A pretext (adj.: pretextual) is a false reason for an action given to conceal the true motivation. A person may give a pretext because if others understood...

Pretexting, known in the UK as blagging, is a type of social engineering attack that involves a situation, or pretext, created by an attacker in order...

wars". A casus belli intentionally based on inaccurate facts is known as a pretext. This section outlines a number of the more famous and/or controversial...

bank account details. Pretexting, also known in the UK as blagging, is the act of creating and using an invented scenario (the pretext) to engage a targeted...

Aldous Leonard Huxley (/ˈɔːldəs/ AWL-dəs; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books...

saw as the country's right to rule Asia, staged the Mukden incident as a pretext to invade Manchuria and establish the puppet state of Manchukuo. China...

A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies is a 2004 book by journalist James Bamford that takes a highly critical...

lure a victim to his home and dupe them into donning handcuffs on the pretext of demonstrating a magic trick. He would then rape and torture his captive...

related to drug possession, and uses a minor traffic infringement as a pretext to stop the driver. In the case of Whren, the defense used a "would-have"...

for Sudeten Germans from the Czechoslovak government, thus providing a pretext for German military action against Czechoslovakia. In April 1938, Henlein...

volunteered to join the Russian forces and the Ottoman government used this as a pretext to issue the Tehcir Law (Law on Deportation), which authorised the deportation...

permitted temporary leave from his position at the NSA in Hawaii, on the pretext of receiving treatment for his epilepsy. In mid-May, Snowden gave an electronic...

Socialism. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674339460. Roosa, John (2006). Pretext for Mass Murder: 30 September Movement and Suharto's Coup d'État in Indonesia...

insurgency, the United States used the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident as a pretext for increasing its contribution of military advisers. US forces became...

1938 by a Polish Jewish teenager, Herschel Grynszpan, which was used as a pretext for Kristallnacht, "The Night of Broken Glass" on 9–10 November 1938. Historians...

charges of Iraqi resistance to U.N access to suspected weapons were the pretext for crises between 1997 and 1998, culminating in intensive U.S. and British...

Kusuma, he emotionally blackmails Lavana into exhuming the grave under the pretext of a ritual, covertly stealing a portion of the skeletal remains. When...

that Russia knew its "unrealistic demands" would be rejected, giving it a pretext to invade. No countries bordering Russia had joined NATO since 2004. Ukraine...

Empire Hungarian Revolutionary Army Kingdom of Hungary Russian Empire Pretext April Laws Major battles Pákozd Schwechat Mór Kápolna Battles of Komárom...

Amoria praetexta, common name the pretext volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. The length...

way Brij Bhushan used to touch their breasts and stomach sexually on the pretext of checking their breath, in a police complaint on 21 April 2023. One of...

were executed. The Iranian government used the MEK's failed invasion as a pretext for the mass execution of those "who remained steadfast in their support...

Heydrich to confirm what Smith has suspected, a conspiracy to create a pretext for war with and extermination of the Japanese. Smith executes Heydrich...

Communist coup d'état as well a pretended state of "social chaos" became pretexts for a coup. Franco himself along with General Emilio Mola had stirred an...

subjective biases against men. He claimed his role was eliminated as a pretext and given to a woman recently hired by editor-in-chief Megan Lieberman...

88, not 4000. The claims were believed by many, which gave Khomeini a pretext to reject any further compromise with the government. The Shah was horrified...

materialism caused by Westernized democracy. This provided them with a pretext to promote militarism and weakened the Taishō Democracy. In the infamous...

Misra, Ishan; Maaten, Laurens van der (2020). Self-Supervised Learning of Pretext-Invariant Representations. 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision...

power with the other. Possibly using the failure of the two peers as a pretext, George immediately reappointed the Perceval administration, with Lord...

emotionally manipulated into financially supporting his lavish lifestyle on the pretext he needed the money to escape his "enemies". An Israeli man, born Shimon...

Septicius Clarus, was dismissed for the same alleged reason, perhaps a pretext to remove him from office. Hadrian spent the winter of 122/123 at Tarraco...

nullification: "the tariff was only the pretext, and disunion and southern confederacy the real object. The next pretext will be the negro, or slavery question"...

to the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease in August 1944. Commissioned as HMS Pretext (Z284), she served the United Kingdom until she was returned to United...

Alexander II (r. 1855–1881). However, his assassination in 1881 served as a pretext for further repression, such as the May Laws of 1882. Konstantin Pobedonostsev...

government, at the insistence of war minister Aleksey Kuropatkin, used the pretext of Boxer activity to move some 200,000 troops led by Paul von Rennenkampf...

2004 that the occupation of Iraq had become "a potent global recruitment pretext" for Mujahideen and that the invasion "galvanised" al-Qaeda and "perversely...

status), of which Hitler granted only 12. Anthony Gottlieb writes that the pretext was that their paternal grandfather had been the bastard son of a German...

that the Swedish allegations were designed to discredit him and were a pretext for his extradition from Sweden to the United States. Assange breached...

National Security Archive on 30 April 2001. Responding to a request for pretexts for military intervention by the Chief of Operations of the Cuba Project...

coming-of-age and subsequent coronation deprived them of the Frondeurs' pretext for revolt. The Fronde thus gradually lost steam and ended in 1653, when...

such pressure could have been brought to bear. Beneath these immediate pretexts lay an older grievance: the dynastic claim to the French throne first pursued...

justifications for waging war in Ukraine, which had been started under a pretext of "denazification", among other stated reasons. Rota resigned as speaker...

nationalists) accept that the question of the holy places was no more than a pretext for the Crimean War. As conflict emerged over the issue of the holy places...

from power. The campaign ended in a Doroshenko's surrender and became a pretext for the Chyhyryn campaigns of 1677 and 1678. The Russian forces and the...

as documentaries of the naturist lifestyle. In fact this was largely a pretext to exploit a loophole in censorship laws restricting the exhibition of...

enemy nations or terrorists, thus giving the nation that attacked itself a pretext for domestic repression or foreign military aggression (as well as to engender...

After he became Nawab he began searching for a pretext to drive the company from his lands. The first pretext centered around Kissendass, the son of a high-ranking...

tension between the kings of France and England over territory; the official pretext was the interruption of the direct male line of the Capetian dynasty.[citation...

of the Reich deposed the Prussian government on 20 July 1932, under the pretext that the latter had lost control of public order in Prussia (during the...

recruited private investigators who used a spying technique known as pretexting. The pretexting involved investigators impersonating HP board members and nine...

all hopes of finding a peaceful solution gone, Caesar used Antony as a pretext for marching on Rome. As tribune, Antony's person was sacrosanct, so it...

Tunisian international debt grew unmanageable. This was the reason or pretext for French forces to establish a protectorate in 1881. In 1869, Tunisia...

led down into a half-basement room at the back of the Ipatiev house. The pretext for this move was the family's safety, i.e. that anti-Bolshevik forces...

Celle, both committed adultery. In 1694 the marriage was dissolved on the pretext that Sophia Dorothea had abandoned her husband. She was confined to Ahlden...

Consciousness, Columbia University Press, 2010 pp. 215–16, n. 22: 'The pretext later invoked for the shootings was that the Palestinians inside the Haram...

Railroad company and blamed the warlord Marshal Zhang Xueliang. On this pretext the Kwantung Army began a general offensive with the aim of conquering...

disaffected voices in an act of continual regeneration, cycling through targets, pretexts, manifestoes, and moralisms". Polygon's Grant said that as of October 2014...

release Orhan as a challenger unless the tribute money might've provided a pretext for the siege Constantinople, although preparations for the siege had already...

international observers suggested that the espionage claims were a baseless pretext for fulfilling a long-held ambition to reduce the Afghan population and...

