Environmentalists say the beetle is only a pretext for Szyszko.
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He's doing it under the pretext of saving American jobs.
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However that could be the pretext for lifting the sanctions.
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Yet apparently this is a pretext Iran refuses to respect.
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It was used as a pretext to introduce martial law.
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This looks like a pretext for ousting an unpopular president.
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"They found a pretext to oust me," Cusi told Reuters.
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Oracle's lobbyist probably was, too, and the news offered pretext.
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The law forbids such a pretext from justifying DACA's termination.
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Mr. Long said this was a pretext for his firing.
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Mr. Long said this was a pretext for his firing.
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That gave him a pretext to remain in the race.
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And the Palestinians, certainly in Gaza will use it as a pretext -- as a pretext to try to rile up the masses against Israel, but what they want is not a peace with Israel.
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In some cases, it is found to be merely a pretext.
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He can use antifa as a pretext for deploying troops domestically.
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It's a pretext for seeing the world in a different way.
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European diplomats worry that the protests will give him a pretext.
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It's clearly a pretext to cover themselves for what they did.
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It's almost like it was a pretext to explore different visualizations.
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Schumer accused Graham of using a "pretext" to block the resolution.
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He said and I quote, "At a minimum, the letter that Carter Page wrote, provides us a pretext to interview him", pretext is code for an excuse to interview Carter Page, how explosive is all this?
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"Under the absolutely invented pretext of Russian interference in their "Under the absolutely invented pretext of Russian interference in their domestic affairs the United States is aggressively pushing forward, one after another, crude anti-Russian actions.
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Its rapture is instead a pretext for telling a story about trauma.
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Advocates cite these concerns as a pretext for strict location privacy laws.
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And as it so happens—what better pretext for collecting burger boxes?
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Navalny said he was excluded from the election on a false pretext.
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"This is a classic pretext to crack down on dissent," he said.
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But they could provide a pretext for Iran to resume uranium enrichment.
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But this plan was used as a pretext to short Chinese companies.
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At best, investigatory or pretext stops were supposed to be a deterrent.
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It hadn't invaded Iraq under the false pretext of weapons of mass destruction.
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The bogus regulatory warning gave all Chinese firms a pretext to shun it.
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His pretext, police say, was that he needed help finding a missing drone.
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At the least, our government stood down to have a pretext for Iraq.
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He can be a team player without the pretext of his fake bravado.
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The launch was widely viewed as a pretext for a ballistic missile test.
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The pretext was the plight of two local ranchers, Dwight and Steven Hammond.
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Critics fear Erdogan is using the coup as a pretext to curtail dissent.
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Misled the Court to provide a pretext to SPY on the Trump Team.
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Toews begged the nurses not to let her sister leave on any pretext.
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A pretext call was done but no incriminating statements were made by [Silva].
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Rousseff's opponents want her gone, and they're using the charges as a pretext.
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That would give Turkey a pretext to intervene on behalf of Sunni Turkmen.
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"Well, that was a pretty lightweight pretext to ostracize me, anyway," he concluded.
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In any case, the plot is just scaffolding — a pretext for the dancing.
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Many constitutional lawyers question whether he had a right to use that pretext.
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The provincial soccer federation barred hijab-wearing girls on the pretext of safety.
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"This (inspector general's) report was used as a pretext for dismissal," McCabe writes.
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They need that as the pretext for ushering in the repression they crave.
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But more often it serves as a pretext to quash anti-government dissent.
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This time without even the pretext of war, and with added heartbreaking cruelty.
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"The pretext that this attack came as a response to the aggression that targeted the Taji base is a false pretext; one that leads to escalation and does not provide a solution," Iraq's Joint Operations Command said in a statement.
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Has a prominent world leader refused to visit your country under a flimsy pretext?
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And it uses the pretext of the border to extend the government's surveillance infrastructure.
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If Rubio wins Florida, though, he has a pretext to stay in the race.
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Ukraine had used the incident as a pretext to introduce martial law, he said.
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But rising deforestation, on the pretext of development, threatens the sustainability of the ecosystem.
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If he loses, those in charge may find some pretext to invalidate the election.
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He was called in on some pretext, a point of rules, a required signature.
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Critics called that rationale a pretext, with the Supreme Court's majority embracing that theory.
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A zealous enforcement of the fiscal rules provided the pretext for Ms Rousseff's impeachment.
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Against their lies, data was the only reality, the pretext you could believe in.
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Then, dropping the pretext even more, he bemoaned the media coverage of his presidency.
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Critics say Erdogan has used the coup attempt as a pretext to curtail dissent.
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She got in there on one pretext and really wanted to discuss something else.
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He announces allegedly punishing tariffs as a pretext to win negotiations on bilateral agreements.
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Under the Trump administration, the United States has utterly abandoned any pretext of evenhandedness.
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Alexander believes the raw-meat controversy was pretext for expelling Rogers from the ministry.
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Either that, or a vague pretext for murder—see: Heavenly Creatures (1994), Monster (2003).
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The very pretext of the death tax insults the core of the American spirit.
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The suit, ingeniously, has given Daniels's lawyer a pretext to make that agreement public.
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But, as for the dead woman, Zalie Dyer is little more than a pretext.
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America was a repressive place for women, without even the pretext of legal equality.
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I fear this fire might be used as a pretext for delaying the elections.
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They fabricated the whole story in order to have a pretext for the attack.
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He said that if India used some pretext to attack Pakistan, Islamabad would respond.
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"The effects are in some ways just a pretext to come together," he said.
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A top Russian official accused Washington of "fabricating" a pretext to impose further sanctions.
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"We allege that what's happened to Evi is a pretext to basically shut her up, and that that pretext is illegal retaliation in violation of the Whistleblower Protection Act," said Jeff Ruch, the Pacific director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
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Sure. But with her deceitful attack, she gave him the pretext to make that claim.
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Yet now we learn he wanted to stop Trump, he wanted to find a pretext.
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More pointedly, the pretext of deterrence is not a legally sufficient basis for separating families.
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Rights groups say Erdogan is using the coup as a pretext to crush his opponents.
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The new move is to focus on child safety rather than terrorism as a pretext.
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In the past, he's been accused of using violence as a pretext to delay elections.
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Mr Ross's stated justification for querying citizenship, the lower courts found, was just a pretext.
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They warned Trump against using it as a pretext to fire Rosenstein or Mueller himself.
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Critics say Erdogan has used the state of emergency as a pretext to quash dissent.
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Temer's critics, however, said he merely found a pretext to avoid acknowledging an embarrassing defeat.
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" Wall said, in essence, that Kennedy was not endorsing a "wide-ranging search for pretext.
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And others contend that some of the fiercest criticism is mounted on a false pretext.
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After all, he used Comey's election antics as a pretext for firing him last May.
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Even art galleries have been closed on the pretext that activists like to gather there.
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One of my bruises is getting larger and I use it as pretext to call.
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He has also used that demagoguery as a pretext for cracking down on political opponents.
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Erdogan's critics accuse him of using the failed putsch as a pretext to quash dissent.
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"The Trump administration's justification was mere pretext," Georgetown Law's Joshua Geltzer wrote in The Times.
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He dismissed fears that political activists would be sought under the pretext of other crimes.
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And they use that as a the pretext for validating their perceptions in some sense.
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One of those antique data-storage devices provides the pretext for a bit of plot.
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German paramilitaries — the Freikorps — rampaged through the Baltic States under the pretext of fighting Bolshevism.
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What adds insult to injury is the national-security pretext, which is absurd and insulting.
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This has been the pretext by which that system has been attacked again and again.
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He said US outcry over Iranian missile tests is a pretext for expressing hostility toward Iran.
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Its release could end up serving as pretext for removing those responsible for the Mueller probe.
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Piano transcriptions can be overly scholarly and serve as a pretext to showcase the performer's virtuosity.
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The girls originally had contact with him under the pretext of giving him massages, authorities say.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused the United States of seeking a pretext for regime change.
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"They fabricated the whole story in order to have a pretext for the attack," he said.
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Germany has voiced concern that Erdogan is using the coup as a pretext to quash dissent.
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Critics of Erdogan accuse him of using the failed putsch as a pretext to quash dissent.
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Western politicians say the dragnet is a pretext for Erdogan to rid himself of his opponents.
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Leaders need a pretext to convince the center that a major crackdown of dissidents is required.
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But in the oral argument, this pretext was exposed as a strategy for limiting abortion access.
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This will serve as a pretext for autocratic regimes looking to crackdown on press freedom abroad.
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Likewise, it also furnishes an outstanding pretext for Moscow to strengthen its military bases in Syria.
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Her ostensible pretext for calling the election was to win a stronger mandate for Brexit negotiations.
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Today's board vote, while couched as an effort to prevent such a transaction, was pure pretext.
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Since Justice Kavanaugh has already been sworn in, this time even the pretext would be absent.
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Although the blockade had been talked about for months, the ransom deal provided a useful pretext.
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The workplace dodge is a common pretext for why punishing protesters does not violate their rights.
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Hysterectomies were recommended for disabled women in institutions on the pretext they couldn't handle their menstruation.
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They have been using each and every pretext to attack President Trump, lash out at him.
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The left is worried that this is all pretext for Mr. Trump to fire Mr. Mueller.
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The Scottish National Party will use Brexit as a pretext for another referendum on Scottish independence.
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Is that all af Klint's indescribable work amounts to, the pretext for a show by Quaytman?
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Those policies failed and gave Cuban leaders a pretext to run the country like a police state.
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" Sondland insists they "need to get the conversation started and the relationship built, irrespective of the pretext.
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And what if focusing on building a solid career is a pretext for avoiding the big stuff?
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Their hunch is that the West dislikes losing and will use any pretext to hold China back.
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The pretext of preventing foreign meddling is being used as a means to strangle dissent more broadly.
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He used a couple of violent incidents as the pretext to ban the group from home matches.
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He said they confiscated corporate documents tied to various Hermitage subsidiaries on a spurious tax evasion pretext .
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The problem for the Trump administration, however, is that nationality may be a pretext for religious discrimination.
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But if the UAE really planted the quotes, then that pretext makes it the provocateur, not Qatar.
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Critics accuse President Tayyip Erdogan of using the coup attempt as pretext for a reckoning political opponents.
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"The humanitarian crisis is being used as a pretext for foreign intervention in my country," Arreaza said.
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Trump claims of widespread voter fraud are a pretext for cracking down on voters who favor Democrats.
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Ortega, like Hernández, has used the threat of gang violence as a pretext to increase police powers.
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President Tayyip Erdogan's critics accuse him of using the failed putsch as a pretext to quash dissent.
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"No, I don't," Wenstrup said when asked if the memo serves as a pretext for a firing.
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It's been one of those things where it's being used as a pretext to justify the pipeline.
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However, it is rare to do so under the pretext that the information involves a foreign government.
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To me, the battles in these films are just a pretext for the characters to hang out.
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And with the Islamic State largely gone, there was no longer a pretext for an American deployment.
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The church dispute "may become a pretext for open military invasion," said the intelligence chief, Vasyl Hrytsak.
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She sent a Facebook message from Miami on the pretext of asking him about New York hospitals.
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Instead, the works on offer felt like a pretext for bringing people, both audiences and artists, together.
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Meanwhile, the Bush Administration's pretext for invading Iraq was collapsing, and so was Wood's trust in government.
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The North has typically used such drills as a pretext to conduct weapons tests and reject dialogue.
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"I would say the president is using the situation with the Uighurs as a pretext," he says.
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Continuing street protests could give him the pretext he needed if he were to change his mind.
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He said the fine been suddenly and illegally enforced as a pretext to stop him traveling abroad.
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In fact, the referendum merely provided a pretext, not the reason, for the Iran-directed military action.
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Or at least that was the pretext — he went there to find himself as a black man.
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In its report, Amnesty suggests that authorities are using recent counterterrorism efforts as a pretext to justify torture.
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"Monroe's allegations were nothing more than an unfounded pretext to terminate the (contract)," BP said in the filing.
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If he wants to stay in the race for a while longer, he has the pretext he needs.
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The Japanese attack had given President Roosevelt the pretext he sought to bring the US into the war.
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"The states' explanations" for the strikes were "race neutral and were not the product of pretext," Hood argued.
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The selection of presidential and vice presidential nominees is, in a sense, not much more than a pretext.
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He claims the investigation is a pretext and that Sweden would hand him over to the United States.
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According to the lawsuit, Butler invited her to his apartment under the pretext of talking about the team.
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"Maroney said that she was repeatedly subjected to sexual abuse by Nassar under the pretext of being "treated.
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Critics accuse the government of using the coup as a pretext to purge dissident voices from public institutions.
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Maybe they want a pretext to enjoy the titillation of sex and violence, just as they always did.
