“There's a lot of pretext strikes, I can tell you, ... That's part of what a judge has to do, is find out if that [reason cited by a lawyer] is true.”
Henry Wade
“In case anyone intends to raise a pretext, they are just after seeking pretexts (to refer Iran's nuclear case to the UN Security Council),”
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.”
Kate Chopin
“Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.”
William Hurrell Mallock
“China is firmly opposed to Lee Teng-hui carrying out any activities in Japan under any pretext.”
Zhang Qiyue
“Indonesia is also a democracy that upholds freedom of expression, but such freedom cannot be used as a pretext to insult a religion.”
Yuri Thamrin
“He would rob some sex workers who he 'lifted' on the pretext of seeking sex and he sometimes also raped his victims.”
David Magara