Germany staged a false flag attack on the tower in 1939, which was used as a pretext for invading Poland, beginning World War II. The Gliwice Radio Tower is...

violations in Andijan are invented by the enemies of Uzbekistan as a convenient pretext for intervention in the country's internal affairs. Male and female homosexuality...

originates from children using the pretend roles of doctor and patient as a pretext for such an examination. However, whether or not such role-playing is involved...

software and open-source hardware. The tragedy of the commons has served as a pretext for powerful private companies and/or governments to introduce regulatory...

civilians was conducted with the apparent sanction of the commanders on the pretext that Chinese soldiers had removed their uniforms and were mingling with...

attack in the middle of December, Furuta was beaten by the group, on the pretext that Miyano had stepped on a puddle of her urine, after which he burned...

incident, a false flag event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext to invade. At the war's end in February 1932, the Japanese established...

public demands to reattach the annexed territory in 1938 and become a pretext for Hitler's annexations of Czechoslovakia and parts of Poland. According...

to the prevailing war policies and the ubiquitous corruption. Under the pretext that he spoke to his communist brother, Châu was accused of treason in...

in 1827, the so-called 'Fan Affair' ('Fly Whisk Incident'), served as a pretext to initiate a blockade against the port of Algiers. After three years of...

spaces, restrooms, and cafeterias. Many agencies used segregation as a pretext to adopt a whites-only employment policy, claiming they lacked facilities...

Motives suggested by the movement include the use of the attacks as a pretext to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and to create opportunities to curtail...

March 1936 Hitler used the Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance as a pretext to order the army to march 3,000 troops into the demilitarised zone in...

political violence that took place during the Reichstag election campaign as a pretext, he ousted the SPD-led coalition government of Prussia in the Prussian...

Telephone Records and Privacy Protection Act of 2006 (H109-4709) prohibits pretexting to buy, sell or obtain personal phone records, except when conducted by...

gave France the right to occupy certain parts of the country with the pretext of protecting the Sultan from internal opposition, and to hold actual reins...

hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of...

an attempt to provoke the Ukrainian army to retaliate, to give Russia a pretext for invading. Ukraine's president Zelenskyy said that his military would...

conflicts in the Middle East Note that scholars describe this variously as a pretext (i.e. an excuse for a pre-planned invasion) or as the actual provocation...

Between 1954 and 1983, many old neighborhoods were demolished under this pretext for expansion, particularly in the northern areas such as Bab al-Faraj...

mines left by retreating Soviet soldiers, and the Germans used this as a pretext to take revenge on the local Jews, whom the explosions were blamed on....

Döring, a German agent in Bucharest, which was used by the Iron Guard as a pretext to accuse the Conducător of having a secret anti-German agenda, and made...

Kandil, without Nasser's authorization, Amer used the Soviet warnings as a pretext to dispatch troops to Sinai on 14 May, and Nasser subsequently demanded...

November 1962, the British declined to support the operation without a pretext, noting that Lim and the Barisan Sosialis had not broken any laws. The...

opera house. The immense debt resulting from Isma'il's projects provided a pretext for increasing European control, which culminated with the British invasion...

Brussels overall. Expo 58 left a deep impression on Belgium. It was also the pretext for major upheavals and works in Brussels, whose boulevards were transformed...

at the University of Bonn. When Hitler and his army chiefs asked for a pretext for the invasion of Poland in 1939, Himmler, Heydrich, and Heinrich Müller...

starving populace and flew to Sweden to bring back medical supplies on the pretext of visiting her sister, Crown Princess Louise. She organised two shelters...

treatment for her father. He continues to come to her house often, more on the pretext of seeing her than her father. Eventually, they get married. Years pass...

also ordered a large-scale attack on Algiers between 1682 and 1683 on the pretext of assisting and rescuing enslaved Christians, usually Europeans taken...

sexually fondling a 13-year-old boy whom he had lured to his home on the pretext of posing nude for photographs. Dahmer's father hired attorney Gerald Boyle...

Rath on November 7, 1938 in Paris. The Nazis used this assassination as a pretext to launch Kristallnacht, "The Night of Broken Glass", the pogrom of 9–10...

brother Nicholas became tsar in 1825. The succession controversy became the pretext of the Decembrist revolt. Konstantin was known to eschew court etiquette...

during a dispute over unpaid French debts to Algeria. That insult became a pretext for the French invasion of Algeria in 1830. Chamara (fly-whisk) as regalia...

that the Maharajs in Bombay were abusing their female followers under the pretext of reenacting the love between the young Krishna and the milk maidens called...

the March of Ancona and the Duchy of Spoleto. Gregory IX used this as pretext for direct military action against the emperor, and called for an unprecedented...

Heinrich Himmler and his deputy, Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, as a pretext for carrying out German Führer Adolf Hitler's plan to invade Poland. A...

in the School of Friendship library, organizing books on shelves as a pretext to spy on her fellow students' conversations. While the backstory of Cozy...

Armenians expected to be killed, but if they refused, it would provide a pretext for massacres. Armenians fortified themselves in Van and repelled the Ottoman...

(602–610) in 602, however, Khosrow II used the murder of his benefactor as a pretext to begin a new invasion, which benefited from continuing civil war in the...

grandfather Ferdinand took control of all the Spanish kingdoms, under the pretext of protecting Charles's rights, which in reality he wanted to elude. Ferdinand's...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pretense or pretence may refer to: pretext pretexting (social engineering) "Pretense" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of Stargate...

multiple acts of terrorism in U.S. cities and blame Cuba, thus providing a pretext for invasion. Time magazine contrasted events which inspired past conspiracy...

the Germans. Afterwards, Strasser has Renault close the club on a flimsy pretext. Later, Ilsa confronts Rick in the deserted café; when he refuses to give...

scheme he has devised to murder and rob an elderly pawnbroker. On the pretext of pawning a watch, he visits her apartment, but he remains unable to commit...

kindled the deadly rivalry between Gaius Marius and Sulla, and provided the pretext for Sulla's unexpected march on Rome. Publius Sulpicius Rufus was probably...

powers not granted; and, on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not...

original on 14 June 2026. Retrieved 14 June 2026. Roosa, John (2006). Pretext for Mass Murder: The September 30th Movement and Suharto's Coup D'état...

incident was a false flag event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria. On September 18, 1931, Lieutenant...

seven members of a Dalit family were assaulted by a group of people on the pretext of cow protection in Una in Gujarat, India. The video of the incident was...

was peaceful but the armed government militias charged the crowd on the pretext of an attempt to arrest a leader of the meeting. The behaviour of the crowd...

the Jin in 1117. At first, an envoy was sent to the Jin court under the pretext of buying horses, but in reality it was the start of negotiations between...

while Prussia intended to annex Austria. The disagreement served as a pretext for the Austro-Prussian War that broke out in June 1866. In July, the two...

Yorishige. Suwa was escorted back to the provincial capital of Kōfu under "the pretext of safe conduct, but he was then forced to commit suicide." Turnbull, Stephen...

Rwanda have opportunistically exploited the presence of the FDLR as a pretext for broader political and economic ambitions in eastern DRC, particularly...

account login information and banking codes. It has also been used as a pretext by scammers whom claim that their victim has been affected by this malware...

Rome. Rome used Carthaginian military activity against the Numidians as a pretext to declare war again in 149 BC starting the Third Punic War. In 146 BC...

the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any colour or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the...

her mother decided to end the situation and fled with Elliott on the pretext of taking a joyride on a local bus. In reality, the pair had found refuge...

ally Numidia, though initiated by the latter, nonetheless provided the pretext for Rome to declare war. The Third Punic War was a much smaller and shorter...

princes, rebelled against the Jianwen Emperor in 1399. He did this under the pretext of acting against allegedly corrupt court officials who had influenced...

Keaton was actually Keyser Söze: he organized the assault on the boat as a pretext for assassinating the smuggler and faking his death. Verbal confesses that...

and preferring to use the high-occupancy carpool vehicle lane, or the pretext of needing directions from a local when in a new town, such as London (with...

seized upon such a silly pretext be freed from imprisonment and that they shall not be arrested henceforth on such a miserable pretext, unless – which we do...

with French demands. Rosebery sent some British gunboats to Bangkok under pretext to protect British subjects just to please the Siamese as the British vessels...

