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It says Starbucks brewed them up to give itself a pretext for grabbing back the best part of its business without paying for it.

They would call Sarah in, on a pretext, and watch her face; if she had been betraying them to Mr. Burgess, it would show in her manner.

Mired in debt, the city sold the building to an investor who found a pretext to terminate the leases.

He left her under some pretext, and went into the garden, and she saw him examining the gate with great attention.

The whole story was a pretext. He wanted me to leave the deck - so much was plain; but with what purpose I could in no way imagine.

One even hinted that some billboards might be taken down on the pretext that they were poorly made and might fall and cause accidents.

Remilia: From the beginning, the story of the treasure was just a pretext to lure you!

The government has stripped Mr Ivanishvili (and his wife) of their citizenship on a pretext and seized a few million dollars from his bank.

But those campaigning for sex-workers' rights have objected, fearing that this might give the police a pretext to renew the raids.

No man of vice can be condemned unless he ceases to look upon vice as a pretext and turns it into a goal.

5 For neither were we found at any time with flattering speech, even as you know, nor with a pretext for covetousness; God is witness.

"But we are against any other countries using Internet freedom as a pretext for interfering in others' internal affairs, " he said.

You'll notice that the earlier scenarios involve having a pretext or talking to people who have to talk with you.

Her husband started keeping concubines on the pretext of trying to carry on the family line and moved to Seoul to start a new business.

Intellectual property protection has sometimes been used as a pretext to silence dissent.

Only a pretext to shirk its responsibility, but a means of shielding officials of crime only.

The "disputed" scrap of land known as the Shebaa Farms is at most a pretext Hizbullah uses to justify its fighting.

The loan request provided the pretext, but by then the balance had already shifted and Britain could have done little to reverse the tide.

She had become a necessity to his heart, his only pretext, his only excuse, for living.

Panel on the second day of the meeting, this staff for their past performance has done a review, did not find any pretext.

He made a pretext of going to class But caMe. and saw Me. instead.

War, regardless of what happened pretext, the Federation of innocent people left to the body and soul of the pain!

By March 1898 the German Kaiser Wilhelm II took formal possession of the region with the two murdered German missionaries as a pretext.

But on this pretext it would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith" !

But it is thought he might withdraw, providing a convenient pretext to avoid a poll that will benefit mainly the Taliban.

Social barriers mainly refers to the laborers working environment and the right to life as a pretext to take trade protection measures.

Dozens of newspapers opened during the Khatami period, only for many to be shut down on one pretext or another by the judiciary.

and a number of Muslim activists saw the row as a wonderful pretext for promoting themselves and discrediting the West's Muslim allies.

On some suitable pretext Whymper was led through the store-shed and allowed to catch a glimpse of the bins .

Under the pretext of his wife's illness, Hua went back home.

He came to see me under the pretext of asking my advice when he really wanted to borrow money.

They were also used as a pretext to enforce the economic sanctions regime directed against Iran, adopted by the UN Security Council.

The U. S. closure of a Sadrist newspaper provided a handy pretext for an uprising in 2004.

If army influence wanes, it could provoke a crisis of its own making as a pretext to wrestle back control.

No entity or individual may organize the exhibiting activities under any other pretext.

This term will inevitably be used as a pretext by the authorities and scholars who used to shirk responsibility or make an explanation.

A defendant shall not be deprived on any pretext of his right to appeal.

Tests that are presented under the pretext of learning are actually used to brand a school and its kids as satisfactory or sub-par.

A lame man obtained some money from several benevolent persons by making a pretext of being a returned soldier who was disabled in the war.

We hope they will not make use of any grey area in the ordinance to come up with any pretext for cutting their paid meal hours or days off.

They must allow for the truth and prevent the use of "national security" as a pretext for suppressing embarrassing news.

She invited him to live her with a reasonable pretext that the house is remote and she is timid.

We have lost so subjective things on the right judgement, so we started to evade the pretext used to cover also the self-deception.

The other woman or the other man merely serves as a pretext for dissolving a marriage that had already lost its essential integrity.

It is man's demands made against his fate; the demands of the poor are but a pretext.

It is hard to see how the bomb adds a vital pretext.

So why have you decided to let us have our things now? Can't think of a pretext to keep them?

My crush, Addie, and I have run out of things to talk about so I will pretext to avoid any awkward silences.

The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the cure, and both had paid the colonel a visit, on some pretext or other.

