under the banner of Guelph or Ghibelline, Pope or Empire, but they were little more than pretexts for strife. |
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| Those needing pretexts could preach national necessity when they tore down bells or walked off with plate that could be recast into guns or coinage. |
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| When it comes to invading foreign countries on false or flimsy pretexts, the Russians have lots of company. |
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| The imposition of these measures under whatever pretexts not only impacts adversely on the wellbeing and daily lives of ordinary people, but which also contradicts with the principles of multilateral free trade. |
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| For these reasons I do not want to vote in favour of these drafts, as they appear to be nothing more than a list of pretexts for suspending the integration process without good cause. |
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| Many regimes are imposing controls on civil society under the pretexts of ensuring security, political stability, and non-interference in the country's internal affairs. |
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| Forced marriage often affects young people, who may be taken abroad on false pretexts, or pressured to marry in order to sponsor their new spouse for immigration purposes. |
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| Those who do not believe in the European Union will naturally find clever legal excuses for political pretexts to deride the Constitution and they have every right to do so. |
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| As pretexts so often do, this one quickly wore thin. |
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| They see them not as a way of levering up standards but as a way for those in the developed world to use new pretexts to keep their markets closed to the goods and services being exported from developing countries. |
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| If the Cold War is no longer a reason for rejecting the internationalization of materials, there could be other pretexts, good or bad, which would delay it for another half century. |
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| Popular uprisings abroad, like sensitive political anniversaries or big events such as the 2008 Beijing Olympics at home, offer pretexts for a round-up of the usual suspects. |
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| In practice, this legal framework can easily be used to find pretexts for refusing registration of civil society organisations that the ruling regime finds problematic. |
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| Let us not hide behind pretexts to achieve our objectives. |
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| The employers arbitrarily fined men for minor reasons, disallowed wages on false pretexts and victimised perceived radicals. |
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| It seems that the king was skillful at extracting money from his subjects on many pretexts including that of war with France or war with Scotland. |
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