Russo-Ukrainian crisis, stating: "We cannot accept that now, without even the pretext of competition between different political and economic systems, the winds...

nationalities who disliked and distrusted them was eventually used as a pretext for German aggression in World War II. The League of Nations was established...

deputy of the fictional mining town of Desperation. Entragian uses various pretexts for the abductions, from an arrest for drug possession to "rescuing" a...

order to incite part of the population to rise up and eventually have a pretext for crushing Paris as a rebellious force. The Paris Commune inspired other...

state delivered in violation of international law under a far-fetched pretext.... a serious blow to Russian-US relations, which are already in a poor...

an hour later. In it, he stated that he was resigning to eliminate the "pretext for the invasion", and that he wished to preserve the gains of the October...

unsuspecting women to French North Africa for prostitution, under the pretext of hiring them as cabaret performers. Mario finds this business distasteful...

filibusterismo to their memory. Mutiny by workers in the Cavite Naval Yard was the pretext needed by the authorities to redress a perceived humiliation from the principal...

more fled to Olynthos. According to Justin, this provided Philip with the pretext of attacking Olynthos and the Chalkidian League. Philip finally began his...

Rebellion in 1900, Russian forces used that anti-foreigner insurgency as a pretext to formally invade and occupy most of Manchuria, and Mukden became a Russian...

successfully denigrated its patchy Christianity as heresy; in turn rendering a pretext to reassert their authority in Bosnia. Hungarian efforts to gain the loyalty...

Pushyamitra, while parading the entire Mauryan Army before Brihadratha on the pretext of showing him the strength of the army, crushed his master. Pushyamitra...

rule for six weeks (see Pakistani state of emergency, 2007), under the pretext of rising Islamist militancy, a few days after Bhutto's departure for Dubai...

the ostensible subject of the German-Czechoslovak dispute, had been a pretext for German aggression. During the Munich Conference, Ribbentrop spent much...

used the murder of an Italian general on the Greco-Albanian border as a pretext to bombard and temporarily occupy Corfu, the most important of the Ionian...

allies of the Romans. The exile of their ally Verica gave the Romans a pretext for invasion. The Roman army was recruited in Italia, Hispania, and Gaul...

human colony leader starts bombing the octospider city under a made-up pretext and the octospiders retaliate, the situation becomes dire enough that Rama's...

zones and used the Mexican government's failure to suppress the raids as a pretext for declaring independence. The Texas Revolution or Texas War of Independence...

Facebook, lured from her residence in Abuja to a Lagos hotel under the pretext of business, then drugged, tied up, robbed, raped, beaten and strangled...

Agency, is that international criticism of its human rights record is a pretext for overthrowing its Juche-based system, while the abuses of its critics...

fear of an insurgency while he was away. During the expedition, under the pretext that he had discovered a conspiracy against him, Cortés had all three strangled...

with bombs") to the Gleiwitz incident, a false flag operation used as pretext for the invasion. Rommel attended Hitler's daily briefings and accompanied...

The 1913 Ottoman coup d'état (23 January 1913), also known as the Raid on the Sublime Porte (Turkish: Bâb-ı Âlî Baskını), was a coup d'état carried out...

of a "police action" was used by President Harry S. Truman as a legal pretext for ordering US troops to Korea in June 1950 without first requesting congressional...

stopped at the Venetian Kingdom of Candia on the way; this was used as a pretext for the decades-long Cretan War which broke out between the Ottomans and...

the 1846 intervention and the 1848 intervention. The Dutch used as a pretext Balinese salvage claims over shipwrecks, which were customary to the Balinese...

Ukrainian "attack" as a pretext for a further invasion of Ukraine. The Russian government denied any plans to orchestrate a pretext for an invasion. U.S...

press was housed in their apartment first in Vilnius, then in Łódź. A pretext of regular family life made them less suspect. Also, Russian law protected...

disarming Bolshevik troops in its territory. The ultimatum, seen as a pretext for occupation of Ukraine, was declined by Kyiv. At the same time, the...

first-hand the French occupation of Spain in 1808, when Napoleon used the pretext of reinforcing his army in Portugal to seize the Spanish throne, leaving...

activity having tacit approval from the state police leadership. Under the pretext of maintaining law and order, central state actions in the form of false...

1947, VOA started broadcasting to the Soviet citizens in Russia under the pretext of countering "more harmful instances of Soviet propaganda directed against...

Some have argued the false WMD allegations were used as a deliberate pretext for war. Various unsubstantiated conjectures were put forward that the...

either tzedakah or the leader's needs. Occasions in the "court" serve as a pretext for mass gatherings, flaunting the power, wealth and size of each. Weddings...

(Christian) Armenians as liable to ally with Imperial Russia, and used it as a pretext to deal with the entire Armenian population as an enemy within their empire...

fire—the 1933 arson of the German parliament building that Hitler used as a pretext to suspend civil liberties and prosecute political opposition—some calling...

Japanese military forces on the Russian Maritime Provinces, as part of a pretext by larger effort by western powers and Japan to support White Russian forces...

the slogan "Home to the Reich!". However, the Danzig crisis was just a pretext for war. Ribbentrop ordered Count Hans-Adolf von Moltke, the German ambassador...

Armenians. Thus, killings, massacres and deportations continued under the pretext of the national movement of Mustafa Kemal (later Atatürk). In an October...

took advantage of the unrest in Qarakhanid territories and, under the pretext of rescuing those suffering under Ali Tigin’s oppression, launched a campaign...

Hyderabad and prevent the accession of Hyderabad to India. One of the pretexts for Operation Polo by India which led to its annexation of Hyderabad was...

the power of some of the old houses decreased and in 1310, under the pretext of defeat in the War of Ferrara, these families organized themselves in...

democratic regime of Hernán Siles Zuazo arrested Barbie in La Paz on the pretext of his owing the government US$10,000 for goods he was supposed to have...

Czechoslovakia. The alleged miracle was used by Communist authorities as a pretext for anti-religious repression. The priest Josef Toufar was tortured and...

Armenian resistance in the city and then used this insurgency as the main pretext to justify beginning the deportation and slaughter of Armenians throughout...

dissuade Amar from marrying Seema using a pretext but Amar is adamant and marries Seema. Soon he learns Rajiv's pretext was a way of separating him and Seema...

assistance—prepared to send troops to help put down the rebellion under the pretext of protecting European lives and property in Fèz. Actual danger to European...

Miranda bombing, as he is known to have used false flag operations as a pretext for martial law. United States intelligence documents declassified in the...

(mostly Serbs and Jews) during a major raid in southern Bačka, under the pretext of suppressing resistance activities. During and after the final stages...

The Eastern Roman emperor, Justinian I (reigned 527–565), used this as a pretext to send forces to Italy under his famed general Belisarius, recapturing...

"counter-coup" was to follow, whereby Tung's men, having left Saigon on the pretext of fighting the Viet Cong (VC), as well as Đính's forces, would triumphantly...

the 1974 coup against President Makarios of Cyprus. The coup became the pretext for the first wave of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 (see Greco-Turkish...

decision was lauded by some intelligence officials because it removed the pretext for the Chinese government's decision to wage "terrorism eradication" campaigns...

protector of the Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire. This was a pretext for frequent and numerous interventions in the decades to follow. Ottoman...

by the deputies on 22 March 1836, another sign that it had been only a pretext. Thiers' motivations for accepting the position of head of the government...

cinema." Nanavati went to the naval base, collected his pistol on a false pretext from the stores along with six bullets, completed his official duties and...

with OT murdered many of the forced laborers (especially Jews) on the pretext of eliminating security risks or as a component of the Nazi genocidal programme...

Norwegians were killed by extrajudicial execution. This also served as a pretext for the arrest and detention of all male Jewish inhabitants of the area...

accused Butabika of engineering an incident at the border to create a pretext for invading Tanzania. According to Amin's son, Jaffar Remo, rumours of...

particularly to lower classes. One marriage in Britain was annulled on the pretext that the bride had run away within 15 minutes of the ritual, and in another...

by far the more loyal. Though the Muhammadan's cow-killing is made the pretext for the agitation, it is, in fact, directed against us, who kill far more...

protection of railroads and the freeing of hostages have been called a pretext by the scholars Svante Cornell, Arsene Saparov, Charlotte Hille and Stuart...

the Battle of Pharsalus in 48 BC, Julius Caesar goes to Egypt, under the pretext of being named the executor of the will of the father of the young Pharaoh...

act after attending a speech by Goldman. The authorities used this as a pretext to charge Goldman with planning McKinley's assassination. They tracked...

examples of equitable sharing arrangements. Police stop motorists under the pretext of a minor traffic infraction, and "analyze" the intentions of motorists...

first part of a two-part work that concludes with The Garden of Cyrus. The pretext for the book is the archaeological discovery of Anglo-Saxon pottery in...