Arab leaders have long practice of using Israel as a pretext for maintaining states of emergency at home and putting off reform.

When she wanted to say something spiteful, the pretext was the Countess Marya.

He required a pretext to participate in Soviet Bureaucratic decisions was to elevate chutzpah into an art form.

However, with the pretext of international cultural exchanges, more scholars show their suspicion of or opposition to, this method.

Mr. Yan, the writer, wants to know the truth about the road project, which he believes is a pretext to clear valuable land.

The police have used the Olympics as a pretext to extend the [re-education through labour] system.

To hearing not good me, the study speech is an arduous challenge, but I do not take the hearing disturbance my escape study the pretext!

Get the men aboard with this false pretext and seize the ships when the fleet is out to sea.

The wretched state of Kashmir serves as a pretext for Pakistani hostility to India.

From the context of the text, I find the next pretext for selling the textile.

Saddam's treatment of the Kurds is genocide and cannot be excused on any pretext.

It is much more likely that the attack was planned in advance but that Pyongyang used the South Korean drills as a pretext.

is a pretext for letting you know that I'm sexually available.

Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with a view to confiscate them and leaving the populace helpless.

It marked an aggressive escalation in Iran's enrichment programme and its only civilian pretext to fuel the reactor.

In Egypt too, Arab socialism soon became little more than a pretext for dictatorship and reckless policies at home and abroad.

Disobedience to Jeffs' dictates is the usual pretext for the expulsions , but they also remedy a huge imbalance in the marriage market.

As Rosenblatt notes, criticism of Black writing has often served as a pretext for expounding on Black history.

He came to see me on the pretext of asking my advice.

When the country experienced its worst floods in living memory, it was used as a pretext to increase the bombings.

The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq.

Tom called at her apartment on the pretext of asking for a book.

It cannot fire women or unilaterally annul their labor contracts on the pretext of marriage, pregnancy, maternity leave or baby nursing.

Russia has repeatedly accused Georgia of breaking the ceasefire agreement: that could be one pretext.

The rain furnished him with a good pretext.

The "crime" needed as a pretext to rectify these peculiarities was not hard to find, or invent.

He flatly denies that he and Mr Blair used false intelligence as a pretext and intended to invade come what may.

Try to lead a happy life, no one has the pretext to live a obscure life, thinking about you parents.

And some of the anxiety about mining stocks is merely a pretext to preach the merits of actively managed funds, with higher fees.

Australia and other anti-whaling nations regularly accuse Tokyo of using research as a pretext for commercial hunting.

Every person I meet, every scent on this street is a pretext for my measureless love.

But many Uzbeks claim the security forces are using that as a pretext to extort money from residents.

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.

With the FIFA World Cup as a pretext, the Brazilians set about building the biggest football stadium in the world.

The real psychological uneven start, out, "When one side is not known couples" as a pretext to broken.

Many think the non-existent weapons of mass destruction were a pretext, too.

We oppose the Dalai Lama engaging in activities overseas aimed at splitting the motherland under any name or pretext.

China strongly opposes the practice of interfering in other's internal affairs under the pretext of the death penalty issue.

In each case, says Pastor William, blasphemy laws are used as a pretext for attacks on religious minorities.

Translation is a kind of the transformation of intertextuality, for the original text is the pretext of the target text.

The pretext is to prevent wires getting crossed, as happened during the Northern Rock fiasco.

And at this point in time, YunXing ink company the first shareholder intends to transfer pretext chemical held YunXing ink company shares.

This was designed to provide a pretext for direct intervention.

is firmly opposed to interference in other country's internal affairs under any pretext and by any means.

Oh, there was some other 'pretext, but that was the real reason.

He absented himself from the meeting on the pretext of illness.

CHEN Yunlin. FIDH believes that such arrests and violence are grave violations of human rights, under the pretext of national security.

But when I started a conversation under the pretext of the weather (1) I found many had a natural gift for gossip.

The West should use the dodgy election as a pretext for political change.

It could not find any colourable pretext for refusing the few hundred thousands required by the teachers, and it capitulated in panic.

I must point out that it's ridiculous to violate Chinese people's fundamental cultural rights under the pretext of human rights.

He left immediately on the pretext that he had a train to catch.

The article also accused the US of using the Pyongyang nuclear program as a pretext to isolate the DPRK.

