Synonym: cover, excuse, pretense, sham. Similar words: pretending, pretentious, pretentiousness, text, texture, context, textbook, concrete. Meaning: ['prɪːtekst] n. 1. something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason 2. an artful or simulated semblance.
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(91) Permits for ships' entry into and departure from ports shall be handled by the Harbour Bureau, and no other organ may obstruct or detain the ships under any pretext.
(92) The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq.
(93) But on this pretext it would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!
(94) The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the cure, and both had paid the colonel a visit, on some pretext or other.
(95) There is no sense in fastening on that pretext of yours.
(96) The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.
(97) The far wiser policy would have been to hang back and make it harder for Putin to find a pretext for invasion.
(98) This is, at least partially, an ill-founded pretext for being immature.
(99) The important ways of impairment of citizen's property include conduct under the pretext of public interests, maladministration, remissness of duty, misuse of authority.
(100) By March 1898 the German Kaiser Wilhelm II took formal possession of the region with the two murdered German missionaries as a pretext.
(101) The boy refuses to go to school on [ under ] the pretext of illness [ an ailment, sickness ].
(102) Second, the Vatican must not interfere in China's internal affairs on the pretext of religious affairs.
(103) He came to see me on the pretext of asking my advice.
(104) When in high school, to tell the truth, I liked blackout,(http://sentencedict.com/pretext.html) for I could find a pretext for me to stop study.
(105) The "one-party allocution" system was set up by Sun Yat-sen but was also restricted, which left a pretext for the attack from the community.
(106) So we marked time , using the need to end the Vietnam war as a pretext.
(107) The network media by the use is by actually the disassimilation medium authority, is only this kind of medium authority on the pretext of for some kind of dissemination technology.
(108) A tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.
(109) We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq.
(110) It could not find any colourable pretext for refusing the few hundred thousands required by the teachers, and it capitulated in panic.
(111) However, the existence of those challenges can by no means serve as a pretext for us to withdraw into our nationalistic mindset, to pose China in diametric opposition to the rest of the world.
(112) There has been recurrent talk by the government of registering all Internet users, and many worry that a wave of online threats and vigilantism could serve as a pretext to impose new limits on users.
(113) And lest by reason of any pretext of ecclesiastical property that of the Bishop be submerged, be it that he has a wife and children, or relatives, or house servants.
(114) He used his sore throat as a pretext for not going to school.
(115) The seeming failure of the urban offers an exceptional opportunity, a pretext for Nietzschean frivolity.
(116) All Bin Laden's rhetoric is but pretext for his malicious anti - humanity and anti - civilization heretic religion.
(117) Cattle as a result of favoritism and bribery Gao, under the pretext of no evidence, inadmissible.
(118) I won′t remain supperless even though you refute every one of my imputations . "The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny."
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