Indelicato, Trinchera, and Giaccone, in a Brooklyn night club. On the pretext of working out a peace agreement, Massino had invited them to meet with...

the referendum). The Serb political leadership used the referendums as a pretext to set up roadblocks in protest. Independence was formally declared by...

one racial group over the other in certain areas", using security as a pretext. It said Israel's practices in the occupied Palestinian territories correlate...

Bijapur Kingdom. Shah Jahan, anxious to annex Bijapur to his empire, found a pretext in the legitimacy of Ali's parents. On Aurangzeb’s plea, Shah Jahan sanctioned...

safety after the defeat in Egypt and the revolts of the allies, or as a pretext to gain control of the League's finances, Athens transferred the treasury...

Weinstein invited young actresses or models into a hotel room or office on the pretext of discussing their career, and then he demanded massages or sex. He told...

Michael Collins to undertake a journey to the United States himself, on the pretext that only he could take up where de Valera had left off. Collins successfully...

troops of Cao Kun, an officer loyal to Yuan. The disorder gave Yuan a pretext to stay in the north to guard against unrest. On 10 March, Yuan was inaugurated...

Annie travels to Seattle on a work assignment arranged by Becky as a pretext to learn more about him. While dropping Victoria off at the airport, Sam...

She eventually seduces a reluctant Nick and the two have sex, under the pretext of relieving his stress. Meanwhile, Nick faces workplace tensions as robots...

She locates contact info for the cabin owner and arranges a meeting on a pretext. Kath finds the owner, Nicholas Barlow, to be friendly and charming. Nicholas...

Clark soon issued a decree of martial law using the Ganymede incident as a pretext. When martial law was declared, Hague began armed resistance against Clark's...

conspired with another officer, Fernando de Guzmán, to use this rejection as a pretext to start a riot in which they assassinated Ursúa and seized power. Ursúa...

market to a client, who returned his ownership of her after 1–2 days on the pretext of discontent after having had intercourse with her, which was a legal...

China and send Marines to guard the seaports. — President Truman Using the pretext of "receiving the Japanese surrender", business interests within the KMT...

particularly cut to the quick, is inspired to contact Shelley. On the pretext of a shopping excursion, Shelley and Akbar take Ezra and Amira to a trendy...

Spartan king Cleomenes I to help him expel Cleisthenes. He did so on the pretext of the Alcmaeonid curse. Consequently, Cleisthenes left Athens as an exile...

subjects, in the Pacific Ocean or in the South-Seas, from being made a pretext for illicit trade with the Spanish settlements; and, with this view, it...

communique also attacked the practice of "using the freedom of expression as a pretext for defaming religions." Eventually an official communiqué was issued requesting...

the next year by dissolving all monasteries in its territory, under the pretext of using their revenues to fund education and help the poor. The city of...

analyze and wonder why Kane's life happened the way that it did, under the pretext of finding out what "Rosebud" means. The film then returns to the omniscient...

clothes, arrived at opposition leader José Calvo Sotelo's home under the pretext of escorting him to the General Directorate of Security (Dirección General...

sabotaged a railway section near a Chinese garrison at Beidaying as a pretext for a Japanese invasion of Manchuria. 1939 - Shelling of Mainila - false-flag...

throughout the actual recordings, as though Strauss's notes were just a pretext that allowed him to improvise freely. Gould recorded Schoenberg, Hindemith...

Vaughn (Christopher Plummer) prepares to use Firehead's activities as a pretext for a coup d'état. According to Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times,...

two chambers, which had not been done. The body remained united on the pretext of drafting a new constitution and it considered itself a sovereign constitutional...

as a "smokescreen", knowing they would be rejected and giving Russia a pretext for invading Ukraine. NATO and the United States issued their formal response...

Stern. After Frankenweenie was completed, Disney fired Burton, under the pretext of him spending the company's resources on a film that would be too dark...

support its position in the dispute, arguing that the referendum served as a pretext for the Venezuelan government to abandon negotiations with Guyana. The...

narrative of the revolutionary Salafism: that counterterrorism is only a pretext used by the West in its historical quest for destroying Islam. It was a...

to an event in Haridwar, where he was invited by the kidnappers in the pretext of live performance. The kidnappers reportedly asked for a ransom of ₹20...

slave on the slave market to a client, who returned his ownership on the pretext of discontent after having had intercourse with her, which was a legal...

various suburbs, before moving to Aurora in 1978. On March 6, 1979, on the pretext of selling marijuana, Lindahl lured 20-year-old Annette Lazar into his...

precipitated by Earth using unrest against the colony's corrupt mayor as a pretext for bringing Mars under firmer Terran control, and in Tubb's Alien Dust...

the residence of ex West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on the pretext of its being the Party office of Trinamool Congress. Abhishek Banerjee...

21 August, the Soviets proposed adjournment of military talks using the pretext that the absence of senior Soviet personnel at the talks interfered with...

intersecting interests provided the British Government with military action pretext against Kosoko. These interests included the British government's desire...

class. By providing false information to the ESL HR department through pretexting, Farley was able to obtain Black's home address and home phone number...

[citation needed] Stalin used the assassination of Sergei Kirov in 1934 as a pretext to purge the party and removed a large part of the surviving Old Bolsheviks...

opportunity to seize control of the imperial capital, Luoyang, under the pretext of protecting the emperor. Dong Zhuo later deposed Emperor Shao and replaced...

simple object, which I take from daily life or from nature, is merely a pretext, which helps me by the means of a definite arrangement of lines and colours...

bonanza have tended to avoid the subject of the resurrection—usually on the pretext that this is solely a matter of 'faith' or of 'theology', about which no...

anniversary, Pallavi travels from San Francisco to Los Angeles under the pretext of running errands, unbeknownst to her husband Arun. Her actual intention...

forced Umbria to anchor at Wingate reef near Port Sudan, Sudan on the pretext for searching for contraband. Shortly after that Umbria's captain, Lorenzo...

generations of Vangers, all part-owners in Vanger Enterprises. Under the pretext of researching the family history, and because the island is small, Blomkvist...

strengthening Ieyasu. In April 1599, Ieyasu cited Hideyoshi's will as pretext for him to review the decision regarding the Mōri clan territories that...

member of the newspaper's Board of Contributors. And in 2004 he released A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq. and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies (Doubleday)...

United States, were trying to find an excuse for doing nothing on the pretext that it was the Russians' own fault – a result of the Bolshevik system...

into a trap. Dude tells Chance to take the men to the jail, under the pretext that Stumpy would let Joe out. Stumpy opens fire, though, as Dude secretly...

them to form government if Diefenbaker resigned. Diefenbaker sought a pretext for a new election. Such an excuse presented itself when former Secretary...

pretext of restoring order as an ally of the Safavid king. Indeed, Russia shortly after used the attack on its merchants in Shamakhi as the pretext to...

as a pretext. The deputy permanent under-secretary at the Foreign Office, Orme Sargent, wrote ...our desire to assist Finland is only a pretext to justify...

January. In June 2021, 44 people were arrested at an LGBT center, with the pretext of violating COVID SOPs. In July 2022, Museveni hosted Russian Foreign...

producing a vote in favor of a republic, which Georgios Papadopoulos used as a pretext to have himself declared President. However, after the collapse of the...

territories, looting and large-scale corruption were common. Under the pretext of "receiving the Japanese surrender," business interests within the KMT...

scenario of mass detention of US citizens and residents under an unrealistic pretext and without congressional debate is often cited by civil libertarians opposing...

the vast majority of contemporary witnesses, but they provided the legal pretext that the Boleyns' enemies needed to bring about the execution of Lord Rochford...

Act. Concerns were also raised that the Olympics were being used as a pretext to get the foot-in-the-door. Frenchelon Global surveillance § France Kayali...