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" Sondland responds that it's important to "get the conversation started and the relationship built, irrespective of the pretext.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the action "aggression against a sovereign nation" on a "made-up pretext".
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Ukraine has called the accusations false and says they look like a pretext for Russia to escalate hostilities.
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In 2004, Weinstein lured the Russian TV host to his room under the pretext of a professional meeting.
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Critics of President Tayyip Erdogan accuse him of using the failed putsch as a pretext to quash dissent.
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Rights groups and some Western governments say Erdogan is using the crackdown as a pretext to quash dissent.
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Human rights groups have expressed concern he could use the coup as a pretext to further restrict freedoms.
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Officials have invoked the idea of "stable" electricity as pretext for bailing out money-losing coal power plants.
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There is both justification and danger in the Fed citing China as pretext for caution about interest rates.
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If Mr Puigdemont wanted a pretext to back down from his confrontation with Madrid, he now has one.
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She began to worry that she'd participated in a profiteering land grab under the pretext of environmental custodianship.
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The organization also said it views the changes as a pretext for the eventual elimination of the program.
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Sotomayor understands that the pretext of voter fraud has been used for generations to justify voter suppression efforts.
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"The hacking was a pretext for us to be attacked," bin Abdulrahman, the Qatari foreign minister, told me.
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The American public fell for a false pretext in 2003 — and it cannot afford to do so again.
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Whatever was said between him and the proprietor, Carolyn Bryant, was used as the pretext for his murder.
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" Haniyeh said that Israeli forces had intruded "150 to 199 meters on the pretext of searching for tunnels.
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This provided the pretext for the next day's actions: White residents burned Black Wall Street to the ground.
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"The states' explanation's" for the strikes were "race neutral and were not the product of pretext," Hood argued.
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Since I was bringing a photographer to Bedford Cheese Shop, any pretext of anonymity was out the window.
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Iran on Sunday dismissed the agreement as a pretext to legitimize the presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
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Rights groups and opposition parties have accused Erdogan of using the coup as a pretext to quash dissent.
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Trump refrained from a tit-for-tat response on the implausible pretext he wanted to avoid Iranian casualties.
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President Trump's reason for terminating DACA — claiming the policy has "legal and constitutional defects" — is a bogus pretext.
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Rights groups and some Western allies say Erdogan is using the putsch as a pretext to quash dissent.
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Some accused women of hiding smuggled gold in their vaginas, as a pretext to strip and violate them.
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"I think the genocide is used as a pretext, as a justification for everything they do," he says.
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But the gatherings also appeared to be a pretext for power brokers to enjoy a comfortable winter getaway.
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"For them, 349 is a pretext for a more aggressive project against institutional order in Cuba," he concludes.
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The Mannis had plausibly claimed the bank's explanation for the termination might be a pretext for discrimination, Cox said.
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His enemies in Washington finally forced him to resign in 1874, on the pretext that he'd committed financial irregularities.
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Perhaps that consistent bipartisan record helps explain why three different federal courts found Ross' explanation to be a pretext.
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"Absolutely, but we need to get the conversation started and the relationship built, irrespective of the pretext," he wrote.
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Trump has changed that norm by firing Comey on a thin pretext out of anger over the Russia investigation.
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The combination of haste and pretext lacing into a vulnerable population has become a tragically familiar brew of late.
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But often this serves as a pretext for managing workers out of the job, three former moderators told me.
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But as the linchpin of a theory that publishers pivoted to video on a false pretext, it's pretty flimsy.
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So her family have assembled in China to say their goodbyes, under the pretext of a last-minute wedding.
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The Trump campaign was offered incendiary information about Hillary Clinton by the Russians as a pretext for the meeting.
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Since then it has come to challenge Christmas as the most hallowed marketing pretext of the year (see chart).
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European leaders are worried that Ankara is using the failed putsch as a pretext to clamp down on dissent.
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Rebels fear that the Syrian regime could use the pretext of targeting al-Nusra to continue striking against them.
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Rights groups and Turkey's Western allies accuse the government of using the coup as a pretext to muzzle dissent.
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It was "ridiculous" for India to cross the border on the pretext of concern over the road, he added.
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"This lawsuit is a flimsy pretext to keep Ms. Tantaros and her sexual harassment claims in the public eye."
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The original panel had concluded that the Russian state illegally expropriated Yukos, using tax-evasion charges as a pretext.
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Victorian America's wild campaigns offered a pretext for restrained young ladies to enjoy public fun and influence their government.
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"Sondland replied: "absolutely, but we need to get the conversation started and the relationship built, irrespective of the pretext.
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But Turkey's allies, including Germany, fear President Tayyip Erdogan is using the purges as a pretext to curtail dissent.
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This is reckless and unproductive—unless the aim is to provoke Iran into providing a pretext for military intervention.
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"Ukraine uses the word 'terrorism' as a pretext for seizing this court," Russian foreign ministry official Ilya Rogachev said.
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It is raising alarm bells among Turkey analysts that this is a pretext to expanding Turkey's invasion into Syria.
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Under the false pretext of deradicalization, China's largest province has quietly become the largest outdoor prison in the world.
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Elsie Eyakuze, a blogger and newspaper columnist, said the government was citing taxation as a pretext to muzzle dissent.
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I believe that this language conflating passion and profession is becoming an increasingly shameless pretext to exploit precarious workers.
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But that flimsy pretext also served as a defense against the allegation that Trump obstructed justice by firing Comey.
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said the Russian accusations were a cynical pretext to make more military threats against Ukraine.
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Mullins and Craig said Phillips was using his Christian faith as pretext for unlawful discrimination based on sexual orientation.
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Since then, the statute has been used as a pretext to round up, harass, and lock up young Tunisians.
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That claim was used as a pretext to disenfranchise citizens, robbing the opposition of an electoral path to victory.
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Human rights groups warn the public backlash against tech companies is being used as a pretext to censor speech.
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Instead, under the pretext of Syrian refugees' resettlement, his forces will move in to destroy Kurdish fighters and civilians.
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Mr. Jawar said the demand was part of what he described as a pretext for an attack against him.
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But he said he is opposed to any actions taken by Google under the pretext of stopping fake news.
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We're discussing whether, now that this is out, we use it as a pretext to go interview some people.
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However, doing so under the pretext that the information comes from a foreign national is not a common practice.
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European politicians accuse him of using the coup as a pretext for mass arrests and dismissals that stifle dissent.
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This is the pretext that the central bank has used to warn of further rate hikes in the future.
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" Sondland replies: "Absolutely, but we need to get the conversation started and the relationship built, irrespective of the pretext.
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In other words, Zarif's presence deprives international hardliners of the pretext for war they have been so desperately seeking.
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Mr. Richard said California's strict environmental regulations have become a pretext for anyone who wanted to stop the project.
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"It is quite useless to become outraged on the pretext that Trump voters 'don't believe in facts,'" Latour writes.
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For instance, Russia could use it as a pretext to argue for recognition of Crimea as a Russian province.
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He said the labor board would also have to consider whether the safety issue was a pretext for dismissal.
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But it's perhaps more likely that the Commerce Department will come up with another pretext that Roberts will accept.
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"There is no prejudice, this is merely a fallacious pretext to attract attention," one Facebook lawyer said on Thursday.
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Detail claims in June 2014, Drake invited him to his Calabasas estate, on the pretext of working together again.
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If excess prices were just the pretext for regulation, then what's the real goal of the FCC's new scheme?
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Turkey's Western allies, particularly in Europe, have voiced concern Erdogan is using the coup as a pretext to stifle dissent.
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Rights groups and some Western allies fear President Tayyip Erdogan is using the coup as a pretext to stifle dissent.
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Damascus and its allies have said reports about poison gas in Douma were fabricated as a pretext for Western strikes.
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A pretext for US to enter WWII The assault on Pearl Harbor was not only foolhardy, it was ultimately suicidal.
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"The government cannot use the pretext of the 'border' to make an end run around the Constitution," the ACLU writes.
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"By invoking this section, it's easy for authorities to pick you up under any flimsy pretext," Sinha told BuzzFeed News.
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This also means we don't have any narrative pretext for mixing up the choreography in response to his physical limits.
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The commercial opens with the clever conceit of Alexa losing her voice, as a pretext for ushering in celebrity substitutes.
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Those courts, in New York, Maryland and California, found that the rationale offered by the Commerce Department was a pretext.
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And more stringent punishments could be meted out to those who use cows as a pretext to exacerbate communal tensions.
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Additionally, Syrian Kurdish sources say they believe Turkey would like nothing better than a pretext to go after the YPG.
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Critics of President Tayyip Erdogan accuse him of using it as a pretext to crush dissent, a charge he denies.
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It was widely speculated that Trump could even be searching for a pretext to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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" She said that the tragedy "provided a pretext for the wrong wars, which have only gotten us into more trouble.
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But no one really takes this pretext at face value, given that Trump faces no serious opposition in those contests.
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The officials have denied the charges, and called them a pretext as part of an effort to topple Maduro's government.
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Most said their families had been targeted on the pretext that they or their relatives were linked to Islamic State.
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It's an unevenly enforced law at best, but a good pretext for many a police officer to meet ticket quotas.
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They were "crisis actors" hired to promote the story as a pretext to impose tighter gun restrictions, the theory goes.
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The pretext for missing the event, that rain prevented the planned helicopter trip, suggested at the very least poor planning.
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Human rights groups and Turkey's Western allies fear Erdogan is using the coup as a pretext to quash his opponents.
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There is a history of false rape accusations against black men, which have largely been used as pretext for lynchings.
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He thought the crowds around his palace would disperse once he left, robbing the Chinese of a pretext to attack.
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The pretext for this long-distance marriage was my education, but it was also for her freedom from patriarchal expectations.
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"These fantasies are just a pretext for another portion of military threats against Ukraine," Mr. Poroshenko said in a statement.
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These American technological advances rattle Russia and China, which cite them as a pretext to develop their own new weapons.
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A guy ordered us to follow him under the pretext that he wanted to check our passports a second time.
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Rights groups and Turkey's Western allies have expressed concern that Turkey using the coup as a pretext to quash dissent.
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Increased global efforts to combat trafficking often provide a pretext to crack down on sex workers, human rights groups say.
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Craftily, Tony uses the pretext to have Felix fired and take his place as the artistic director of the festival.
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But that swearing-in is also a pretext for what has become a highly politicized victory lap for the president.
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The pretext was that Qatar was funding and hosting terrorists, but the feud was much wider and went back decades.
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But in Latin America, the doctrine has long been viewed as a pretext for American armed intervention in the region.
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Mueller's FBI faced outside criticism for allegedly using community outreach efforts as a pretext for collecting information on Muslim Americans.
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They will not go quietly into obscurity, or jail, and will be looking for a pretext to fire Mr. Ramaphosa.
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That was the pretext the administration later used to justify its decision to include it — and which Judge Furman rejected.
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"This is an act of aggression, on an absolutely made-up pretext," Lavrov told a news conference in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
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For Mr. Bonadio, the agreement undermines the criminal investigation in the AMIA case and is the pretext for my indictment.
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Turkey vehemently opposed both plans and likely used the news as pretext for a long-planned campaign against the Kurds.
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Partly as a result, the inspector general argued in his report, it was simply a pretext for relitigating Browning-Ferris.
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Therefore, the pretext was something of a disappointment and a distraction from getting lost in what actually was ravishingly perceptible.
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Brett then went to work for George W. Bush, who invaded Iraq on an unjustified pretext and destroyed countless lives.
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Democrats have feared that Republicans would use any failure to comply as a pretext to fire the deputy attorney general.
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And he may be empowered by the haphazard political coalition that trampled democratic practices under the pretext of saving democracy.
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"They confined him at home under the pretext that he had to be quarantined after the trip," the friend said.
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"They confined him at home under the pretext that he has to be quarantined after the trip," the friend said.
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George W. Bush and his neoconservative war architects used Hussein's attacks on the Kurds as a pretext for the invasion.
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Mr. Trump's most strident supporters in the Senate were quick to create a pretext of suspicion around the Bolton news.
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Does Ackerman really think Abed's grass-roots Syrian movement parallels the United States' ocean-crossing, false-pretext invasion of Iraq?
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He warned that Mr. Fillon's platform was little more than a pretext to strip workers of rights while companies profited.
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Critics, including rights groups and some Western allies, say Erdogan is using the coup as a pretext to muzzle dissent.
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The pretext was that Westerman would join Geas and others in robbing the nearby home of a suspected drug dealer.
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Clinton, he said that the information she supplied was essentially meaningless and merely a "pretext" for discussing the adoption issue.
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He'd send out subpoenas and demand testimony from Justice Department officials, under the pretext that he's merely doing oversight work.
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In the meantime, we firmly oppose the interference in China's internal affairs by anyone under the pretext of human rights.
