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  • noun Plural form of pretext.

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  • Subsequently the US will have to withdraw under various pretexts from the conflicts it unleashed unless its victory will be complete and obvious.

    plausible russian predictions 2008

  • Subsequently the US will have to withdraw under various pretexts from the conflicts it unleashed unless its victory will be complete and obvious.

    04 « September « 2008 « Niqnaq 2008

  • From Ken Y-N: Sigh, I see you posting links to your latest posts on very thin pretexts on this and other blogs.

    Hay fever sufferers and prevention in Japan 2008

  • And they give it to me under false pretexts, which is pretexting which is against the California law, which is why the California attorney general is going in.

    CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2006 2006

  • And they give it to me under false pretexts, which is pretexting which is against the California law, which is why the California attorney general is going in.

    CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2006 2006

  • Benyon's ignorance of her pretexts is a proof that this rather oddly-mated couple never arrived at perfect intimacy, -- in spite of a fact which remains to be related.

    Georgina's Reasons Henry James 1879

  • They discussed a new edict of Montesquieu's, and the necessity of arming themselves in case of violence on the marshal's part: thus it was nothing less than the beginning of a civil war, for which the pretexts were the impiety of the regent's court and Dubois's sacrileges; pretexts which would arouse the anathemas of an essentially religious province, against a reign so little worthy to succeed that of Louis XIV.

    Une fille du régent. English Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • Here, Judge Robertson found that, despite the Library's protests that it had no problem with Diane Schroer's gender identity, some of the "legitimate" reasons given by the Library for failure to hire Schroer were "pretexts" -- untrue.

    The Bilerico Project 2008

  • Here, Judge Robertson found that, despite the Library's protests that it had no problem with Diane Schroer's gender identity, some of the "legitimate" reasons given by the Library for failure to hire Schroer were "pretexts" -- untrue.

    The Bilerico Project 2008

  • Here, Judge Robertson found that, despite the Library's protests that it had no problem with Diane Schroer's gender identity, some of the "legitimate" reasons given by the Library for failure to hire Schroer were "pretexts" -- untrue.

    The Bilerico Project 2008

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  • Meanwhile, over on "Hay fever sufferers and prevention in Japan", Ken Y-N is bringing of the snark. sigh.

    October 21, 2011