The pretext was weak, even fishy.
The pretext is to prevent wires getting crossed, as happened during the Northern Rock fiasco.
They must allow for the truth and prevent the use of "national security" as a pretext for suppressing embarrassing news.
The first crash served as the pretext for the swiftest genocide in history. The second silenced its most dogged witness, a tiny American lady with silver hair.
In 2005 came another Bingham bombshell: evidence obtained by torture, no matter what the pretext, was unreliable, offensive and inadmissible in court.
Pricking the pretext of "Asian values".
To make use of anything as a pretext for Blackmailing
Men are particularly good at this; usually on the pretext they are “just keeping their head down”.
Thus, the slide in the greenback need not prompt every investor into urgent action, But it is an ideal pretext for asking whether you are globally diversified.
To make a pretext to Blackmail
Now, don't use this as a pretext to write code that performs lousy, just don't overdo it.
Q: Some experts are of the view that the us USES the South China Sea issue as a pretext for its return to Asia and attempts to cause troubles in this region.
One must not push too far in descent under pretext of a return to reason.
But if negotiations were already on track, Mr Netanyahu could point to them as reason-or pretext-to stop a new building splurge, while still keeping his pro-settler partners sweet.
The pretext for much of Shanghai's recent change, of course, is the hosting of the ongoing 2010 Expo, an event for which the city has spent untold billions.
to use as a pretext; to find a pretext; to invent an excuse
It marked an aggressive escalation in Iran's enrichment programme and its only civilian pretext to fuel the reactor.