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Embargo a pretext for repression The economic embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba failed to force Castro from power.
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It's under that pretext that Republicans came out in a show of support for Gorsuch at the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
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The rebels fear Russia will use the exclusion of attacks on jihadists like Islamic State as a pretext to bomb them.
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Permission to indulge pretext and raw political preference can be too easily manipulated, by liberal administrations no less than conservative ones.
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Particularly after seeing John Solomon&aposs article today, it just becomes, using the term from that quite that you had, pretext.
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The violence will weaken some of the movement's support, spook big business and could give Beijing a pretext to dig in.
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The report says prisoners are moved in the middle of the night from their cells under the pretext of being transferred.
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Turkey's Western allies and rights groups worry that President Tayyip Erdogan is using the coup as a pretext to curtail dissent.
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Those statements, to a sitting governor and president, that all votes be counted, was the pretext to scripture read on Sunday.
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I don't know how many more White Male Artist covers Modern Painters can do and still maintain any pretext of relevance.
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This proved false, as emails showed that Donald Trump Jr. agreed to meet on the pretext of receiving the damaging information.
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West European politicians have accused Erdogan of using the coup as a pretext for mass arrests and dismissals that stifle dissent.
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Kowalczyk also said that the beetle outbreak, which environmentalists see as a pretext for cutting down trees, needed to be reduced.
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He had previously blocked humanitarian aid efforts, denying his country was in crisis and calling aid a pretext for military intervention.
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Her mother had invested so much money and research into finding a pretext for believing what her daughter had told her.
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"It seems unlikely DSHS'S professed purpose is a valid state interest and not a pretext for restricting abortion access," Sparks wrote.
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"FIFA implemented these regulations on the pretext that young football players such as the claimant must be protected," said the statement.
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He got out of the camp a second time on the pretext of going to Kyrgyzstan to fetch his elderly mother.
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That decision, critics argue, lent credence to the military's claims of criminality among protesters and provided a pretext to the violence.
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" She said the 9/11 attacks "provided a pretext for the wrong wars, which have only gotten us into more trouble.
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The Russian news agency Interfax reported comments from the Kremlin which said the strikes had happened under a "far-fetched pretext".
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The officials have denied the charges and called them a pretext to try to topple Maduro's government, something Washington has denied.
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The filmmaker and actress said Weinstein made "aggressive advances" on her, inviting her to his hotel room under a professional pretext.
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Ngo claims the explanation was a "pretext" and that no other employees in his group were laid off at the time.
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By contrast, rather than cow China, America's enhanced military role gives it a pretext to carry on with its build-up.
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During the event, she says, another scientist lured her into a hallway on a pretext and then suddenly groped her buttocks.
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This is the pretext under which the Bush administration unilaterally imposed tariffs on imported steel back in 2002 — without congressional action.
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Russia used the conflict as a pretext to send in "aid convoys," presenting itself as a benevolent responder in an emergency.
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If they seek a pretext to destroy North Korea, they should openly say so and the U.S. leadership should confirm it.
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Next, Abadi will order his military and police commanders to take back those heavy weapons under the pretext of repairing them.
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Human rights groups and Turkey's Western allies President Tayyip Erdogan is using the coup as a pretext to quash his opponents.
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This was just a pretext; I wanted to use his phone to call the commander and see what he would say.
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He claimed that, under the pretext of having to send a secret commission to Bakai, Shyfrin diverted the money to himself.
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Administration critics said the White House was using the health issue as a pretext to end President Barack Obama's reconciliation policy.
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The condo manager who had called us had concocted the story as a pretext to get our son off the property.
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White got Nesbit to his apartment on the pretext that he was having people over and then plied her with Champagne.
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Social media may simply provide a new pretext for hesitant parents who would otherwise cite a different reason for their decision.
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For damage control, Alex is ordered to make nice with the prince, putting up the pretext of a long-running friendship.
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The pretext for this attack was Omar's remarks last month at a fund-raiser for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
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While they were gone, guards deliberately allowed two of the remaining captives to untie themselves as a pretext for shooting them.
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Only then will we really know which aspects of China's response were effective, and which were simply pretext for authoritarian action.
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Mr. Putin, for instance, said that the Democrats were just trying to use any pretext, however minor, to attack Mr. Trump.
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Those accusations, based on his actions nine years ago, are a thin pretext for keeping him incarcerated, his family members say.
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It was the first time North Korea had flown a missile over Japanese territory without the pretext of launching a satellite.
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Austin: So in some ways is this just revealing something that was always there in Animal Crossing underlying as a pretext.
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In an interview with ABC News on Sunday, Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow effectively admitted the pretext for the meeting was inaccurate.
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Afghan officials have protested the closing, saying that Pakistan has used the shrine attack as a pretext to pressure Afghanistan economically.
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Sondland123:45 AM July 21Absolutely, but we need to get the conversation started and the relationship built, irrespective of the pretext.
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Our liberal opinion corridor thus offers the perfect pretext for cynics and xenophobes to parade their prejudice as truth-telling courage.
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Both leaders use crisis as a pretext for strengthening executive power while leaving the shells of their country's democratic institutions intact.
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When President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey back in May, his administration at first offered a laughably implausible pretext.
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The technical details of the video, whether it was doctored or not, were a pretext for Trump's continued attacks on the press.
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Voter fraud, which studies have shown to be very rare, is being used as a pretext to strip people of the vote.
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After all, there will always be some pretext or talking point that can be used by the president's supporters to justify him.
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Putin, in televised comments, accused the United States of blaming Russia for violations as a pretext for Washington to exit the pact.
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If it&aposs our bottom line, it&aposs dead on arrival and then provides a pretext for John Bolton to make mischief.
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What worried Seshu the most, she added, was that the government was ignoring "real news" under the pretext of combating fake news.
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Some Republicans would like the United States to stop buying Venezuelan oil; that would cause disruption but provide a pretext for repression.
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In August 2016, she said Simmons invited her to his Los Angeles home on the pretext that they would discuss the project.
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Rights groups and some of Turkey's European allies fear President Tayyip Erdogan is using the coup as a pretext to crush dissent.
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His detention comes as no surprise in a country where allegations of embezzlement are often used as a pretext to silence dissent.
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Turkey's Western allies have criticized the crackdown, with Erdogan's critics accusing him of using the putsch as a pretext to quash dissent.
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Kiev says the clashes never took place and Moscow fabricated the incident as a possible pretext for new military action against Ukraine.
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Swedish-style laws are often used as a pretext to crack down on migrants, says Niina Vuolajarvi, a sociologist at Rutgers University.
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Dissenting writers are bullied on the pretext that they have outraged religious sentiment; since 2013, some "rationalist" writers have even been murdered.
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" Responding to the actor's denial, Braudy told THR, "I believe this is part of the problem, as is his pretext of victimization.
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Under a false pretext, the workers were taken to the forest edge and told to temporarily drop their belongings on the roadside.
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However, Russian officials have accused the United States of inventing a pretext to end the treaty, allowing them to develop new weapons.
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Ankara's Western allies have criticized the crackdown, with Erdogan's critics accusing him of using the putsch as a pretext to quash dissent.
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For many, the Olympics serve as a pretext for accelerated real estate speculation in areas settled by the poorest and most vulnerable.
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Their pretext was the protection of a cherished tradition—eating from food stalls during the Chinese new-year holiday—from zealous officialdom.
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City hall should be making these improvements anyway, the mayor admits, but the Olympics provided a "pretext" to push them through quickly.
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Rosenstein should have already recused himself from the Russia investigation given his role in establishing the flimsy pretext for James Comey's firing.
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Stalin was afraid that Hitler would use the slightest pretext to launch an invasion, and warned his forces to do nothing provocative.
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"This assertion seems like a thinly veiled pretext to exclude immigrants and racial minorities from being counted literally and figuratively," he said.
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Wily party leaders often use this as a pretext to refuse to take up legislation that might inflict long-term political damage.
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Additionally, the U.S. has argued that Iran is using the 1955 treaty as a pretext to get out from under stiff sanctions.
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" Responding to the actor's denial, Braudy told THR, "I believe this is part of the problem, as is his pretext of victimization.
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The generic appeal to history is the pretext racists use to support the valorization of a slave society and its military leaders.
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No pretext to escape from our families, our children, and all the other people who make our lives a monotonous living hell.
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The petitioner's claim was that the motorist was really stopped because of racial profiling, and that the traffic infraction was a pretext.
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The story of a pair of clumsy criminals becomes a pretext for celebrating the beauty and complexity of Mexico's landscape and history.
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We endured Turkey's barrages and avoided returning fire, even after civilian casualties, so as not to provide a pretext for this invasion.
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She offered the pretext that she had interned at a cable network and was interested in trying behind-the-scenes work again.
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That will be even more true if the Nunes memo serves as part of the pretext for Mr. Trump firing Mr. Rosenstein.
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All the while, conspiracy-minded Vietnamese devoured rumors of C.I.A. collusion in the Communist attacks, an apparent pretext for accelerating American withdrawal.
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The militants reclaimed Azzan in 2013, but this time under the pretext of stopping thugs who had robbed and killed local people.
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Every situation is pretext for a confrontation: underdone eggs, a pile of rumpled clothes, a hand reaching too quickly for the radio.
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And the ultimate objective is to undermine the Justice Department, undermine Bob Mueller and give the president a pretext to fire people.
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In the first ruling against the question, U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman dismissed the Voting Rights Act argument as a mere pretext.
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Iran will give Trump a pretext to act on his threats to respond "disproportionately," including the bombing of these unspecified cultural sites.
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Rastas have faced persecution, even in their revered Ethiopia, and their use of marijuana used as a pretext to lock them up.
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It has long cast the accusations as a Western plot to damage its reputation and provide a convenient pretext for more sanctions.
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An embargo could allow the regime the pretext to reinforce its narrative of a hostile U.S. government meddling in its domestic affairs.
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Now, many people in Burundi expect Mr. Nkurunziza to use the new Constitution as a pretext to run for office yet again.
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"The fall in production in Australia seems a pretext because (it is) already known to the majority of analysts," consultancy Agritel said.
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That raised the question of whether Mr. Trump might have been looking for a pretext because the talks had run into trouble.
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Critics in Turkey and abroad say President Tayyip Erdogan is using the coup as a pretext to muzzle dissent and purge opponents.
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Main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa said he feared the government would use the incident as a pretext to clamp down on opponents.
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But this may also be a pretext for Trump to push harder for his request for $75 billion more in defense spending.
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Some in the EU were skeptical and believed Ankara was using the failed coup as a pretext to go after Erdogan critics.
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Although the order was signed under the pretext of protecting Americans from terrorism, it actually may have put us in greater danger.
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What worries environmentalists is that "thinning" is often a pretext for unnecessary logging of healthy trees, a sop to the timber industry.
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Instead, since September, Prince Mohammed has sent hundreds of clerics, intellectuals and Islamic thinkers to prison under the pretext of fighting terrorism.
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A pivotal moment for him came when his daughter, Ashley, gave him the audiobook of James Bamford's "A Pretext for War" (22015).
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She says that she was taken to his home on June 4, 2017 on the pretext of being hired for a job.
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Rights groups and Turkey's Western allies have criticized the crackdown, saying Erdogan has used the coup as a pretext to muzzle dissent.
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Reports from inside the administration suggest that it's all about the Russia investigation, and that the email stuff was just a pretext.
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A third artist, Delia Brown, also described feeling that Close only wanted to photograph her as a pretext to see her topless.
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But Trump, who has long criticized Rosenstein, could very well use the news as pretext to fire the Justice Department's second in command.
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Time and again, the government has tried to use the pretext of the border to introduce, normalize, and expand surveillance technologies and practices.
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Amnesty's report, Human slaughterhouse, says prisoners are moved in the middle of the night from their cells under the pretext of being transferred.
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IF YOU need a pretext for a political climbdown in Latin America, they don't come much better than a plea from the pope.
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Democrats want a pretext to rummage through Trump's financial records, so they've ginned up this weird clause from the Constitution as their excuse.
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In the end, it is almost impossible to pinpoint exactly when Berlioz's personal obsession and opium predilection become the pretext for performance art.
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Mr Erdogan could mess with Istanbul's funding, tie Mr Imamoglu up in red tape or even find some legal pretext to prosecute him.
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But at some point, Rosenstein will flatly refuse Nunes, which could be just the pretext Trump would need to order Rosenstein to comply.
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Kim might be looking for a pretext to get out of his meeting with Trump, and the military exercises provide a perfect excuse.
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Abu Omar, a Failaq al-Sham spokesman, accused Damascus of trying to create "a malicious charade" as a pretext to attack rebel towns.
