There was no difficulty in finding pretexts for interfering in the affairs of Egypt.
Caesar had no difficulty in finding pretexts for making war upon any of these various nations that he might desire to subdue.
I told them my plan," he says, "and gave the best pretexts I could, and I succeeded in my attempt.
Yet there is no one who wishes this to be done to him; from which we can easily perceive that such devices and pretexts are false.
He sought for various pretextsto send Veronica away, but the woman too discovered excellent reasons for not going out.
Among the frivolous pretexts for this refusal, the principal one was that our minister had not gone upon a special mission confined to the question of Texas alone, leaving all the outrages upon our flag and our citizens unredressed.
Neither of thesepretexts could be urged at the existing crisis in defence of Reginald Pole.
Notwithstanding this decision, the wily monarch wanted neither means nor pretexts to delay the ceding of such vast powers, so repugnant to his cautious policy.
These seditions furnish new pretexts for non-payment to the Church establishment, and help the Assembly wholly to get rid of the clergy, and indeed of any form of religion, which is not only their real, but avowed object.
But pretextsand sophisms have had their day, and have done their work.
With an unsettled frontier, and between neighbors of whom one is ambitious and the other barbarian, pretexts and even causes are never wanting.
He had there the same pretexts for attack and the same means of success.
The quarrels of the church and empire lend pretexts and furnish war-cries; but the real question at issue is not the supremacy of pope or emperor.
To this the pope assented under pressure from Napoleon; but the latter soon found other pretexts for intervention, and in February 1808 a French column under Miollis occupied Rome, and deposed the papal authorities.
Spain, France, Germany, with their Swiss auxiliaries, had been summoned upon various pretexts to partake her provinces.
Instead of executing a duty imposed by the plainest dictates of justice and good faith, pretexts were instantly sought for holding them in permanent captivity.
But this pretense of a Union party in the South, which the North, at first, declared a majority, was conveniently abandoned, when other pretexts were sought.
The brief recapitulation which we have given sufficiently exposes the pretextsupon which the North began the war of coercion.
The pretexts are always found in some specious appearance of a real good.
Seldom have two ages the same fashion in their pretextsand the same modes of mischief.
You would not secure men from tyranny and sedition, by rooting out of the mind the principles to which these fraudulent pretexts apply?
Philip evidently shrank from too positive insistence, and the Suprema on various pretexts continued to postpone the pardon.
He who makes no account of this great fact will find in the books of Moses, and in the Prophets, pretexts either for practising to-day what was tolerated only for a time, or for attacking the Scriptures, indignant at what they contain.
And under what pretexts do we chaffer with the government of Mr. Lincoln for those energetic, persevering sympathies on which it has a right to count?
They have besides both honourable and favourable pretexts with which to give reasonable satisfaction to the Senate.
Although I am not very ingenious, I would not want pretexts by which I might adroitly slip away, so that I should easily excuse myself in the sight of men, and shew that it was no fault of mine.
Other pretexts for internal strife were not lacking.
He commenced his reign with an act of characteristic flaccidity which was to serve as one of the pretexts for the insurrections against him.
We have no excuse for the violation of principles cogently taught by reason and example, nor for the allowance of pretexts which have sometimes exposed our lands to colossal greed.
It is perfectly clear that the only pretexts for giving this claimant a pension are military service, old age, and poverty.
Thus the rights and freedom of our citizens are outraged and public expenditures increased for the purpose of furnishing public officers pretexts for increasing the measure of their compensation.
It is certain that some of the worst crimes on record, assassinations and savage persecutions, have been defended on pretexts of this kind, by allegations of patriotism or devotion to a faith.
Thousands of intruders had settled themselves upon the lands of each of the five civilized tribes, where they remained upon various pretexts in spite of urgent and repeated appeals to the government by the Indians for their removal.
The German Navy constantly planned and committed violations of armament limitation and with characteristic German thoroughness had prepared superficial explanations or pretexts to explain away these violations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pretexts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
