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love to be given a pretext to annexe the Comte’s
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Discarding medicine under the pretext that ‘it is not natural’ is rejecting help offered by the Master of the Universe
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In 1730, their affairs were in so great disorder, that they were altogether incapable of maintaining their forts and garrisons, the sole purpose and pretext of their institution
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Their capital, which never exceeded £744,000, and of which £50 was a share, was not so exorbitant, nor their dealings so extensive, as to afford either a pretext for gross negligence and profusion, or a cover to gross malversation
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The great increase of their fortune had, it seems, only served to furnish their servants with a pretext for greater profusion, and a cover for greater malversation, than in proportion even to that increase of fortune
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The English copper company of London, the lead-smelting company, the glass-grinding company, have not even the pretext of any great or singular utility in the object which they pursue ; nor does the pursuit of that object seem to require any expense unsuitable to the fortunes of many private men
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with a pretext for greed, God is witness…
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A few months ago, just before the Ansahs started to England, Kwasie Adjaye, Captain of the Royal Hammockmen, and commanding one thousand guns, was accused of familiarity with one of these sisters, Princess Akosia Bereyna, and he was publicly put to death on this flimsy pretext
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The ―remedial‖ course of action initiated by state and local governments at curbing or eliminating smoking altogether, especially among young teens, by imposing additional excise taxes on cigarettes that would make such purchases cost-prohibitive, are cynical deceptions on the part of politicians on both sides of the political aisle designed to increase revenue for (social) spending programs under the pretext of concern for under-age smoking
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I know of one instance where the dismissal was done under the legal pretext of “no work no pay
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The usual pretext of most lynchings was the accusation of Blacks' rape or attempted rapes of white women
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Were they to know it, they would join the ranks of the great majority of the population who, with their silence, oppose those demonstrations, reject the leadership of pacifists who sponsor peace under any pretext and at any price, and trust the good sense and judgment of governing leaders who, backed by concrete facts, row against the current, mark out urgencies dictated by reasoning and make decisions of grave consequences for the benefit and security of the people they govern
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She said that she would sweet talk him into coming to the office on the pretext of picking up his money; instead, he’d grabbed the damn phone from her, and now the wormy little Dearling was gone
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allowed the terrorist attacks of 9/11 to go forward “perhaps as a pretext for war
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Do you think you could get your Captain to give you more men, on some pretext or other?”
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Americans allowed the attack on America with pretext of invading other countries, so war mongers and profiteers could remain in business and sustain oil greed
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Under the pretext of visiting a sick family member, I took a journey by train back to my home town of Shrewsbury, along with a sturdy wooden box containing all the evidence needed to implicate the club and its members in the five murders
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The Afghan war was on the pretext that the Taliban, who my
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the pretext that that country had weapons of mass destruction—both blatant lies
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pretext to go to war—a war that made the elite’s pockets overflow with coin
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” They have used provisions intended to protect the States from federal interference with religion “as a pretext” for interference by the Supreme Court itself
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16 And to Cain and his offering the Lord did not turn, and he did not incline to it, for he had brought from the inferior fruit of the ground before the Lord, and Cain was jealous against his brother Abel on account of this, and he sought a pretext to kill him
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The pretext of these training programs and technological inventions is often to
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32 And Simeon and Levi spoke this to Shechem and his father in order to find a pretext, and to seek counsel what was to be done to Shechem and to his city in this matter
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36 Now therefore know and see what you will do, and seek counsel and pretext what is to be done to them, in order to kill all the inhabitants of this city
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5 And his brothers answered him saying, So and so we did, and our hearts afterward struck us on account of this act, and we now sit to seek a pretext how we shall reconcile our father to it
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52 And Joseph was greatly afraid of his brothers and on account of Pharaoh, and Joseph sought a pretext to make himself known to his brothers, lest they should destroy all Egypt
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And if the experiment were to unfold poorly, then the Occidental Union would use the disaster as the perfect pretext to obliterate the Free Islands
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An occasional exchange student would be treated to the complete act in the hotel he would have arranged for her to stay—all this during daytime under the pretext of having some work to do around there
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Von Blum tried to sue me for slander/libel, wrote THE AG he had never been so maligned in his professional career, and he demanded I be fired! My job, of course, was saved, but the AG used it as pretext to deny me the first of four or five step raises due in ordinary course every six months
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This was a pretext
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pretext for firing me that it was and took preemptive measures
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I was very shocked and angered by my termination based upon the pretext that Almendral, supposedly parroting Hottman, gave me
