pretext in the PONS Dictionary

pretext Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

on the pretext of doing sth
pod izgovorom da nešto treba da se uradi

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Thus, nature and elements they become the pretext upon which the artist pushed the colour to get the effect felt.
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In 2003, a.s.h was the topic of a series of under the pretext of examining the group's role in the deaths of several depressed individuals.
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The bride was summoned on the pretext of a meal and told the news, and that she will get nothing of his property.
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Officers of the law gave perjured testimony and presented fabricated evidence as a pretext for false arrests and wrongful imprisonment.
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It became both text and pretext for an activity of picture-making.
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And there was not even the pretext of principled decisionmaking.
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The decision to declare war had been made six months earlier so the territorial dispute appears to be only a pretext.
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He possibly lured her into his flat under the pretext of offering her work.
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This was made a pretext to annex the building.
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It was seized upon as the first of several pretexts to shove him out the door.
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