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By curbing donations, the DOC uses supposed drug smuggling as a pretext for denying prisoners the pursuit of knowledge, happiness, and personal betterment.
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China seems to find the exercises provocative enough to try to deter America from further sorties—or perhaps they provide a useful pretext.
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In the MSNBC interview, McDermott said Israel is attacking Obama as a pretext for pushing Trump to adopt friendlier policies than Obama had.
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The YPG says its forces have withdrawn from the area and their presence could not be used as a pretext for an attack.
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Police stopped the car after observing that the occupants were not wearing seatbelts (a pretext, of course, but constitutional under Supreme Court precedent).
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Russia has claimed that a bombing raid hit ISIS chemical weapons and that this is a pretext for the expansion of the war.
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Lamb has one ad in particular that Democrats nationwide should copy, effectively portraying the tax cut as a pretext for cutting those programs.
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The pretext behind the regulation is the need to tamp down on speakeasies, but the license is notoriously difficult and expensive to obtain.
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WikiLeaks called the Guardian's story "indisputably fabricated" and said it was being used as a pretext for the United States to prosecute Assange.
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Its Western allies, particularly in Europe, have voiced concern that President Tayyip Erdogan is using the coup as a pretext to stifle dissent.
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Perversely, while not doing much to contain the virus, some House members have seized upon it as a pretext to weaken environmental regulations.
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In the current case, women and girls appear to have been lured under the pretext of spiritual guidance, said DCW chief Swati Maliwal.
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" But the assassination, he added, "could be used as a pretext to carry out terrorist acts in Kiev and other territories of Ukraine.
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The Kremlin has denied the accusation, and claimed the U.S. is simply using it as a pretext to start a new arms race.
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But leading Russian human rights activists said the authorities were using the air disaster as a pretext for an assault on basic freedoms.
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Jean Veil, lawyer for the Duchess of Cambridge, said the article which accompanied the photos was only a pretext for publishing the pictures.
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Former Deputy Attorney General Donald Ayer, who served under President George H.W. Bush, suggested that Rosenstein's proffered justification for the firing was pretext.
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But the pretext of irony as a way of furthering bigotry isn't just a tactic wannabe Nazis of the 21st century have developed.
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Granted, such meetings by phone allow for more remote participation, but that's likely a political pretext justifying absence from face-to-face confrontations.
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"Throughout (2018), authoritarians used claims of 'fake news' and data scandals as a pretext to move closer to the China," the report said.
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But critics say the ban is being used as a pretext for discrimination against Muslims amid growing resistance to Europe's liberal immigration policies.
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As a pretext for the withdrawal from the I.N.F. Treaty, the United States invoked Russia's alleged violations of some of the treaty's provisions.
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The exhibition may be aesthetically unsatisfactory, but it is a great pretext to talk about the world and the art world around us.
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This trumped-up crisis serves as a legitimation tool for Fidesz's authoritarianism, a pretext for the government to pass laws undermining its opponents.
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Still, impeachment efforts that are wholly grounded in politics without even a thin pretext of an actual crime haven't gotten very far, historically.
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Syrian state television dismissed the claims as a "chlorine play" by terrorist groups trying to provide Western countries a pretext to attack Syria.
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Centeno said existing rules were flexible enough and warned the government against using the 2020 budget as a pretext to push for changes.
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"Hypocritical concerns about the humanitarian situation in the country is a mere pretext," said Vassily A. Nebenzia, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations.
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But we already have a shooting gallery of smoking guns from the trial record demonstrating that the Trump administration's justification was mere pretext.
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DARGIS I think their hanging out is the pretext for the battles, but O.K. SCOTT The ethic and the aesthetic is fundamentally authoritarian.
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The zombies are merely a pretext through which we can see how people come together in a crisis … or more hauntingly, fail to.
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The supposed existence of weapons of mass destruction provided a pretext for Iraq's annihilation, which allowed Iran to vandalize an enormous Arab nation.
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Clearly, Trump's invocation of national security is a pretext, a way to bypass the rules that are supposed to limit arbitrary executive action.
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He urges fans to investigate what he calls "false flags," supposed events staged by powerful institutions as a pretext for curbing individual freedoms.
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Rights groups and some of Turkey's Western allies say that President Tayyip Erdogan is using the coup as a pretext to quash dissent.
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He said he wondered if President Joseph Kabila would use the situation as a pretext to postpone elections that are due in December.
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Why it matters: The president's remarks suggest he may be seeking to distance himself from responsibility or recast the pretext for the call.
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In February, South Korea's top court affirmed an earlier decision that Mr. Lee's punishments were a pretext and that he should be reinstated.
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The agency said it didn't want cash and weapons falling into Islamist hands, but this move exposes that claim as a mere pretext.
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"I say that it was a pretext because they fired him in order to stop the criticism on social media," Mr. Pyle said.
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The far-right Vox party, which strongly opposed Franco's exhumation, dismissed the proposed legal reform as a pretext for shutting down free speech.
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Democrats fear Trump will use the memo as a pretext to fire Rosenstein over his approval of an extended surveillance warrant for Page.
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Some believe that the sultan has been citing the need for sexual equality only as a pretext to maintain his nuclear family's power.
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" Russian UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia also slammed the US for using the meeting to bring up the Iranian protests under a "bogus pretext.
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It gives inflation-targeting central bankers the pretext for massive intrusion in the financial markets and Wall Street speculators endless bubble finance windfalls.
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"The national security pretext is absurd and frankly insulting to Canadians, the closest and strongest ally the United States has had," she said.
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Orbán was using the pretext of a legitimate national interest — regulating foreign entities operating in Hungary — to crack down on an ideological threat.
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The New York trial had convincingly demonstrated that Ross's "sole stated reason" for including the citizenship question was a "contrived" pretext, Roberts argued.
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But when white people have said the same about minorities, it has historically been a pretext for violence or justification for exclusionary politics.
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A focus on technicalities in the first week was interpreted by campaigners as a pretext to avoid discussions on pledging deeper emissions cuts.
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But winning his home state especially gives him both a sizable delegate haul and a pretext to stay in the race for some time.
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The opposition has expressed fears government forces backed by the Russian air force will continue to attack rebels under the pretext of targeting Nusra.
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At the same time, it was possible to get plenty of public information without any kind of false pretext, at low or no cost.
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After talking about films over breakfast, Headey said that Weinstein then led her to his room under the pretext of giving her a script.
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She alleged that after complaining of his advances, TCW fired her on the pretext that she had violated the firm's conflict of interest rules.
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Their pretext was that they had a letter from a classmate (it spoke of how Mr. Fogle was investigating the fire as a historian).
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They must be especially vocal in opposing China's framing of the situation as "terrorism", which could be a dangerous pretext for a harsh crackdown.
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Johnson claims that UPS used a customer's complaint about one of his deliveries as a pretext to fire him because he is African-American.
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The girls allegedly were originally lured into contact with Epstein under the pretext that they would be giving him "massages," according to the indictment.
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Thousands of people marched against it, saying it could be used as a pretext to hand over people who are wanted for political reasons.
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Authorities also say Indivior then stopped manufacturing Suboxone under a flimsy pretext to delay regulators from approving generic competitors that would cut into profits.
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And those tour-stunted artists who did use "exhaustion" as a vague pretext were mostly subject to Twitter diagnosing them with mental illness anyway.
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The memo alleges that the FBI used the Steele dossier on Trump-Russia ties as a pretext to obtain FISA wiretaps against American citizens.
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Dozens died in violent protests in January 2015 against a revision of the electoral code that critics said was a pretext to delay elections.
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Yet the very first sanctions it re-imposed have cancelled licenses for sales of 200 plus passengers jets under absurd pretext endangering ordinary Iranians.
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Critics like Kilicdaroglu accuse Erdoğan of using the pretext of the failed coup to effectively carry out a second coup and grab more control.
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For this reason, Section 4 is a favorite of thriller writers concocting scenarios in which malefactors use some bogus pretext to depose the president.
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It could be argued, of course, that Huggins's concern for his family was merely a pretext for his own fear of going to jail.
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The crackdown was widely criticised by rights groups and Turkey's Western allies, who said the coup was being used a pretext to muzzle dissent.
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"I am deeply concerned that falsehoods about illegal voting are being spread as a pretext for restricting access to the ballot box," Shaheen said.
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But here in America, it appears the Agriculture Committee's focus on national security is just pretext to justify cronyist and fundamentally unsustainable agriculture policies.
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Any expert understands that Washington's decision on air strikes predates the Idlib events, which simply served as a pretext for a show of force.
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The 'Sevastopol' has been illegally held at the port, the ministry said without adding what had served as the pretext for the alleged detention.
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Such measures have alarmed Turkey's Western allies and rights groups, who say Erdogan has used the attempted coup as a pretext to muzzle dissent.
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While plainly pleased to startle, he takes the subject as a pretext for amplifying his specialties of sinuous form, pulsating color, and virtuosic brushwork.
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Pelosi could also be playing her own political games, telegraphing reluctance now, only as a pretext to making a stronger case for impeachment later.
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That would give himself a pretext to crack down even further on his perceived enemies and pursue more power by establishing an executive presidency.
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As top Nixon aide John Ehrlichman admitted in 85033, President Nixon declared the War on Drugs as a pretext to criminalize people of color.
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Irina began to spend all her spare time in her late mother's home, on the pretext of cleaning it, but really avoiding her own.
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They said Russian officials sometimes blame Iran-backed forces for breaking the truce or use jihadists as a pretext for attacks against the Ghouta.
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Invoking the Logan Act was Yates's flimsy pretext for deploying federal agents against Flynn, but the anti-Trump media went along with the charade.
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Other questions I have: When is a genre-bending meta-novel no longer a clever postmodern conceit but merely a pretext for puerile shenanigans?
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The racial pretext, context, and any damn text for those opposed to a black Superman should be obvious as fuck by now (racial bias).
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At least eight of those cases involved pretextual car stops, when law enforcement stops someone considered "suspicious" under the pretext of a traffic violation.
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Dozens died in violent anti-government protests in January 2015 over a proposed law that critics said was a pretext to delay the election.
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In the annexation of Crimea and its actions in Ukraine, Moscow has used protecting the rights of ethnic Russians as a pretext for intervention.
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Both main rebel factions in turn accuse their enemies of using the presence of a few hundred jihadist fighters as a pretext for attacks.
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A few weeks later, she emailed him to request a copy (which she later admitted was just a pretext to resume their brief acquaintance).
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The pretext for that warrant was predicated on the existence of human trafficking at that massage parlor, something the police have not yet proven.
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The facts brought out at trial made clear that this was a mere pretext for a pre-existing commitment to adding a citizenship question.
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Pyongyang certainly liked that since it claims the joint drills are both a pretext and rehearsal for a US-led invasion of North Korea.
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The philanthropy is nice, but it's really just a pretext to get them together each year, so they can live life shoulder to shoulder.
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They are reluctant to accept the White House's claims at face value, and do not want to provide Washington with any pretext for war.
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Further wrapping the frames to match the jewel tones of each image, Bennett conflates the performance of femininity with the pretext of art itself.
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"The national security pretext is absurd and frankly insulting to Canadians, the closest and strongest ally the United States has had," Ms. Freeland said.
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He later suggested the chemical attack had been faked using child actors as a pretext for Mr. Trump to justify an American military response.
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"Certain external forces are swimming against the current and continuing to stir up trouble under the pretext of 'freedom of navigation,'" Mr. Geng said.
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He once told RT that the United States might drop an atomic bomb on Ukraine and blame Russia to create a pretext for war.
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Government opponents saw the statement as signaling that the Syrian military intended to keep bombing wherever it chose on the pretext of fighting terrorism.
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But the body and balance of the fumet were so right that it became the point of the dish; the shellfish were mere pretext.
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And out of this was born corrupt officers who use warrants on the pretext that they are arresting you or searching you for drugs.
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"It creates a pretext that's quite difficult to disprove for officers to approach and search our clients in neighborhoods with a high police presence."
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What many of us have noted is that for the Trump administration, claims about national security are too often a pretext for covert racism.
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The participants argued about the same question that divides Kepel and Roy: Did everything come back to Islam, or was that just a pretext?
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Democrats have been trying to impeach the president for years — this was a pretext to try and smear the president in an election year.
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While fomenting war against Ukraine, Russia has illegally annexed Crimea on the unfounded pretext that it was part of Russia in the first place.
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The challengers in the lawsuit allege the administration used concerns about the Voting Rights Act as a pretext to hide animus against certain ethnicities.
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Chapman then allegedly convinced Feden to drive to the desert "under the pretext of participating" in a BDSM-themed photoshoot, the criminal complaint stated.
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But plaintiffs say that is a pretext, and they want U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman, who is hearing the case, to strike the question.