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16 And to Cain and his offering the Lord did not turn and he did not incline to it for he had brought from the inferior fruit of the ground before the Lord and Cain was jealous against his brother Abel on account of this and he sought a pretext to kill him
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32 And Simeon and Levi spoke this to Shechem and his father in order to find a pretext and to seek counsel what was to be done to Shechem and to his city in this matter
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36 Now therefore know and see what you will do and seek counsel and pretext what is to be done to them in order to kill all the inhabitants of this city
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5 And his brothers answered him saying So and so we did and our hearts afterward struck us on account of this act and we now sit to seek a pretext how we shall reconcile our father to it
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52 And Joseph was greatly afraid of his brothers and on account of Pharaoh and Joseph sought a pretext to make himself known to his brothers lest they should destroy all Egypt
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so when I moved in there was no pretext of having a separate bedroom
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Of course, they would not shoot you, but they might just question you under any pretext and then hand you over to the German authorities who were certain to find something for which they could punish you
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No matter how feeble the pretext, we whooped it up and toasted our survival
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Under the pretext of needing someone to collect rents while he was away, he made an appointment to see Arnold Osbairne, using his mother’s surname
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On the pretext of being tired and needing an early night, Chris engineered an escape and before long Ruth and he were sitting in the
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She tilted her head in the pretext of thinking
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impressionable society, who would do well to consider the pretext of homosexuality with the same
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Leave alone the cruelty of the crime, didn’t it reflect the stupidity of man! And what do those murders of sexual jealousy tell but the tale of man’s idiocy? Oh, on the pretext of patching up, how easily the husband or the paramour would lure the other into a death trap! What a wonder is it that one comes to trust someone with a motive to harm one! Oh, if only the intended victim had known an iota of the human psychology! Would then there be the death of one and the jailing of the other?’
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But the spies seized upon this as a pretext for assailing Jesus
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Gerard shows up at this man’s house a day later with the pretext of checking on him
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The schedule seems to be to create the dissatisfaction through advertising, create the opportunity for women to enter the labor force on the pretext of equality with men, and thus weaken the family unit without so much as a fight
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pretext that I was going to run the distance between us as fast
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On the contrary, at a certain moment he seemed so enthusiastic with the idea of a new war that Colonel Gerineldo Márquez thought that he was only waiting for a pretext to proclaim it
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The pretext was offered, in fact, when the president of the republic refused to award any military pensions to former combatants, Liberal or Conservative, until each case was examined by a special commission and the award approved by the congress
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But the only reply from the government was the reinforcement of the military guard that had been placed at the door of his house with the pretext of protecting him, and the prohibition of all types of visits, Similar methods were adopted all through the country with other leaders who bore watching
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The doors of the house, wide open from dawn until bedtime, were closed during siesta time under the pretext that the sun heated up the bedrooms and in the end they were closed for good
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First, with the pretext of taking the burden off his wife, he transferred his parties
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Then, with the pretext that the animals were losing their fertility, he transferred his barns and stables
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With the pretext that his wedding bedroom was at the mercy of the moths in spite of the destruction of Remedios’ appetizing dolls, he hung a hammock in the workshop and then he would leave it only to go into the courtyard to take care of his necessities
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The rolls of music that she herself had thrown into the trash with the pretext that they had rotted from dampness kept spinning and playing in her memory
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Finally she made use of the American redhead who was spending his vacation in Macondo at that time and with the pretext of learning about new models of cars she had him take her to the garage
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When the table was still raised up on bricks and the chairs put on planks so that those at the table would not get their feet wet, she still served with linen tablecloths and fine chinaware and with lighted candles, because she felt that the calamities should not be used as a pretext for any relaxation in customs
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Convinced that Úrsula would carry the secret to her grave, Aureliano Segundo hired a crew of diggers under the pretext that they were making some drainage canals in the courtyard and the backyard, and he himself took soundings in the earth with iron bars and all manner of metal-detectors without finding anything that resembled gold in three months of exhaustive exploration
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His point of view, contrary to the general interpretation, was that Macondo had been a prosperous place and well on its way until it was disordered and corrupted and sup-pressed by the banana company, whose engineers brought on the deluge as a pretext to avoid promises made to the workers
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He did not have the pretext of climate to hasten their return because nature had endowed him with a colonial liver which resisted the drowsiness of siesta time and water that had vinegar worms in it
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Even the proprietress, who normally did not take part in the conversation argued with a madam’s wrathful passion that Colonel Aureliano Buendía, of whom she had indeed heard speak at some time, was a figure invented by the government as a pretext for killing Liberals