Encyclopædia Britannica describes as a "fraudulent document which served as a pretext and rationale for anti-Semitism in the early 20th century". In another...

particularly targeted. Many are accused of high treason or other charges as a pretext to pressure them into ceasing activities critical of HTS. HTS also arrested...

warlordism and regionalism, he chose immediate centralisation. Using the pretext of demobilisation, Chiang began systematically reducing the military power...

rebuffed. The King expelled her and her husband from Spain in 1916 under the pretext of sending Infante Alfonso on a mission to Switzerland. At the same time...

former tennis player and law school withdrawee, entered the building on the pretext of visiting a friend, and opened fire on office workers at random with...

received notably different treatment. Yintang was sent to Qinghai under the pretext of military service, but in reality was watched over by the Yongzheng Emperor's...

to be a Lê prince, broke out in the north and escalated. Alongside the pretext of avenging the death of the missionaries the French invasion was designed...

million won in insurance money left to his niece Kyung-eon, and under the pretext of paying it back, he drags his niece into a plan to con the local pharmacist...

Tocqueville indicates that he and Beaumont used their official business as a pretext to study American society instead. They arrived in New York City in May...

Secret Doctrine provided the Nazis with a mythological precedent and a pretext for their ideological platform and their subsequent genocide. However,...

(ISBN 978-2-9532382-0-4). Patrice Najbor, la dynastye des Zogu, Textes & Prétextes, Paris, 2002 Geraldine of the Albanians; Robyns, Gwen – ISBN 0-584-11133-9...

Hoche sends 15,000 soldiers from the Rhine to Brest via Paris, on the pretext of planning an invasion of Ireland. July 3: Talleyrand proposes a French...

that he was also reprimanded for improper filing of paperwork with the pretext that he had not described the incident in the military diary. He received...

Kirghiz SSR in an act of ethnic cleansing; this was done under the false pretext of Chechen mass collaboration with Nazi Germany. An estimated 1/4 to 1/3...

schools, even in areas mostly populated by Sorbs, still happen, under the pretext of financial difficulties or demolition of whole villages to create lignite...

Spanish troops provisionally occupied Tangier during World War II, on the pretext that an Italian invasion was imminent. In 1956, when France ended its protectorate...

Ernst vom Rath, who died shortly afterwards. The Nazis took this act as a pretext to stage a nationwide pogrom known as Kristallnacht (9 November 1938)....

Constitution. Without a showing that pregnancy-based distinctions are "mere pretexts designed to effect an invidious discrimination", Geduldig required only...

however, Hitler attributed the fire to Communist agitators. He used it as a pretext to claim that Communists were plotting against the German government, and...

Huesca to leak Amaterasu's technology is revealed, giving Makoto the pretext to remove Yomi from his position. Upon returning to the agency, the Detectives...

some kind of death toll. The renovation and expansion are done under the pretext of creating more space for Muslim pilgrims, but it masks land grabs and...

art rival to his own, complained to their father Zeus about it, with the pretext that many people took to casting pebbles, but few actually were true prophets...

The United States and the United Kingdom would use Resolution 1441 as a pretext for war. The 2003 US-led invasion of the country forced the Ba'ath Party...

north Indian city of Delhi.[citation needed] His campaign was politically pretexted that the Muslim Delhi Sultanate was too tolerant toward its "Hindu" subjects...

refused to do so. This caused management to dismiss a worker (on some other pretext), on or about 2 July 1888, which set off the strike. Approximately 1,400...

army officer she met on a chatroom. She meets him every Thursday on the pretext of visiting her aunt. At home she is a doting and dutiful wife. She describes...

danger to the army of the loss of its moral values "under the fallacious pretext of immediate expediency" and was imprisoned for sixty days. As some of...

stance, some have criticized the agency for its role in arrests for petty pretexts that critics contend were ultimately politically motivated. In their declaration...

First, payments of revenues from Mongolia and China were refused on the pretext that such payments were draining the imperial treasury. He then dispatched...

that the events in Macuto would be used by the Maduro government as a pretext to harass opponents and intensify repression, saying that Guaidó's administration...

killed Giaccone, Trinchera, and Indelicato in a Brooklyn nightclub. On the pretext of working out a peace agreement, Massino had invited them to meet with...

articles by Pat Booth. In October 1979, Johnstone was lured to Britain on the pretext of a drug deal to take place in Scotland. He was murdered by Andy Maher...

Agreement. He stated, "Israel entered Syria under the pretext of the Iranian presence, and its pretext has now ended." On 14 December 2024, al-Sharaa clarified...

windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues were smashed. The pretext for the attacks was the assassination, on 9 November 1938, of the German...

better living conditions, and an end to Soviet domination. Under the pretext that the Hungarian uprising might incite his nation's own revolt, Gheorghiu-Dej...

which had been advised by US advisers, of evacuating villages under the pretext that they were under direct threat of Communist attack. That would deprive...

as much as the general welfare is concerned. They oppose it under the pretext of its being impracticable. Let the Almighty step in and arrange everything...

capital Kaesong (then Gaegyeong) but soon returned to the mountains on the pretext that his aged mother was sick. On the eighth day of the seventh month in...

Dalmatia to the Venetian Republic for 100,000 ducats in 1409. Acting on the pretext, the Republic took over in the city by the year 1420. By this time, the...

torture, Arjun plans to relocate to Dubai, where his sister lives, on the pretext of doing MBA. With the help of his friend's connection, who owns a consultancy...

Ferdinand I died in 1494, Charles VIII of France invaded Italy, using as a pretext the Angevin claim to the throne of Naples, which his father had inherited...

Lori were discontent due to their treatment by the soldiers—using this pretext, Armenia fomented insurrection, thereby elevating tensions. Skirmishes...

modernes (Parallel of the Ancients and the Moderns), whose title provided the pretext for a play on words transforming "parallèle" into "querelle" (quarrel)...

her from contacting anyone. Vinod comes and requests to meet her on the pretext of purchasing second-hand clothes for himself. Pitying Vinod, her father...

Conger's report to Stanton stated that Corbett shot Booth "without order, pretext or excuse", and recommended that Corbett be punished for disobeying orders...

reform". Although the Okhrana, the secret police, had failed to find a legal pretext to close the journal, the government decided to do it in January 1917,...

Raw, attacking Cena, CM Punk, and members of the ringside crew, on the pretext of demanding guaranteed WWE contracts for all of them. The following week...

under a new constitution. Three years later he seized powers under the pretext of a potential communist insurrection, beginning the eight-year long Estado...

asking her to come back, so she will have her company and comfort. Under pretext of coming to help with housework, Mary writes to her father, who initially...

one of the reasons. Kaufman responded by saying: This is just a flimsy pretext for another of the innate cruelties of the German people ... I don't think...

anti-globalization groups, in which criticism of Jews and Israel is used as a pretext to "legitimize the armed Palestinian conflict." In September 2006, the...

Greenwald testified that the U.S. government had used counterterrorism as a pretext for clandestine surveillance to compete with other countries in the "business...

tensions rose once more. Kulothunga ultimately executed Kamban on the pretext that he had maintained ties with the Chera king and had murdered the youngest...

daytime in some rural settings from May to the end of October under the pretext of fieldwork requirements. Non-fulfillment of these regulations by clergy...

institutions, prayer gatherings, and public decorations, often under the pretext of preventing alleged "religious conversions" or preserving "cultural awareness...

also used in the context of hospital settings to avoid infection on the pretext that basins pose the risk of multidrug resistant organism contamination...

by Georgios Papadopoulos successfully carried out a coup d'état on the pretext of imminent "communist threat", establishing what became known as the Regime...

unattractive but was unable, for diplomatic reasons and without a suitable pretext, to cancel the marriage. Cromwell fell from favour and was arrested for...

Holocaust by quoting the Italian neofascist Mario Consoli in saying "Any pretext, no matter how flimsy [...], is good enough to remind people of the Holocaust...

principle is limited by the requirement that religion may not be used as a pretext to harm the state, introduce foreign forces, or harm the existing social...

drug dealers. It emerges that Sugimi was simply using Matsushima as a pretext to obtain a bribe from the yakuza. Seeking revenge, Matsushima makes a...

illness; says 'she once felt I would leave her in mental asylum on the pretext of taking abroad'". The Times of India. 8 January 2022. Archived from the...

charges of "genocide" and planned harassment have been discredited as a pretext to revoke Kosovo's autonomy. For example, in 1986 the Serbian Orthodox...

committed summary executions of Jews under the pretext that they were spies, saboteurs, Communists, or under no pretext whatsoever. The political solution of the...