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Phil Levy, a trade adviser for the George W. Bush administration, said the president was most likely looking for a pretext to kill Nafta.
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After winning re-election, he used the 1972 Communist Easter offensive as a pretext to impose harsh restrictions on independent media and political parties.
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"It is not difficult for political opponents of executive actions to generate controversy with accusations of pretext, deceit and illicit motives," Justice Thomas wrote.
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The pedaladas charges are a fig leaf that gives the opposition a legal pretext for getting rid of an unpopular president they don't like.
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Both countries have dismissed the reports of the alleged gas attack as bogus, accusing Washington of using it as a pretext for the strikes.
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It accuses the United States of inventing a false pretext to leave an accord it wants to exit anyway to develop its own new missiles.
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Human rights organizations have voiced increasing concern about media freedom in Turkey, accusing Erdogan of using the abortive putsch as a pretext to quash dissent.
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Trump has made several, sometimes unsupported claims related to crime committed by immigrants, and used that rhetoric as a pretext for his restrictive immigration policies.
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" She then said the committee believes "Trumpster lawyers will leak info about upcoming appearances, blame the committee, then use as a pretext not to cooperate.
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Resende, the site of Nissan's newest plant in Brazil, was the main pretext for Nissan to buy the apartment, located in the famed Copacabana neighborhood.
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I get that even having the pretext to contemplate such disillusionment is an incredible privilege, beyond sympathy or even empathy of many in this world.
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The North has long demanded that the 28,500 American troops be withdrawn, citing their presence as a pretext to justify its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
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Putin said that Russia bore a share of blame for the IOC decision for having given international Olympic authorities a pretext for banning the country.
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Some in the opposition believe that Mr Maduro's regime staged the event to rally its own flagging supporters and provide a pretext for a crackdown.
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"Hanging the threat of closing a profitable plant on the pretext of financial distress is a cynical scheme that should not be rewarded," said Gaier.
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They say they have used the presence of a few hundred fighters from al Qaeda's former Syria branch as a pretext to attack the enclave.
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That whole e-mail setting up the meeting was nothing but a pretext you know -- MACCALLUM: It was a way to get to the meeting.
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"The American leadership was defeated in Iraq and wants to return again under any pretext, and this is what we will never allow," he said.
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And now her mother could give the pretext she'd found to the whole world, so that the rest of the world could love as well.
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According to some U.S. officials, Washington has been doing its best to ignore Duterte's rhetoric and not provide him with a pretext for more outbursts.
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The scope of the crackdown has alarmed European allies and rights groups, who fear Erdogan has used the coup as a pretext to quash dissent.
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Such a phantom foe would provide him with a pretext for an authoritarian crackdown on dissent and a consolidation of power within the Oval Office.
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But TPLF chair Debretsion Gebremichael said on Monday the arrests ordered under "the pretext of corruption and human rights are being used to attack Tigrayans".
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In a workforce with so many guidelines for conduct, rules can be selectively enforced, and small violations can become a pretext for punishing other wrongs.
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The memo's heavily disputed findings could give Trump a pretext to fire Rosenstein, who appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel and who oversees his investigation.
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But the SEC said the defendants have since "lied" to investors about those proceedings, to create a pretext for their inability to meet redemption requests.
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Every aspect of Fleck's neuroatypicality is stigmatized, coded as a reason to be suspicious of him, and used as pretext for his descent into violence.
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An outside lawyer for Trump has argued that Neal's stated purpose is pretext and that Democrats really just want to score political points against Trump.
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Furman said he was unable to find that Ross's decision to add the question was a pretext for impermissible discrimination, as the challengers had argued.
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Gusinsky then fled Russia and NTV soon passed into the ownership of Gazprom, Russia's state gas behemoth, under the pretext of an undischarged financial debt.
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I have warned in recent weeks that the Nunes memo was designed to become a pretext for Trump to first fire Rosenstein and then Mueller.
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Maduro offered no actual evidence to support this accusation, but nonetheless used it as a pretext to arrest six individuals allegedly implicated in the plot.
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But the machinations are just a pretext for such sequences as an escape in a crowded transit station and pursuits involving multiple teams of cars.
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"We understand that deploying them in Japan or South Korea would be done under the pretext of preventing the threat from North Korea," Putin said.
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"It is unacceptable for the U.S. to use a threatening language against Turkey, using an ongoing court case as a pretext," spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said.
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Trump was using a lame pretext of a conflict of interest involving the Trump golf club in Virginia where Mueller had once been a member.
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Drawing on Porter's work, Senator George McGovern accused the Nixon administration of using the events in Hue as a pretext to continue American involvement there.
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Are people genuinely offended, or are they looking for a pretext to be offended — because taking offense is now the shortest route to political empowerment?
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They say the child pornography charges, based on his actions nine years ago when he was 20, are a thin pretext for keeping him incarcerated.
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Mr. Trump and administration officials are using the misplaced public outrage as a pretext to call again for the repeal of the law protecting children.
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A few weeks later, he used the pretext of the arson of the Reichstag to pass an enabling act that in effect replaced the constitution.
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The Kremlin cited the case of Dima Yakovlev, a Russian toddler who died after being adopted by American parents, as a pretext for the rule.
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"In their bid to find shelter, or be handed green cards, residency status or have their asylum bids accepted, any pretext is claimed," he said.
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Rights groups and Turkey's Western allies have criticized the scope of the crackdown, saying Erdogan has used the coup as a pretext to quash dissent.
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President Trump, surrounded by advisers seemingly determined to take a harder stance toward Iran, is reportedly seeking a pretext to eviscerate the 2015 nuclear accord.
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The murders were used as a pretext for an anti-communist pogrom by Indonesia's military and Islamic groups that led to at least 500,19673 deaths.
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The crackdown has alarmed Turkey's Western allies and rights groups, who say President Tayyip Erdogan is using the coup as a pretext to muzzle dissent.
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The Chinese favor this course, in part, analysts warn, because they view it as a pretext to reduce the United States' military presence in Asia.
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So, before Trump can fire the prosecutor who is hot on the corruption trail of those in the president's inner circle, he needs a pretext.
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It's more like the Monica Lewinsky scandal, where the charges are merely a pretext and the real driving force behind the impeachment is political partisanship.
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The government was carefully working on an environmental impact study so that no one could use it as a pretext for "judicial sabotage," he added.
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Turkey's Western allies, particularly in Europe, have voiced concern Erdogan is using the coup as a pretext to stifle opposition to his 15-year-long rule.
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But the United States and its allies consider the program a pretext for developing technologies that can also be used to build an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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Christians overwhelmingly supported the army chief-turned-president, Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, and extremists have used such support as a pretext to increase attacks against them.
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In "Stranger Things", the bad guys are scientists on the American government's payroll, who use the cold war as a pretext for dangerous and exploitative experiments.
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How hard would it be for him to use antifa, "ecoterrorists," or inner-city gangs as a pretext to expand police powers or justify political violence?
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Putin won re-election for six more years in March with opposition leader Alexei Navalny barred from running on what he says was a false pretext.
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"While I consider matters of personal security to be extremely serious, personal security should never be used as a pretext to obtain special treatment," Whitehouse said.
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In her case, Komie said, a mud flap a couple of inches too short provided the pretext to stop the rented U-Haul she was driving.
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"Your offending glorifies and encourages the mass murder carried out under the pretext of religious and racial hatred," Judge O'Driscoll said, according to the RNZ report.
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The judge ruled that Mr Yee's repeated prosecution in Singapore for hate speech had been a pretext to punish him for his criticism of the government.
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Rights groups and Turkey's Western allies have voiced concern over the crackdown, saying President Tayyip Erdogan has used the putsch as a pretext to muzzle dissent.
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"There must be more discussions and consultations between countries, and there cannot be resorts to force or threats of force at the slightest pretext," Xi said.
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Liberal activists retort that the riots have provided a pretext for a crackdown on dissent that bodes ill for looming national elections, and for Indian democracy.
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Rights groups and Turkey's Western allies have expressed concern about the crackdown and suspect the government has used the coup as a pretext to quash dissent.
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That left Moore, whose nomination collapsed after the revelation of a long series of misogynistic writings offered a plausible pretext for Senate Republicans to spike him.
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"It's very likely that Beijing will use the unexpected success of localist candidates as a pretext for cracking down even harder on Hong Kong," he says.
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Those featured in the video describe children being taken away from their parents at the border under the pretext of being given a bath or food.
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Your obligation is to grow the economy, and the pretext for that cut was that it was going to give you a lot of economic growth.
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Under the pretext of 'fighting terrorism', the regime exiled, prosecuted and convicted several opposition leaders, community leaders, journalists, bloggers, and activists; paralyzing criticisms of any type.
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As the numbers grow, each player would seek "a pretext to free himself of the trouble and expence, and would lay the whole burden on others".
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On the pretext of reforming the judiciary, the assembly is likely to sack the attorney-general, Luisa Ortega Díaz, a supporter-turned-critic of the regime.
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The crackdown has alarmed rights groups and some of Turkey's Western allies, who fear the government is using the coup as a pretext to quash dissent.
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The two main Islamist factions there in turn accuse their enemies of using the presence of a few hundred jihadist fighters as a pretext for attacks.
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Trump has a long history of hiring contractors, using their services, and then not paying them under the pretext that he's not satisfied with their services.
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Rights groups and Turkey's Western allies have criticized the scope of the crackdown, saying Erdogan has used the abortive coup as a pretext to quash dissent.
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"This case has been so absurd that anything is possible," he said, adding that the inquiry could be a pretext to try to dissolve the party.
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And it's why, the week after Loyalty Day, "loyalty" became the pretext for his decision to fire the FBI director who was investigating Trump's own campaign.
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Legislators and military officials expressed concern that Erdoğan's promise was simply a pretext to eliminate U.S.-linked Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria, groups Ankara considers terrorist.
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Unfortunately, some in the administration clearly see the summit not as a step towards peace but as a prelude to, possibly even a pretext for, war.
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"I am deeply concerned that falsehoods about illegal voting are being spread as a pretext for restricting access to the ballot box," New Hampshire Democratic Sen.
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The night before her first match, Steven Lopez visited her hotel room under the pretext of discussing the match and sexually assaulted her, the lawsuit claims.
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The memo could also be used as a pretext to fire Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general overseeing the investigation, or special counsel Robert Mueller himself.
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The opposition has expressed fears government forces backed by the Russian air force will continue to attack rebels under the pretext of targeting the Nusra Front.
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Emails uncovered during litigation revealed that Ross had actually pressured the Justice Department to make the request so he'd have a pretext to add the question.
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He spoke to Reuters recently about how REMS can provide a pretext for keeping generic drugs off the market and how legislation could address the issue.
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It has accused the United States of inventing a false pretext to exit a treaty it wants to leave anyway so as to develop new missiles.
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Soon after, jokes stop being jokes, as they did in occupied France in the 1940s, and Céline's rhetorical violence suddenly became the pretext for real killings.
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Bush showed slides purporting to be him searching under desks for the pretext for a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people, with running commentary.
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Turkey's Western allies and rights groups have criticized the massive crackdown, saying President Tayyip Erdogan has used the abortive coup as a pretext to quash dissent.
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It's fine, and the final beats go to some unexpected places, but it's mostly a pretext to place the residents of Tacoma in an extraordinary situation.
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The tax cuts are creating larger deficits than Republicans predicted, and those deficits are now being cited as a pretext for cutting spending on the poor.
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A few months earlier, Anjum had lent David and Komel a car, and, as a pretext, Sidrah planned to tell them that he needed it back.
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Gamergate should have taught businesses that online mobs can and do look for excuses to be outraged, as a pretext to harass and abuse their targets.
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As the crisis has deepened, political opponents have called on Mr. Duterte not to use it as a pretext for strengthening his grip on the country.
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" Whitehouse adds, "While I consider matters of personal security to be extremely serious, personal security should never be used as a pretext to obtain special treatment.
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Many protesters saw the law as a pretext that would allow officers to arrest nonviolent demonstrators in order to discourage people from joining the street actions.
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However, lawyers and activists said that most of those detained were not engaged in prostitution and that the accusations were used as a pretext for persecution.
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Although Stalin was almost certainly behind his death, the murder was used as a pretext for a purge of those considered hostile to the Communist Party.
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"Another dangerous U.S. escalation in Syria on fake pretext will only serve ISIS, precisely when it's being wiped out by Iraqi & Syrian people," Mr. Zarif tweeted.
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"While I consider matters of personal security to be extremely serious, personal security should never be used as a pretext to obtain special treatment," Whitehouse wrote.
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There, in 1933, he was arrested by the Nazis for alleged complicity in the Reichstag fire, which Hitler used as a pretext to suspend parliamentary government.
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This pretext will be thrown out by the WTO, and retaliatory measures by Canada would seem inevitable if you end up imposing tariffs on our supplies.