The authorities have a worrying record of tolerating thuggery by groups using Islamic orthodoxy as a pretext.

There are always people who are seizing on this pretext to assault Mexicans , even just verbally.

It is high-flying for American to make trade frictions frequently on the pretext of goods trade imbalance.

Maybe they're wrong, of course, or maybe that's a pretext offered to squelch a threat to their corporate pay masters.

Thereupon the emperor hid the young falcon inside his sleeve, thinking to quickly send Weizheng off on some pretext.

never under any pretext diversion, deduction, the wages owed to farmers!

Production capacity once eliminated must never be put to use again under any pretext or in any form.

The US Government persecuted him under the pretext of various " unwarranted' charges. "

It was her pleasure and her vanity to drag in these names on every pretext.

The investigation, say some, has become a mere pretext to round up the government's critics.

If they be indigent, let him provide for them as indigents, but let him not trade off things of the Church under this pretext.

Of course, certain persons used this slogan as a pretext for misleading the people.

I will go and give my battery to Laoliang tomorrow! But I don't want to have heard any pretext! !

use as a pretext He found an excuse and left.

The difficulty beyond this is to proceed to the summit without motivation and without pretext.

Written in the form of direct borrowing on the pretext usually be regarded as Chinese foreign words, such as album, Story.

Men are particularly good at this; usually on the pretext they are "just keeping their head down" .

The ECB might launch a programme of bond-buying on the pretext that a deep recession in the euro area threatens deflation.

the hawks would then lose heart in upholding the settlement , and the doves would have a pretext for not supporting it.

You always have pretext for temporily preventing our website's development.

By 1400, the pretext of the play remained religious, but the theater was already profane (Hindley, 1965).

There are two roughnecks helping the driller get everything pretext ady for running in hole.

And it has been the cause, or the pretext, for many of the hard-line policies of the Putin presidency.

Or the obscenity laws may be used as a pretext to censor other material.

Sustainability is the pretext behind which maximium profit is after.

"We will absolutely not allow Taiwan to secede from China under any pretext or in any manner, " Cao said.

Pricking the pretext of "Asian values"

The incident provided the pretext for war.

'Yes, mom, I feel seedy only. It doesn't matter. I will be fine after sleeping. ' He realizes it is a good pretext.

This will not be the ninth city in order to cover up poor quality server daily N cards under the pretext of Na?

There is no sense in fastening on that pretext of yours.

Dr Polivy and her colleagues recruited 106 female undergraduates on the pretext of rating a new brand of cookie.

We'll have to find a pretext for not going to the party.

He didn't attend the meeting under the pretext of sickness.

So we marked time, using the need to end the Vietnam war as a pretext .

have to find a pretext for not going to the party.

"But we are firmly against interfering in our internal affairs under the pretext of human rights issues, " Hong said.

I will not 'pretext' and snoop on fellow board members.

The pretext was weak, even fishy .

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

He cheated me under the pretext of friendship.

will always find a pretext FOR his tyranny.

He fled away under the pretext of seeing a doctor.

This allows to find a pretext for the US-British coalition.

Hutchison few overflow timer, interrupt, will take anti-P1. 0 pretext that a square wave cycle.

The child used his sore finger as a pretext for not going to school.

And the reason is a pretext for the sale, any traffic jam ah, what is happening at home from the provisional body can not ah, and so on.

Lessors and lessees should actively cooperate, and can not under any pretext, in any way to doing.

I very much hope that it can be lost, as I will have a pretext to postpone the departure.

You never know when an annoying person borrows this on the pretext of needing a pen and never return it.

In fact, no strong person, and they are just to their cry and find a pretext.

Don't always use a headache as a pretext for not going to school!

He used his headache as a pretext for not going to school.

The vague economic logic of the argument is a pretext for Wilde to vent his rage on an audience that treated him as an amusing sideshow

The far wiser policy would have been to hang back and make it harder for Putin to find a pretext for invasion.

To infringe upon Chinese people's cultural rights on the pretext of human rights is just ridiculous

which gave again the western powers the pretext to interference with China

pretense a professed but feigned reason or excuse; a pretext:

use "aid" as a pretext for plunder

under the pretext of employment difficulty

on the pretext of; use an excuse or pretext

By any means or under any pretext

All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another;

under what pretext did you lure her here

try to find a pretext for himself;

So, what can not protect the people under the pretext of safeguarding the interests of minority vested interests ;