Dutch woman, to dinner at his apartment at 10 Rue Erlanger, under the pretext of translating poetry for a school assignment. Sagawa planned to kill and...

ultimatum with which Frere knew Cetshwayo could not comply, giving Frere a pretext to attack the Zulu kingdom. The first two incidents related to the flight...

The assassination of Austria's crown prince on 28 June 1914 provided the pretext for Austria-Hungary to attack Serbia and trigger World War I. After four...

New York Times called it "a charmless caper movie that seems chiefly a pretext for the characters to keep changing their clothes." "The Unstoppables"...

Sanjay Raggad, Sadhu and Chhota Rajan himself, entered the arena on the pretext of retrieving the ball. After doing so, they walked right up to Kunju,...

flag operations on the border (including the Gleiwitz incident), giving a pretext for the invasion of Poland. September 1 – Beginning of WWII: Opening shots...

learns in two steps. First, the task is solved based on an auxiliary or pretext classification task using pseudo-labels, which help to initialize the model...

people known to have been killed on Ungern's orders or by others on their pretext, both in Russia and Mongolia, confirms the deaths of 846 people, approximately...

Vaud. So when Vaud revolted and declared a republic, the French had a pretext to invade the entire Confederation. The French army entered the Lemanic...

daughter of Robert Guiscard, was broken, which Robert Guiscard used as a pretext to invade the Byzantine Empire. John Doukas forced Nikephoros to abdicate...

Vasant has to leave. When Basant sees it is the girl he wants, he plays a pretext that he is Vasant instead. Basant goes home and finds his friend smoking...

in his speeches at rallies were subsequently used by McCarthyites as a pretext for labeling him a communist to slander and harass him. From 1947 through...

In the 19th century, punitive expeditions were used more commonly as pretexts for colonial adventures that resulted in annexations, regime changes or...

Anti-Carthaginian factions in Rome used the illicit military action as a pretext to prepare a punitive expedition. Later in 149 BC a large Roman army landed...

Dutch sent seven large ships and 1400 men from Java to Bengal under the pretext of reinforcing their Bengal settlement of Chinsura even though Britain...

Muskaan joins the Sharma family for a vacation in Thailand on a false pretext by lying to her father for the first time; over the course of the 7-day...

mainly among higher-ranking officers. This inevitably provided a convenient pretext for the settling of personal vendettas or to eliminate competition by officers...

Swartz have alleged that censorship of child pornography is being used as a pretext by copyright lobby organizations to get politicians to implement similar...

hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of...

Amboise conspiracy, had already prepared for war and, taking Wassy as the pretext, assumed the role of a protector of Protestantism and began to seize and...

accusations of witchcraft are, in this case, considered to have been a pretext for Hermann to get rid of an "unsuitable match," Veronika being born into...

recalled, and Benjamin, after consulting Davis, so ordered after he used the pretext of rumored Union troop movements in the area. Jackson complied but, in...

especially Robert Ley and Joseph Goebbels, wanted to use the raid as a pretext for abandonment of the Geneva Conventions on the Western Front. In the...

1938 to confirm the agreements. Hitler, aiming to use the crisis as a pretext for war, now demanded not only the annexation of the Sudetenland but also...

had decided to attack Iraq and continue to use the WMD story as a false pretext for launching the war. The leaked Downing Street Memo, an internal summary...

Emperor, Zhu Youjian avoided attending imperial court sessions under the pretext of illness until he was summoned to court by his brother in 1627. At the...

authentic; and that no one is to dare, or presume to reject it under any pretext whatever' [Decree Concerning the Edition and Use of the Sacred Books, 1546]...

neighboring regions after Muhammad's death, initially intervening under the pretext of mediating between the Al-Ayedh of Asir and the Idrisis. The Saudis took...

Ottomans at the Battle of Chaldiran in 1514. The Ottomans used this as a pretext to overthrow him, and in June 1515 he was executed. As Alaüddevle had been...

Kabir's affairs and dalliances with other women, that he indulges on the pretext of business trips. Nisha becomes pregnant. and her doctor deems the pregnancy...

In 2003, a.s.h was the topic of a series of Wired articles under the pretext of examining the group's role in the deaths of several depressed individuals...

remaining Jews were shot in summer 1942, along with Soviet citizens, under the pretext of having links to the partisans. Monument to soldiers-internationalists...

Brett (Peter O'Meara), who is scouting the area with his men under the pretext of searching for his missing daughter. Brett's interactions with a local...

Russia began to assert its expansionistic desires again in 1768. Under the pretext of pursuing fugitive Polish revolutionaries, Russian troops entered Balta...

cabinet members and the arrest of Parchami military officers under the pretext of a Parchami coup. By mid-1979, the United States had started a covert...

Critics of the government argue that the Islamist radical label provides a pretext for maintaining a repressive regime in the country. A third theory is that...

surprising young woman, a romantic relationship advisor on a radio. Under the pretext of asking her for advice on her personal case, he spends a lot of time...

tricked by one of the kidnappers into getting into his car under the false pretext of aiding him to safety, though once he realized his mistake, he managed...

refused to give Bagramian a written document in this regard, under the pretext that this flight could be too dangerous and such important orders should...

of Hesse on 27 January 1534. This was directed against Charles on the pretext of assisting the Duke of Württemberg to regain his traditional seat, from...

Akwamuhene Ansa Sasraku, using the circumcision of a visiting Akwamu prince as pretext, attacked Accra. He sacked Ayawaso and beheaded the king, Okai Koi. The...

Posing as a mild-mannered and charming Christian drifter, Nelson used the pretext of renting a room in the landladies' boarding houses to make contact with...

had contacted Mihaljevic by telephone and arranged to meet her on the pretext of buying a gift for her mother because she had recently been promoted...

a square in Salvador, together with works of other authors, under the pretext that they were communist propaganda. But afterwards the book would be widely...

month's period she may be arrested. One day she takes Eva home on the pretext of talking her out of her grief and strangles her to death. Haritha then...

instigated by the Greek junta against the Cypriot government was used as a pretext by Turkey to invade and occupy the northern part of the island. Greece...

elder refused to convert, all of the men were taken in trucks under the pretext of being led to Sinjar and gunned down along the way.[citation needed]...

question. Don't turn them away. Don't try to hide the facts by making pretexts this and that, you are strictly prohibited to contest me. Don't be a fool...

grandmothers and requests permission to pursue an MBA in London, using it as a pretext to find Rahul. Upon arrival, he reconnects with Pooja, now a popular university...

opposition, and the subsequent military suppression of the coup provided a pretext to purge the radical Kōdōha, alongside most other factions, permanently...

arms drop was to help anti Left government dissidents and to create a pretext to impose President's Rule in West Bengal. On 29 April 2011, Central Bureau...

affected by Ali's egalitarian policies soon revolted against him under the pretext of revenge for Uthman. Among them was Mu'awiya, the long-time governor...

of the kidnapped the money in foreign currency was found, which was the pretext to declare the Protestants American spies. Church officials believe that...

confession, Chikatilo lured Tkachenko to a forest near the Don River with the pretext of drinking vodka and "relaxing". When they reached a secluded area, he...

Liberation Front (ONLF) in June. The government had used the proscription as a pretext for brutal crackdowns on opposition members, activists, and journalists...

him denying that the ovens could have destroyed bodies, under the false pretext of the number of "cookies" that could be baked there. ... We saw above...

Actress. A musical quintet formed by retired elders in an asylum, under the pretext of delivering the ashes of his friend Rosita (Blanca Torres) to Margarita...

throne of Liu Song, the Northern Wei emperor prepared to invade under the pretext of installing Liu Chang, son of Emperor Wen of Liu Song who had been in...

Michaud and Robson The Crusaders feared that Qalawun would use this as a pretext to resume the war, and petitioned the pontiff for reinforcements. According...

Ramanujan Institute of Mathematics, a for-profit coaching institute, on the pretext that Kumar would coach them if they performed well. Furthermore, the article...

relations between the Seljuqs and the Karamanids did not last. In 1261, on the pretext of supporting Kaykaus II, who had fled to Constantinople as a result of...

identifiable information include: Financial Privacy Rule Safeguards Rule Pretexting Protection (Subtitle A: Disclosure of Nonpublic Personal Information,...

convey aristocratic breeding, while the writing implements serve as "but a pretext for a high-romantic pose". The art historian Roger Ling similarly considers...

which he expressed was a personal undertaking: "in the future, under the pretext of different worthy reasons, to remove from my eyesight all those who by...