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Lewandowski, though, never actually served in the White House, which means the Trump administration didn't even have a thin pretext to argue that he couldn't testify.
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The C.C.P. could have lured him back to China and packed him off under some pretext like poor health while silencing the rest of his family.
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Linking Al Qaeda to a despotic Middle East regime was exactly the pretext that the George W. Bush administration used to invade Iraq, with catastrophic results.
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Human rights organizations have voiced increasing concern about media freedom in Turkey, accusing President Tayyip Erdogan of using the abortive putsch as a pretext to quash dissent.
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Rights groups and Turkey's western allies have voiced alarm over the scale of the crackdown, saying Erdogan is using the coup as a pretext to quash dissent.
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That is just pretext: This bill, along with others in states across the country, are precisely designed to discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons.
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Watson was a victim of what Wallace dubs "journalism's purity ritual," which can be described as using objectivity as a pretext to fire someone for their politics.
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Its handmaiden is a cult of "historical memory", which is at best an oxymoron (memory is subjective and personal) and at worst a pretext for rewriting history.
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The cons: Some workers might prefer to receive those per-transaction fees directly, or companies might use such fees as a pretext to lower take-home pay.
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A US exit would barely hurt Iran and would also give it a pretext to kick out IAEA inspectors and start ramping up its nuclear program again.
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Rights groups and Turkey's Western allies have voiced concerns over the crackdown, saying President Tayyip Erdogan has used the abortive putsch as a pretext to quash dissent.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces accused Turkey on Saturday of using cross-border shelling as a false pretext to launch an offensive in Syria.
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" According to Russian state-run news agency Sputnik, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Friday that Putin believes the attack was done under a "trumped-up pretext.
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Decades of deliberate underfunding allowed buildings to fall into disrepair, providing a pretext for "managed decline" ahead of demolitions celebrated as "regeneration"—criticized as gentrification by many.
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Critics say Trump is highlighting crime as a pretext for plans to kick out as many undocumented immigrants as possible, regardless of whether they pose a threat.
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Saudi Arabia used an attack on its embassy in Tehran as a pretext to fuel tensions, Iran's foreign ministry said on Monday after Riyadh severed diplomatic relations.
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During the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, Weinstein led the French actress up to his room, under the pretext of retrieving a book he wanted to give her.
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Rights groups and some of Turkey's Western allies have voiced concern about the crackdown, fearing the government is using the coup as a pretext to quash dissent.
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But Russia, one of Assad's most fervent allies, dismissed the allegation and suggested that the U.S. was trying to create a pretext for attacking the Syrian government.
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Iranian officials have repeatedly denied responsibility, however, and they accuse the United States of using the pretext of an attack to steal money that is rightfully theirs.
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Jeff Sessions, the former attorney general whom the president forced out last year, wrote an opinion piece for Fox News condemning the impeachment investigation as a pretext.
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If desperate enough, Trump may find a pretext to launch an attack against Iran or North Korea in an attempt to divert attention from his domestic troubles.
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" Freeland said of the US tariffs, "The national security pretext is absurd and frankly insulting to Canadians, the closest and strongest ally the United States has had.
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The mayor joked about it in a 2012 TV interview: "The Olympics pretext is awesome; I need to use it as an excuse for everything," he said.
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Human rights groups and some of Turkey's Western allies have voiced concern about the crackdown, fearing Erdogan is using the coup as a pretext to quash dissent.
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He suggested that the airline was having buyer's remorse over its contract with Gogo and was using customer service as a pretext to get out of it.
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And that the meeting quickly turned over to the matter of Russian adoption, which is probably the pretext from for the entire meeting from the very beginning.
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In written complaints and in interviews with The New York Times and their lawyers, they said the charges serve as a pretext for beating and isolating them.
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In both the annexation of Crimea and its actions in Ukraine, the Russian government has used protecting the rights of ethnic Russians as a pretext for intervention.
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"The first week, many were [unwilling]; they did not want to wash their hands with the pretext that God is good and will protect us," Paul said.
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It refers to when a priest uses the pretext of the sacrament of confession to commit an immoral act with a penitent or seeks to commit one.
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While Carlson's lawsuit might not ever make it to trial, it has given Ailes's enemies a pretext to get rid of him while he's at his weakest.
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Future presidents, too, could use it to appropriate money and seize private property without congressional authorization, especially if there is some national security pretext for doing so.
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Does Trump have any larger goal in Korea other than to find a pretext for a military exit and gain a moment of glory along the way?
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During the Great Depression, as many as one million Mexicans and Mexican-Americans were deported under the pretext that they were to blame for the economic downturn.
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" It was more than plausible, he added, that the revised order's "stated national security interest was provided in bad faith, as a pretext for its religious purpose.
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Qatar, the site of the largest American air base in the region, charged that Saudi Arabia and the Emirates were inventing a pretext to bully their neighbor.
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One tour official said he used to leave the court during juniors matches, on the pretext of going to the bathroom, to call his mother for advice.
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"He invited the children on the pretext of holding a birthday party for his daughter and locked the children in the basement of his house," Singh said.
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They contend that the text messages are being used as a pretext by the company to dismiss them for complaining about the handling of the MyTerm investigation.
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"The feeble excuses offered by Speaker Ryan are merely a pretext to cover for the whims of extremists in his caucus," Pascrell said Thursday in a statement.
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Republicans have alleged that Ukraine interfered in 2016 to give a pretext for Trump's claim he withheld aid because he wanted to investigate political corruption in Kiev.
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This new context is used by governments as a pretext for cyber wars and walls, and could unleash digital anarchy that posed serious threats to global security.
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But it also has become something of an excuse, a pretext to argue that the civilian government is essentially handcuffed, or "powerless," and cannot enact real change.
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Mr. Maduro's armed forces and other loyalists blocked the deliveries at the border, saying the aid was unneeded and calling it a pretext for an American invasion.
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"They know that's impermissible, which is why they created the pretext of the Voting Rights Act enforcement instead of just saying the quiet part loud," Wolf said.
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Gülen has denied the allegation and has said Erdogan could have staged the coup himself as a pretext for clamping down on his opponents and restricting human rights.
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But just weeks later, Rosenstein was tasked with writing a memo that would be the pretext for the president's firing of FBI Director James Comey — and did it.
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The article pointed out that Tehran's top authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had said new sanctions under any pretext would constitute a breach of the nuclear deal.
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It closed some bars and restaurants in central Beijing on the pretext of ensuring security, and unblocked foreign websites like Google at meeting venues, inaccessible to ordinary Chinese.
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"We are very much concerned that the alleged chemical use might be a pretext for something bigger and much more dangerous," Russian U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told Reuters.
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She brought it up under the pretext of: Here is why Frankel did not invite you to her Hamptons birthday party (because you are an embarrassing drunk mess).
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He is using the ludicrous pretext of national security to justify his threats of car-import tariffs, in order to circumvent the rules of the World Trade Organisation.
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In 1985, Roma invited Carrie Baker, then a 210-year-old undergraduate at Yale, to his apartment under the pretext of meeting up before joining others for drinks.
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Under the pretext of attending a United Nations event on climate change, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff - currently undergoing an impeachment trial - will travel to New York on Thursday.
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U.S. recognition of Guaido could backfire if Maduro, who accused the opposition of attempting a coup, used it as a pretext to detain Guaido or other opposition figures.
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Russia says denies the missile violates the INF and accuses the United States of inventing a false pretext to exit the treaty in order to develop new missiles.
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"The blackout is a form of collective punishment of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, without even a pretext of a precipitating offence," they said in a statement.
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And so even though Trump's history suggests he likely would've supported the 1994 crime bill, he has no shame about using it as a pretext to attack Biden.
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As we reported, Detail claims Drake invited him to his home back in 2014 on the pretext of working on a project, but it was really an ambush.
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The French government officially abandoned those plans in January of this year, a decision that quickly became a pretext to evict activists who refuse to leave the zone.
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Western and Arab states accuse the Syrian government and Russia of using links between rebels and Nusra as a pretext to launch offensives against other opponents of Assad.
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"Your offending glorifies and encourages the mass murder carried out under the pretext of religious and racial hatred," Judge O'Driscoll told Arps during sentencing today, according to RNZ.
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Collins would certainly have the pretext to flip her vote, already devastatingly unpopular, and progressive activists are still targeting her despite her support for the original Senate bill.
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There is considerable concern that the mainland Chinese government either will capitalize on the events as a pretext for sweeping suppression of the protests, or actually orchestrated them.
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Supreme wants to be a community center for skaters, so they want people to come, and to have some pretext for being in there—looking at the clothes.
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Rights groups and Turkey's Western allies voiced concern over the scale of the crackdown, saying President Tayyip Erdogan has used the coup as a pretext to quash dissent.
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But the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces - which the YPG spearheads - accused Turkey of using cross-border shelling as a false pretext to launch its offensive in Syria.
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To repeat a point I have made a number of times, the FBI is not permitted to use its counterintelligence powers as a pretext to conduct criminal investigations.
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The main public justification for the Republican Party's top legislative priority isn't some fact-based pretext, like the justifications for the Bush tax cuts, but a complete fabrication.
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" China also warned that when the U.S. "willfully exits from groups based on its own interests under the pretext of 'American First,' it becomes an enemy to all.
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Had she seriously entertained the idea of ringing the doorbell and being invited inside again, without any reasonable pretext, into that place where she most definitely wasn't wanted?
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Deripaska has denied those allegations and claims FBI agents told him in 2202 that the State Department file blocking his entry to the country was merely a pretext.
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And if Trump emerges from impeachment hearings to compete in the 2020 election, Mexico's security problems risk giving him another pretext to go after its government, Alcocer added.
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Additionally, this bank also ensures that states do not have to build their own reactors, or use civilian energy programs as a pretext for covert nuclear weapons programs.
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And Mr. Trump has argued that the moderators should steer clear of fact-checking the candidates in real time, creating a potential pretext for withdrawing from later debates.
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But the Constitution was essentially a sham document, and Mr. Karimov's perceived enemies were brutally silenced, jailed, exiled or killed, often under the pretext of fighting Islamic terrorism.
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Mike: Let's talk about the centerpiece of the movie — this community meeting that is the pretext for the whole date, which she keeps insisting is not a date.
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The girl, now 17, claims she was attacked by Sengar on June 4, 193 when she was taken to his home on the pretext of getting a job.
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Human rights groups have criticized Turkey for detaining so many journalists and have accused the government of using the failed coup as a pretext to silence critical journalists.
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First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri made the remarks without acknowledging the protests, adding that some have used economic issues as a "pretext" to hurt the government, FARS reported.
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Officials have blamed producers looking for a pretext to turn land over to avocado orchards for a spike in the number of forest fires in Michoacán this year.
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Russia says the chemicals that killed civilians last week belonged to rebels, not Assad's government, and accused the United States of an illegal aggression on a false pretext.
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Universities had began making deals with soft drink corporations, which were funding consumer research under the pretext of health studies, while grabbing exclusive access to campus vending machines.
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Dozens died in protests in January 2015 against a revision to the election law that opponents said was a pretext to keep Kabila in power beyond this year.
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So while Maduro and some foreign figures have accused U.S. humanitarian aid of being a deliberate provocation and pretext for intervention, those on the ground don't necessarily agree.
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And if Trump emerges from impeachment hearings to compete in the 2020 election, Mexico's security problems risk giving him another pretext to go after its government, Alcocer added.
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Moscow said the strikes were couched under a "far-fetched pretext" and had put the Russian military on "the verge of fighting" American troops stationed in Syria's northeast.
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The young woman asking for a cigarette — not the woman he is expecting, but someone he'll have to deal with — doesn't approach him with any pretext of seduction.
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Dimitris Pantoulas, a political analyst and risk consultant in Caracas, expects that the alleged assassination attempt will be used as further pretext to crack down on possible opponents.
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" Churkin meanwhile blamed the opposition, which he said "did not really come to negotiate [in Geneva], they came to look for a pretext to walk out of negotiations.
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Rights groups and Turkey's Western allies have criticized the scope of the crackdown, saying President Tayyip Erdogan has used the abortive coup as a pretext to quash dissent.
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In fact, he said, it became clear to him that "the claims of potentially helpful information were a pretext" for Veselnitskaya to lobby him on the adoption issue.
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As a group, we cannot stand by as our government, under the pretext of enforcing the law, violates it and traumatizes children and their parents in the process.
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In May, under the dishonest pretext of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, Mr. Trump withdrew from "the horrible 2015 Iran nuclear deal" that had ensured just that.
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Groups that received financial support from the O.S.F. were providing assistance to the refugees massed along Hungary's border, and this became a pretext for Orban's war on Soros.