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It was such an unforeseen attitude that Amaranta Úrsula felt humiliated by the idea that she had given her husband the pretext that he had wanted in order to abandon her to her fate
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I don’t want precious time wasted in filling detailed orders and paperwork: any quartermaster or supply officer who will delay the issue of needed stores for this deployment on the pretext of not having written authorizations will be relieved of his position by me
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He turned around at the sound of the door opening and nodded his head in a polite but cautious welcome: he knew the extent of Zorokin’s power, which included the prerogative to arrest or execute him any time he wished if he had a good enough pretext to justify it
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“Look, I received yesterday an order from Moscow telling me to destroy the food supplies you are bringing to Leningrad and to pretext that they are poisoned by you
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‘’Because the American cinema censorship board has refused to let us distribute our documentaries around theaters in the United States, on the pretext that they are blasphemous and go against public morality
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‘’Under what pretext? If she is really connected in some way to our case, then we would only alert her that we are on her and make her more cautious
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I decided that tomorrow morning I would leave the boat around 10:30 on the pretext that I was going for a run
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Peter Gibson, our resident project manager for the site, phoned in the problem to us 12 hours ago and he stopped work on the pretext of a labor dispute
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It appears from various letters that, having met Amy on the pretext of a researcher, she decided to tell the Duke and at least enjoy the love and company of her daughter
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When Barclay had driven there and called in on the pretext of seeking directions to a place nearby, he was invited in by a man, slightly older than himself
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The American secretary finally had to invite the Chinese to go first, using the pretext that a lady was in that group in order not to insult the Japanese
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On the pretext of trying on the new clothes, Anna pranced round the bedroom provocatively in a flimsy negligee
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But as soon as the force arrived, the island garrison promptly surrendered, on the pretext that there was no water available
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way as hate in the pretext of love
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‘’Then what do you think of the fact that President Auriol of France called me earlier this morning to ask me to have her replaced in Indochina, on the pretext that she is partial to the Vietminh because of her past incarnation as a Vietnamese? You know what I told him? That he should in fact count himself lucky that there is a real expert on hand in Indochina, helping his bunch of colonialists from being wiped out by the Chinese
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The foes waved in pretext,
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Under the pretext of love,
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The pretext of perfection,
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Tarana had entered Agarwal Mansion on the pretext of meeting Tani, but Tani was not at home
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As soon as the child is born, the midwife, if the mother herself is not a witch, carries it out of the room on the pretext of warming it, raises it up, and offers it to the Prince of Devils, that is Lucifer, and to all the devils
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Unfortunately, he turned down my request, citing as a pretext a lack of available ships
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I have my doubts about that pretext but didn’t insist, in order not to attract undue attention to your ship and cargo
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‘’Our damn secret police has done nothing better for years than to arrest and execute hundreds of thousands of loyal and honest citizens under the flimsiest of pretext, or after receiving anonymous denunciations, and this to justify its arbitrary powers and to satisfy Stalin’s paranoia
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Since then, nobody has accepted to live in their house, on pretext that Boudart’s ghost is in it
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Then grabbing the part of her kit that was not already in her canoe, she shook hands one last time with her five Time Patrol colleagues, who were due to stay another year in Ville-Marie before selling their inn and disappearing deep inside the woods on the pretext that they were switching business to the fur trade
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Hubert hugged the women to him under the pretext of comforting them
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This was on the pretext that there were known to be the spirits of dead soldiers up there, who would spring from the ground and drag passers-by kicking and screaming back into the earth with them
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He realised that if he was picked up on some pretext or other, the Group Captain friend of Robin Hood was in no position to do anything to help, since Will wasn’t a British subject
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Because a secret search for hidden valuables at Daifen’s house was best undertaken if one were invited there under an innocent pretext, a pretext that would occur that year at the Daifen residence only for one night––the gala on the eve of the new year; and in order to mingle with the nobles invited, I had to pass for a one
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“If you postpone or completely cancel meetings between heads of state under the pretext of the refusal to hand over one person, then relations between countries will quickly reach zero,” Zhirinovsky said
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Nevertheless, when Sathyam suggested that Roopa might engage Prasad inside, she excused herself on the pretext of her going to help Lalitha with a new recipe
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arranged to call at Biddulph Mansions on the pretext of discussing the arrangements we were
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pretext of protecting me
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In the Hellenistic period, circumcision was the pretext for persecution and resistance but in Islam you are simply a child identified with honors
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The expedition proceeded with its officers, implements and heavy-armament headed by one of the French leaders who unveiled his brutal reality and was fully determined to bomb the whole country on the pretext of attacking the terrorist rebels in their sites and shelters