Maurice and his family. Khosrau II used the murder of his benefactor as a pretext for war and reconquer the Roman province of Mesopotamia. In the early years...

their job". Even after he becomes an officer, they still beat him on the pretext that "he has a gun". As an officer, he promises to make every black man's...

most rare, however, and the theologian who authorizes violence under this pretext should take care against excess; excess being infinitely more dangerous...

attempted to take over the position of chief minister or the party on the pretext that his health would prevent him from the proper execution of his duties...

Benwick are engaged. Delighted at this, Wentworth goes to Bath under the pretext of visiting his sister. Wentworth learns that William Elliot has been courting...

North Korea. The 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq was carried out under the pretext of disarming Iraq from possessing weapons of mass destruction; however...

remarked, "There's almost no plot here and even less character—just a lot of pretexts for S&M imagery, Catholic decor, gobs of gore, and the usual designer schizophrenia...

invaded by the king of Hungary, Matthias Corvinus. Matthias invaded with the pretext of returning Bohemia to Catholicism; at the time, it was ruled by the Hussite...

early 1980s widely respected for her expertise in social engineering, pretexting, and psychological subversion. She became heavily involved in phreaking...

and engineers, and removed most of the senior officers in the Army. The pretext was the 1934 assassination of Sergei Kirov (which many suspect Stalin of...

forgets her camera in Italy. Tanino decides to travel to the US with the pretext of returning Sally's camera to her but in addition to avoiding Italian...

watch TV. Harry Tucker, intoxicated, schemes to return to his house on a pretext and seduce the babysitter. The story becomes a phantasmagoria of images...

ripped out of her secret diary. She borrows her mother Sarah's car on the pretext that she forgot to bring her books home. Sarah discovers the ruse and tells...

Russian arms companies. Russia exaggerate the damage and uses it as a pretext for isolating GCHQ from the NSA by leaking NSA software from a UK site...

Achaemenid satrap of ancient Egypt, sent against the city of Barca, on the pretext of avenging the murder of Arcesilaus III of Cyrene. The general Amasis...

and famine. Some 25,000 people are thought to have been purged under the pretext of being spies, including civilians and high-ranking government officials...

staff maintained the charade and sent him to Fell's hospital under the pretext of being its commanding officer. In reality, Fell has been the commanding...

involved in a similar attack on the king a year earlier. The affair became a pretext to suppress Francisco Ferrer, an anarchist educator who ran Escuela Moderna...

and former WBR executive Stan Cornyn both opined that this was merely a pretext, and that the studio effectively scapegoated Conkling for the label's earlier...

rape was the second most common accusation; such accusations were often pretexts for lynching black people who violated Jim Crow etiquette or engaged in...

sent to keep him away from his wife whom he used to assault, under the pretext that a clone of him is trying to kill him. Sitka is a setting in the 2009...

review, criticising Suryah for ruining Big by adding vulgarity on the pretext of mother sentiment, while stating that Penny Marshall, the director of...

that future generations would misinterpret this gesture, taking it as a pretext to turn the church into a mosque. Eutychius of Alexandria adds that Umar...

grasp that this story of fighting over a great deal of money is only a pretext for deeper social and cultural comment. The film foretells the Iranian...

Pierre-Luc Lafontaine as Alex, a young man who travels to Maine under the pretext of visiting his father (Paul Doucet), but is instead planning to use the...

Sobchak felt that political positions and opposition served only as a pretext for realising her ambitions and declared her movement non‑political, aimed...

officials standing in his way, the manner and matter of her death became a pretext for her son to purge the court and government of opponents and critics...

an unsuccessful attack upon Cyzicus; and Antigonus gladly seized this pretext to require him to resign his satrapy. Arrhidaeus, however, refused to resign...

which was a staged event engineered by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for the Japanese invasion in 1931 of northeastern China, known as Manchuria...

then accusing Finland of being the aggressor. The Soviets used this as a pretext to instigate the Winter War, which began four days later on November 30...

biased description for fighting behaviors, applying a human behavioral pretext. Much of religion invokes a binary model for sexuality, for example, the...

Argentina and had a plan to destroy the country. This ideology was used as a pretext to implement illegal repressive methods to resolve what was referred to...

Angola would undermine the United States diplomatically in Africa. On the pretext of attacks around the Calueque hydroelectric facility, the South Africans...

in the genre can often be accused of using the moral of the story as a pretext to justify extremely graphic murder and rape scenes. For example, I Spit...

ideals of Italian irredentism) successfully used the Corfiot Italians as a pretext to occupy Corfu twice. The origins of the Corfiot Italian community can...

power, and lures Picard and the Enterprise to Romulus under the false pretext of a peace overture. Written by John Logan and directed by Stuart Baird...

order to stake a claim to the southern part of Morocco. This served as a pretext for a short war with Morocco in 1859. The territory and its main town of...

Kaminski's men. Heinrich Himmler used the misconduct of the Warsaw group as a pretext for having Kaminski and his leadership executed after trial by court martial...

extraordinary amount in compensation. When no reply came, the Sultan used it as a pretext to besiege Acre and finish off the last independent Crusader state occupying...

p. 230. ISBN 1-4384-0942-7. Varisco, Daniel Martin (1993). "Texts and Pretexts : the Unity of the Rasulid State under al-Malik al-Muzaffar". Revue des...

are working together and have arrested some people in the area under the pretext of smuggling to extort money and sent them to prison. Maari decides to...

Marrakesh, suspected of spying for his country. France used the event as a pretext for sending its troops from Algeria to the eastern Moroccan town of Oujda...

terse reply: αἴκα, "if". When Philip created the League of Corinth on the pretext of unifying Greece against Persia, the Spartans chose not to join, since...

his cousin Gelimer. The Eastern Roman emperor Justinian took this as a pretext to intervene in Vandal affairs, and after securing the eastern frontier...

successor Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin was fomenting the doctors' plot as a pretext for further anti-Jewish repressions. Stalin publicly condemned antisemitism...

In 1856, the Russian military entered the area north of the Amur on a pretext of defending the area from France and the UK; Russian settlers founded...

kingdom in the region. He challenged Shahu 's right to collect taxes on the pretext that he did not know whether Shahu or his cousin, Sambhaji II of Kolhapur...

his military conscription. The family soon travelled to Iraq under the pretext of making the Karbala pilgrimage, and subsequently decided to remain in...

nor even the means of providing that promised secure passage. Using as pretext the death of their leader, Mavromichalis, who was killed during the siege...

Abel. Her psychotic ex-boyfriend Agent Kohn comes to Charming under the pretext of investigating SAMCRO, but is really there because he wants to resume...

initial rise to power. Although the text remains unclear as to the precise pretext, Clovis had Ragnachar executed. Remaining pockets of resistance were overcome...

the rigorous training regimen imposed by the temple's Head Abbott on the pretext of "earning" a right to study martial arts there. The "zero-to-hero" tale...

saboteurs into Ukraine to stage "a false-flag operation" that would create a pretext for Russia to invade Ukraine. Lavrov dismissed the US claim as "total disinformation"...

Robert Zemeckis has undeniable energy and flair, but it's being misspent on pretexts and situations that seem inexcusably gratuitous and snide." A staff reviewer...

territory. He instead reported that Constans sent troops to Constantine on the pretext of assisting Constantius II in the Persian war, but in reality to assassinate...

license requirements, NET justified the airing of these programs under the pretext of "nurturing a child's emotional range" (子供の情操教育のため, Kodomo no jōsō kyōiku...

stability of its multi-ethnic empire, seized upon the assassination as a pretext for action against Serbia. This pivotal event set off the July Crisis,...

against Mao Zedong's purge of the Jiangxi Action Committee, ordered on the pretext of its alleged connection to the Anti-Bolshevik League and ties to Trotskyism...

purchase vast swaths of land at Nemasket. His death became the necessary pretext for Plymouth Colony’s arrest of a counselor tied to suppressing the purchasing...

Tiwari said that that freedom of religion cannot be taken away under the pretext of the right to life. The Supreme Court refused to provide an early hearing...

instance when reviewers used a film's perceived political incorrectness as a pretext to savage it. The third film in the original series was made into a video...

foster public disdain in order to destroy their reputation and/or provide a pretext for the final assault against the opponent. They engineer scenarios where...