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He warned that Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi had to placate an army with a history of pushing aside civilian leaders under the pretext of defending national sovereignty.
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And they warned Trump on Friday not to use the memo as a pretext for firing special counsel Robert Mueller or his supervisor, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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Though the novel centers on an alleged sexual assault, the crisis is used primarily as a pretext to meditate upon lying rather than on its post-#MeToo ramifications.
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Iran summoned the Saudi charge d'affaires in Tehran, accusing the kingdom of using terrorism as a pretext to suppress peaceful dissent among Shi'ites, who complain of systemic discrimination.
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Two months later, the police ransacked the offices of the Korea Confederation of Trade Unions under the pretext of finding railway union leaders who had been protesting privatization.
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He said that the furor over the ambassador's comments on gay rights was just a pretext and that the real issue was his bold condemnation of corrupt officials.
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While it would not directly give the United States authority for military operations in Mexico, many Mexicans are nervous Trump could use it as a pretext for intervention.
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Assad has accused the White Helmets of being an al Qaeda front, and his government says they fabricated chemical weapons attacks as a pretext for Western air strikes.
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Some of Turkey's Western allies and rights groups have expressed concern about the crackdown and suspect the government has used the coup as a pretext to quash dissent.
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The business groups urged the 5th Circuit panel not to allow the AGs to flout the rules on the pretext of developments they had every reason to anticipate.
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"I believe that those proposals now are ... a pretext to stop the advance of the Syrian army, which is trying to liberate the homeland," said Ahmad al-Issa.
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Ankara says the purges are aimed at rooting out coup supporters, but critics fear President Tayyip Erdogan is using the failed putsch as a pretext to curb dissent.
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The memo quickly triggered speculation that it would give Trump a pretext for firing Republican former FBI Director Robert Mueller, whom Rosenstein appointed as special counsel last year.
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Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justices Neil Gorsuch and Kavanaugh in an opinion, expressed suspicions of Furman's own motives as he had detailed evidence of pretext against Ross.
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"First of all, we need to say straight that to some extent we are guilty ourselves because we gave pretext for this," Mr. Putin said in televised remarks.
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What adrenaline does for the body, moral clarity does for semantics: It generates a surge of willpower, serving as a prelude to — and maybe a pretext for — combat.
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The misogyny and threatened masculinity on display half a world away is no different from what exists in the United States; the only distinction is in the pretext.
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"We view that as governments around the world taking advantage of the Trump 'fake news' framing and using that as a pretext of imprisoning journalists," Mr. Simon said.
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Police informers reported that Mr. Persico had lured Mr. Gallo to the bar on the pretext that he intended to switch sides once again and rejoin the Gallos.
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Or will Chatterjee, like Perry, simply find some pretext to hammer the square peg of coal into the round hole of energy markets that no longer need it?
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Democrats last week warned Trump against using the Republican memo as a pretext to fire Rosenstein, who hired Mueller and oversees the investigation, or to remove Mueller himself.
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He said from the outset that he believed the Swedish case was a pretext to extradite him to the United States to face charges over the WikiLeaks releases.
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The head of Poroshenko's security council said Russia's move was intended to give Moscow legal cover for deploying troops to eastern Ukraine on the pretext of protecting Russian citizens.
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But Germany, with France in tow, seems hellbent on using its own reading of that budget as a pretext for destroying the Italian economy and its democratically elected government.
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At some point, he'll have a pretext -- and you can bet groups like ISIS would absolutely love to bait him into a broad overreaction -- to fuse these thoughts together.
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Jones glommed onto these ideas, arguing that the 43 Oklahoma City bombing was a "false flag" planned by the US government as a pretext to crack down on dissenters.
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"Relevant countries shouldn't use Pyongyang's acts as a pretext to increase their military presence on the Korean Peninsula," Lavrov told a joint news conference, according to the Associated Press.
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The extent of the purges has unnerved rights groups and Turkey's Western allies, who fear President Tayyip Erdogan is using the abortive putsch as a pretext to stifle dissent.
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Rights groups and some of Turkey's Western allies fear that President Tayyip Erdogan is using the coup as a pretext to stifle dissent, from state institutions to political parties.
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"While I consider matters of personal security to be extremely serious, personal security should never be used as a pretext to obtain special treatment," Whitehouse wrote in the letter.
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Rights groups and some of NATO-member Turkey's Western allies have voiced disquiet about the crackdown, fearing the government is using the coup as a pretext to quash dissent.
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Democrats have long claimed that Republicans' harping on liberty was a pretext for lower taxes for the rich and fewer food stamps for the poor and curbs on pollution.
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But health authorities had repeatedly said the outbreak would not prevent the vote from going ahead, and locals say it is being used as a pretext to disenfranchise them.
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Argento alleged she was brought to Weinstein's hotel by a producer under the pretext of a party; instead, she said, it was Weinstein's hotel room, and they were alone.
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"That is to create an artificial problem where they don't have enough resources to police, and then use that as a pretext to get rid of the rules altogether".
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Rights groups and Western allies have warned that Erdogan was using the abortive putsch as a pretext to muzzle dissent, but the government has said the measures were necessary.
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All this would seem to provide a helpful pretext for firing Mueller or his boss Rod Rosenstein, or even just politically discrediting whatever Mueller does eventually come up with.
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Some fear this rejection could be used by his Israeli counterpart, Binyamin Netanyahu, as a pretext to annex areas of the West Bank, as he has sworn to do.
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He and others are reminded of the Gulf of Tonkin incident—a murky naval skirmish in 1964 used by America as a pretext for expanding its involvement in Vietnam.
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They probably hope to stay that course, but the IRGC designation could trigger a policy change or at least provide a pretext for factions in Tehran looking for confrontation.
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Yet on the other, if this period of mourning is used as a pretext to defer elections planned for next year, it could cast a shadow on investor confidence.
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Needing a pretext to shut down Rick's, the nightclub owned by Bogart's character, he declares that he is "shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here".
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This latest move is on the pretext of national security, and that makes it much harder for other countries to respond to it without setting aside the rules themselves.
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"This proposal for a trilateral agreement is, in reality, a poison pill designed to provide a pretext to allow for the [New Start] treaty to expire," Kimball told CNN.
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Now, with respect to what happened last afternoon, look, it could be a lot of things from a pretext set up by the Maduro regime itself, or something else.
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VW's labour bosses last week publicly clashed with the carmaker's brand management, accusing it of betraying workers and trying to use the scandal as a pretext for job cuts.
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He said Turkey had told Washington that it should not use the fighting in Syria's northwestern Idlib province as a pretext for disregarding the proposed safe zone further east.
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At best this commission was set up as a pretext to validate Donald Trump's alternative election facts, and at worst is a tool to commit large-scale voter suppression.
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Under the pretext of reporting a stolen phone, the women walked into the police station on Saturday morning, a knife and petrol bomb concealed in their traditional Buibui robes.
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Atrocities with "seemingly unconditional" Russian support Amnesty's report, Human Slaughterhouse, said prisoners are moved in the middle of the night from their cells under the pretext of being transferred.
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In light of these facts, it appears the allegations against Assange were a false pretext used by those who want to give him the Chelsea Manning treatment — or worse.
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Under To repeat a point I have made a number of times, the FBI is not permitted to use its counterintelligence powers as a pretext to conduct criminal investigations.
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Roy's crusades are validated by the various social injustices that are emergent under the pretext of economic development under Narendra Modi's India—she's right to rail against these injustices.
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But party leaders did not make even a pretext of operating separately from the president, meeting with Mr. Erdogan ahead of the announcement on Thursday, the Turkish media reported.
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Prosecutors have accused Kelly and Baroni of engineering the closures of the lanes, which lead to New York City, under the pretext they were needed for a traffic study.
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Moreover, while the state should be purged of pro-coup elements, this shouldn't be used as a pretext to pack state institutions, in particular the judiciary, with Erdogan partisans.
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This so-called "political stability" that Egypt seeks to project is also widely used as a pretext by western and Gulf governments to bolster regimes in the developing world.
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Given that Russian organizations that try to play public watchdog are often shut down under the pretext of being foreign agents, Dissernet was established with a purposely low profile.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has accused the West of supporting the plotters of the failed coup last month, and used it as a pretext for his crackdown.
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The statement said Washington was using North Korea as a pretext to expand its military infrastructure in Asia and risked upsetting the strategic balance of power in the region.
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Issa is giddy to go to an open mike to see her ex Daniel (Y'lan Noel), under the pretext that this night out is to assuage Molly's recent heartbreak.
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The statement said Washington was using North Korea as a pretext to expand its military infrastructure in Asia and risked upsetting the strategic balance of power in the area.
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But the People's Daily said China respected religious rights and accused some in the United States of having "ulterior motives" and using religion as a pretext to vilify China.
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In the past, Maduro's administration has denied charges from Washington, calling them a pretext to try to topple socialism in Latin America and win control of Venezuela's oil sector.
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The world can't expect Mr. Putin to take the first steps, so it's up to America to show sobriety and to avoid giving Russia any pretext for military action.
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" In response, a spokesperson for China's Foreign Ministry said, "The U.S., by sending officials to Taiwan under whatever pretext, severely violates the one-China principle and three China-U.
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But he needs a pretext for an attack on a sovereign nation that, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, is complying with the terms of the nuclear deal.
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The only reason she did not become pregnant, she said, was because she got her captor to take her to the doctor on the pretext that she was ill.
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One problem, they say, is loopholes that allow for firearms to be transported under the pretext they are destined for a border crossing, a gun show or a gunsmith.
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Currently in federal court, the suit alleges that Trump's attempt to divert funds to the border wall without Congressional authorization, on the pretext of a national emergency, is unconstitutional.
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In 2017, after she had returned to Charleston, a get-together on the pretext of talking about their respective businesses turned out to be the prelude to their romance.
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The crackdown has prompted sharp responses from news media, government critics and public intellectuals, who called the charges a pretext for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government to punish dissenters.
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"The Muslim ummah must become the eyes and the ears for the religious authorities when stumbling upon activities that are suspicious, disguising under the pretext of Islam," it said.
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But there's still time for the court to get the census case right by looking past the pretext to the Trump administration's real motivation for adding a citizenship question.
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The pretext for Donald's murder was a "not guilty" verdict handed down by a partially black jury to an African-American man accused of killing a white police officer.
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Many seemed to fear that the outspoken criticism by the Americans was simply a pretext to undermine the Iran nuclear deal, which President Trump has long desired to scrap.
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But "Batson claims" rarely succeed because they require the judge to declare the proposed stated reason for removal was only a pretext hiding discriminatory intent — a notoriously steep standard.
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Mr. Ford and his lawyer say there's a different explanation: that Morgan Stanley used the journalist's allegations as a pretext to fire him simply because he was disliked internally.
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A prosecutor, then, might be able to find a pretext for a similar conspiracy case if, for example, someone decides to leak the Mueller report, or Trump's tax returns.
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Maybe the tournament at Harrenhal was just a pretext for Prince Rhaegar to discuss arranging a Great Council to remove his unstable father from the throne, as some suspected.
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It is unclear whether he actually had anything worth that much in the van, or whether he was making the report as pretext to make a false insurance claim.
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In their current form, militias were established in Rio de Janeiro in the late '90s and early 2000s, under the pretext that they were protecting residents from drug traffickers.
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There's no excuse for this besides possibly meeting new rich people (donors) or just wanting a pretext to binge on takeout at South Carolina soul food spots or whatever.
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"Israel is stealing land specially in the Jordan Valley under the pretext it wants to annex it," Hanan Ashrawi, a senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organization, told Reuters.
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But Mr. Paladino's lawyers said those charges were a pretext, and that board members want him ousted because he made racist comments about President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama.
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Turkey's Western allies and human rights groups have voiced disquiet about the extent of the crackdown, fearing that Erdogan is using the coup as a pretext to stifle dissent.
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The Democrats fear the hunt for illegal voters will become a pretext to tighten voting requirements nationwide and bar many minority voters who tend to side with the Democrats.
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Rights groups and Turkey's Western allies have voiced concern over the scale of the crackdown, saying President Tayyip Erdogan was using the putsch as a pretext to quash dissent.
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Narayan added that the V.H.P.—the religious arm of the R.S.S.—had made preparations for large-scale attacks on the Muslim community and was merely looking for a pretext.
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Though Russian forces did invade Ukraine within days of Mr. Yanukovych's fall, the Kremlin never in fact accepted his plea for help as a legal pretext for doing so.
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Lindsey Graham (R-SC) shares Trump's analysis and has also argued that China could be using the trade clash as a pretext for interfering with US-North Korean talks.
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Pursuing poorly thought-out and even more poorly executed policies on the pretext of battling a nonexistent national security crisis, Mr. Trump has helped create a pressing humanitarian one.