"Council of Siena"). It was rather poorly attended, which gave the Pope a pretext for dissolving it, as soon as it had come to the resolution that "internal...

on the stonework of the new warehouses and these were used in 1640 as a pretext to demolish the buildings and relocate the trading post to Nagasaki. With...

announce Forbes' resignation and let him flee to Europe on the "flimsy pretext" that he would help disabled U.S. Veterans in Europe. Harding placed a...

became part of the civilizing mission justifying colonial rule on the pretext of ending torture, despite the use of torture by colonial rulers themselves...

7 March 1936, using the Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance as a pretext, Hitler ordered the Wehrmacht to march 20,000 German troops into the Rhineland...

island with a gathering of women, solely of women giving the most precious pretext for all patterns of plastic art". (in French) "Base Joconde entry". (in...

as governor. Sallust exploited the province, amassing wealth under the pretext of punishing it for supporting Pompey. Bocchus II was granted additional...

From 1880 onward the term saw popular usage by colonial empires as a pretext for war under the guise of protecting populations, alongside the colonial...

evening in tears, begging her son to grant to him the last bath. This is a pretext of the mother to drown her son, so she can stay with him forever, even...

contact the Maharani. Duleep Singh then decided to go himself, using the pretext of a tiger shoot in Bengal. In 1860 he wrote to the British Resident in...

and Barda began living on Earth, and Darkseid used this "betrayal" as a pretext to declare the treaty with New Genesis abrogated so the planets could resume...

that recognised only English and Afrikaans as official languages as a pretext. The decree was resented deeply by blacks as Afrikaans was widely viewed...

off the coast of Devon, England. They have been invited under various pretexts by a "Mr and Mrs Owen". Upon arrival at the island’s house, the guests...

on Hussein for his sacrilegious act in proclaiming himself caliph. The pretext for renewed hostilities between Nejd and Hejaz came when the pilgrims from...

smuggled sandalwood and to gather information about Veerappan. Under the pretext of conducting a search, the team ransacked the villagers' property, destroyed...

hard and violent man, quick to slap or beat his wife on the slightest pretext. Anant recalls looking on and being powerless to intervene. When Anant...

strikes Yegor and spills a drop of his blood, which Zavulon uses as a pretext to break the truce and declare all-out war on the Light Others. Yegor,...

stayed there overnight on the night of 11–12 April. At night, under the pretext of a bomb threat, unidentified law enforcement personnel attacked and forcibly...

with her secretly. He then left but, missing Carya, soon returned under pretext of consecrating a temple which Dion had built for him. But Lyco and Orphe...

instances of violence due to Rowlatt Satyagraha, one of which made the pretext for Jallianwala Bagh Massacre. During the non-cooperation movement, various...

Karl Thopia. Robert, enraged, invited the couple to Naples in 1342 on the pretext of wanting to reconcile with them, where he had them both executed. The...

outside of the New York Supreme Court building at Foley Square on the pretext of writing a parking ticket for Barzini's car. When Barzini emerges from...

takes". Frederick undertook the exploitation of Polish territory under the pretext of an enlightened civilising mission that emphasised the supposed cultural...

the capital, Mogadishu, where he obtained a residence permit under the pretext of working as a chef for his nephew, who was employed in Dubai, and began...

it is quickly revealed that Reed only used the medical interview as a pretext to find out the truth behind Celeste's disappearance. Angered, Felton orders...

1902, by the Edison Manufacturing Company. The film's plot was only the pretext of showcasing the skills of a fast sculptor. The film is set in a bakery's...

this action, Dessalines said he was outraged, and decided to use this a pretext to invade Santo Domingo, with his forces looting several towns in reprisal...

powers were competing for influence in the city, usually on the basis (or pretext) of extending protection over Christian churches and holy places. Much...

unilaterally dismissed Lumumba, using the massacres in South Kasai as a pretext and with the promise of American backing. Andrew Cordier, the American...

cover for status, and cover for action, meaning how to establish credible pretexts for their presence and behavior while engaged in collection activities...

two conspired to force him out using a sexual harassment allegation as a pretext—one Rubin said was never properly investigated. He was placed on administrative...

Some have been supplied with narcotics". Sex toys: "Products under the pretext of health and recreation ... are the instruments of injury, both intentional...

uttering Celina(Ambar)'s name. She picks up a fight with him and on the pretext of dropping him to his office, she races their car in the busy street asking...

by great personalities of the nobility and clergy, especially under the pretext of illness, floods, or drought. There are many echoes that, in documents...

mutineers demanded lands as a pretext for larger cash donatives, and only during the triumviral period (43–31 BC) did this pretext fall away. There is also...

Spain and the Batavian Republic, paid all the costs, gave Napoleon a pretext for endowing himself with a consulate, not for ten years but for life,...

Diego neighbors found nothing suspicious about pair". Chicago Tribune. A Pretext for War by James Bamford, page 231 Hijackers Found Welcome Mat on West...

feelings to his companion and jester Vidushaka, urging him to think of a pretext to stay in the ashrama without arousing suspicion. Fortunately, a few ascetics...

also known as the Rebellion of 18 corpses (กบฏ 18 ศพ) was the claimed pretext for a political purge on 29 January 1939 by the government of Thai Prime...

and his life may be taken with impunity at any time upon the slightest pretext or provocation by a white man". In the early 20th century, some industries...

driving Ouyang away from home. Huang, secretly loving The Woman, uses the pretext of bringing her news of Ouyang to visit them every year when the peach...

Fearing for his safety, Suresh sends him away to Hyderabad under the pretext of a university exchange program. Meanwhile, in Hyderabad, Sathyam gets...

but "fearing even more that Roman soldiers might invade Spain on the pretext of giving help". Athanagild was then accepted as king. His name may also...

December, Bock was relieved of his command of Army Group Center. The official pretext of this decision was health problems. However, this was just one case out...

ordered Russian troops into the Uryankhay Republic in 1912, under the pretext that Russian migrants were allegedly attacked. However, this position changed...

meters with 90,000 square meters of underground space. Built under the pretext of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, its construction and operation have evolved...

their workshops. Roberto Pucci withdrew the work from the oratory on the pretext of restoration but then in 1857 sold it to the National Gallery. The painting...

having good relations with Geiseric, in order to prevent him from having a pretext for attacks on Sicily, or Sardinia, or Italy itself. It is suspected that...

places of honor at banquets. They devour the houses of widows and, as a pretext, recite lengthy prayers. They will receive a very severe condemnation."...

France was heavily involved in Vietnam in the 19th century under the pretext of protecting Catholic missions and ensuring trading privileges in the...

against Greek and Bulgarian population. The Ottoman Government, under the pretext that a village was within the firing line, ordered its evacuation within...

Snowden went on temporary leave from his position at the NSA, citing the pretext of receiving treatment for his epilepsy. He traveled from Hawaii to Hong...

20 August 1940, Mercader was alone with Trotsky in his study under the pretext of showing the older man a document. Mercader struck Trotsky from behind...

teams to eliminate over twenty people related to Bukka at the slightest pretext of suspicion. As Bukka's men fail in rigging the election process even...

Jai knocks him out. They decide to bring him back to India, under the pretext that he is Ashfaq's uncle who needs to visit India for an urgent liver...

Robert died and was succeeded by his five-year-old son, David II. On the pretext of restoring John Balliol's rightful heir, Edward Balliol, the English...

Poland). Catherine the Great then exiled the group to Buryatia, on the pretext that they could there become farmers for the Cossack guards who defended...

Albrecht Konrad Finck von Finckenstein was sent to Stockholm under the pretext of an adjustment of the disputes regarding Pomerania, but in reality to...

age 16, Rainer chose to follow her dream to become an actress; under the pretext of visiting her mother, she traveled to Düsseldorf for a prearranged audition...

surrounded troops forced their leaders to parley with Hamilcar, but on a thin pretext, he took Spendius and his lieutenants prisoner. The rebels then attempted...

Coast, and that the U.S. federal government would use the invasion as a pretext to federalize the National Guard and deport all whites from his home state...

censorship was increased and the Damascus Spring movement was banned under the pretext of "national unity and stability". The regime's policy of a "social market...