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Rights groups and Turkey's western allies have been alarmed over the scope of the crackdown, saying President Tayyip Erdogan has used the coup as a pretext to quash dissent.
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Under the laudable pretext of serving markets with lower mobile bandwidth, they have mercilessly trimmed away all the excess and banality, bringing a slick, minimalist, lightning-fast messenger into existence.
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In September, on the pretext that they were "updating" their records, Officer Rank and First Name wanted to know whom I worked for and if I had any trips planned.
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"While the embargo remains in place, the Obama administration's policy of engagement has changed the equation, depriving the Cuban government of its main pretext for repressing dissent on the island."
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The point of the questioning and the pretext for the pair's detention remain unknown, but Bruguera will not be permitted to deliver the donated goods to hurricane victims in Baracoa.
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Already, there are concerning signs of conflict to come, and the Trump administration's early missteps on the South China Sea conflict could give Beijing the pretext to manufacture a crisis.
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The demonstrations kicked off to protest against a revision to the electoral code, which critics said was a pretext to delay the presidential vote and extend Kabila's tenure in power.
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But lower courts in Maryland and Hawaii blocked the order, saying it was a pretext for targeting Muslims and violated the U.S. Constitution's prohibition on favoring one religion over another.
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Human rights groups and some Western allies have voiced concern at the scope of the purges, fearing President Tayyip Erdogan is using the coup as a pretext to curtail dissent.
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Local leaders put much of the blame on Kabila, whose government they accuse of collaborating with warring militias to further destabilize the region and create a pretext for election delays.
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The Damascus government welcomes the SDF withdrawal which removes "the main pretext for flagrant Turkish aggression on (Syrian) territory", Syrian state news agency SANA said, citing a foreign ministry source.
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The two main rebel factions in eastern Ghouta, which signed the deals with Russia last summer, accuse Damascus and Moscow of using the jihadist presence as a pretext for attacks.
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"In some places, because of the failures of the security forces, competition over resources is used as a pretext to kill and maim along ethnic or religious lines," Ojigho said.
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The occasion, or pretext, for Mrs Lam trying to rush the law through with minimal debate was the murder in Taiwan of Poon Hiu-wing, a woman from Hong Kong.
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After the countless women who have come forward to tell their stories of sexual harassment and assault, the "hotel room under the pretext of official business" setup is sickeningly familiar.
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Politicians and scholars have drafted moderate compromise proposals, including a one-off arrangement to send to Taiwan a murder suspect whose case is the ostensible pretext for amending extradition laws.
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"Qatar has an Islamic identity and we must prevent threats or abuse to that under any pretext," said Ahmed al-Sowaidi, a 43-year-old secondary school teacher in Doha.
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One danger is that debate over how to handle such a sensitive subject, which could be therapeutic, will instead be a pretext for uninterested governments to abandon the project altogether.
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After the Nullification Crisis, he noted that the tariff had been the pretext this time but that eventually slavery would take center stage as the decisive issue facing the country.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades accused rival Turkish Cypriots on Wednesday of seeking a pretext to stall peace talks to avoid an overlap with Turkey's constitutional referendum next month.
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"A shoddy investigation could be a pretext for imposing new laws making it harder for people, especially people likely to vote for Democrats, to register and vote," Hasen told me.
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Labour leaders on Thursday accused Diess of betraying workers and trying to use the scandal as a pretext for job cuts, marking a new level of hostility between both sides.
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Under the pretext of freedom of speech and the right to public expression of views -- values which mean nothing to them -- preachers of hatred are once again poisoning people's minds.
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Throughout the 1960s, police take the regulation against "disorderly" establishments to mean "venues frequented by gay people," and use the legislation as a pretext for harassing LGBTQ bars and clubs.
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The eviction from office of the hapless president, Dilma Rousseff, by a compromised congress on a flimsy pretext, though perfectly legal, was not the country's finest democratic hour (see article).
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It strikes me as fairly revelatory that the question of who was involved in laying the pretext for firing Comey is now a matter for the special counsel to examine.
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The abortion restrictions that the court is currently considering, which were passed in 2013 under the pretext of protecting women's health and safety, are really nothing more than unnecessary obstacles.
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The Reagan administration, with the pretext of a renewed Cold War, tried to undermine congressional limits on aid to the Contras by using funds from secret arms sales to Iran.
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Such a move would give Trump enough of a pretext to oust Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein or special counsel Robert Mueller and bring the Russia investigation to a halt.
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Hours earlier, Putin said there were "clear signs of a provocation prepared in advance" by Kiev "as a pretext to impose martial law in the country" for domestic political ends.
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Washington has said the ceasefire includes agreement that the government will not fly combat missions in an agreed area on the pretext of hunting fighters from the former Nusra Front.
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"Don't cram it down the throats of an American people that has always honored God on the pretext that the Constitution requires it," he said, according to the Times-Picayune.
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The bill would add $1.5 trillion to the debt over a decade, which Democrats said would become a pretext for slashing spending on Medicare, Medicaid and other social support programs.
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Thus, Trump's Jerusalem move could well end up as just another pretext for many Middle Eastern governments to repress their own citizens in the name of stability and fighting terrorism.
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This, critics have said, provided the government with the pretext to crack down further on Kurdish militants, which has been a greater priority for Turkey than fighting the Islamic State.
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" He added that discussions about American adoptions of Russian children was "the true agenda all along and that the claims of potentially helpful information were a pretext for the meeting.
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Some experts told CNN that Russia could use this move as a pretext to take further action in Ukraine, after its invasion and annexation of the Crimea region in 2014.
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"We will not allow the security of our city to be ruined, or us and our people be cursed at, on pretext of the tearing of a photo," he wrote.
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Turkey has also continued to crack down on the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which Ankara regards as a terrorist organization, under the pretext of fighting President Bashar al-Assad of Syria.
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Rep. Devin Nunes is the author of a newly declassified document falsely insinuating the FBI misused US surveillance law to go after President Trump under the pretext of investigating Russia.
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Esha Bhandari, staff attorney with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, said the agencies were "using the pretext of the border to make an end run around" the Constitution.
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Solicitation is a separate crime under canon law and refers to when a priest uses the pretext of the sacrament of confession to commit an immoral act with a penitent.
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What better pretext could they use than to claim that the poverty problem no longer exists and therefore the poor can be left to their own devices to help themselves?
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Russia accused the United States of rushing to judgment on who was responsible and initially asserted that the sarin attack had been fabricated as a pretext to vilify Mr. Assad.
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The tribal Germanic idea of Heimat, or homeland, for instance, represented a bulwark against the ills of modernity before the Nazis notoriously used it as a pretext for ethnic cleansing.
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The weeklong maneuvers have caused alarm in neighboring countries, with Poland and Ukraine warning they could be a pretext for an invasion, and Lithuania announcing plans to fence its border.
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When Portugal decriminalized, UN member states were just years removed from a 1998 special session of the General Assembly that convened under the fanciful pretext of eliminating drug use worldwide.
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Zakharova told reporters at a briefing that no evidence had been presented to prove Russia's blame, and that the pretext for the new round of sanctions had been made up.
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Former center left agriculture minister Katia Abreu sees a danger of countries that are competitors in the farm sector ganging up on Brazil, using the environmental issue as a pretext.
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To get close to her, Ingrid moves to Los Angeles, visits a restaurant that Taylor has praised (repeating her order) and abducts Taylor's dog as a pretext for returning it.
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In an extreme situation, a mass riot could become a dangerous excuse for those who seek to undermine the democratic system by using the upsurge of radicalism as its pretext.
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This is a common theme in the anti-vax world, and conspiracy theorist communities more broadly: that every disease outbreak is a pretext to enforce a secret, frequently sinister agenda.
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Then, following his inexorable re-election, Thieu seized the pretext of renewed Communist attacks to crush independent parties and the press, drawing a curtain on the experiment in limited democracy.
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"It became clear to me that this was the true agenda all along and that the claims of potentially helpful information were a pretext for the meeting," Mr. Trump said.
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His pretext for bashing Europe is that leaders in Germany and the Netherlands have barred his proxies from holding campaign rallies among the millions of Turks living in their lands.
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"So in other words what you're saying is they carve out prison for involuntary servitude and you can use prison as a pretext to bring involuntary servitude back," Levin said.
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Jean Veil, a prominent French lawyer hired by the Duchess of Cambridge, said during the trial the article that accompanied the photos was only a pretext for publishing the pictures.
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A few years before the Cuban revolution, Washington overthrew the democratically elected government of Guatemala under the false pretext that it was a beachhead of Soviet communism in the hemisphere.
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That year, Swedish prosecutors sought to arrest and question Mr. Assange on sexual assault accusations, which he said were fabricated as a pretext for handing him to the United States.
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That the crook in question was a quack doctor who abused young women under the pretext of treating them for hysteria might seem unrealistically on theme — but it's completely true.
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"I think he was looking for a pretext and I think the way he was treated with the Assad visit was quite insulting for any foreign minister," Mr. Vaez said.
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The infamous "milícias," in their current form, were established in Rio de Janeiro's favelas in the late 1990s and early 2000s, under the pretext of protecting residents from drug traffickers.
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That is the kind of pretext under which I think we can see even more radical economic policies being put forward if we look at who he's surrounded himself with.
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The on-going crackdown, particularly against journalists, has alarmed rights groups and some of Turkey's Western allies, who fear the government is using the coup as a pretext to quash dissent.
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Mr Macron used this as a pretext to unify Greater Paris, erasing the divisive boundary of the périphérique ring road, and giving the banlieues the symbolic embrace they had long sought.
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Clearly, the Armenian government, under the pretext of rendering humanitarian assistance to those affected by the conflict in Syria, pursues its well-documented policy of the resettlement of Azerbaijan's occupied territories.
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Russia is concerned that Japan is allowing Washington to use its territory as a base for a U.S. military build-up in north Asia under the pretext of countering North Korea.
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And whether or not some of these agents, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, took it upon themselves to try to instigate or set up a pretext for investigating the Trump campaign.
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MOSCOW – About 60 Nigerian men who say they entered Russia on the pretext of being World Cup fans camped outside their country&aposs embassy in Moscow on Friday asking for help.
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Zawahri reprimanded Al-Baghdadi for an extreme interpretation of Islam and the ''bloodletting'' which, he said, gave ``Safavid Iran and its subservient government in Iraq ... a pretext to eradicate the Sunnis.
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According to court documents, he would pay other young women to recruit the girls to come to his home and give him massages — a pretext for sexual assault and statutory rape.
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The regime is isolated, mysterious, paranoid, has a history of stirring up trouble in the region and has always used the threat of war as a pretext for oppressing its people.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday denounced U.S. foreign policy in Venezuela, criticizing U.S. "provocations" and attempts to create what he called a pretext for military intervention.
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BEIJING, May 15 (Reuters) - China's foreign ministry said on Wednesday it hoped the United States would stop using national security as a pretext and create a fair environment for Chinese companies.
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The appeals court upheld the judge's original decision that "found that his prosecution in Singapore was actually pretext to silence his political opinion," Grossman said in an interview with BuzzFeed News.
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Syrian state news agency SANA reported that Assad's government accepted the SDF retreat, saying it gets rid of "the main pretext for flagrant Turkish aggression on (Syrian) territory," according to Reuters.
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The pretext for their outrage was Trump&aposs comment thanking Kim Jong Un, who he said "really was excellent to these three incredible people" -- by which Trump obviously meant releasing them.
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But I am deeply disturbed that lawmakers are using my daughter's genetic condition as a pretext to take healthcare and rights away from women and force them into carrying a pregnancy.
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"Some international forces use this as a pretext to attack the raw material requirements for traditional Chinese medicines, and often require China to forbid their trade," she was quoted as saying.
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If TPS becomes nothing more than a pretext for illegal immigrants to settle, how can the government extend such protection to citizens of countries that may be ravaged by future disasters?
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Lula has denied receiving bribes from government contractors during his two terms in office and says the corruption case against him is a pretext to keep him from returning to power.
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Only months later did it seem to occur to Mr Ross that he would need a pretext for adding the question, so he asked the DoJ to make a formal request.
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On the pretext of recovering the pristine faith of the Prophet, Salafists purged the first generation's traditional customs that second-generation Muslims, and converts raised in the West, found so alienating.
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A federal judge in New York sided with Ross' critics earlier this year, saying he didn't follow the processes laid out in federal law and calling his reasoning a mere pretext.
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At a minimum, Rosenstein would seem to be a crucial fact witness on the obstruction issue: Did Rosenstein write the memo about Comey to give Trump a pretext to fire Comey?
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It says that the reason given for his firing — that he violated the law and FBI media rules by disclosing information related to an investigation into Hillary Clinton — was a pretext.
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The history of epidemiology is also littered with quarantine horror stories, and fears that authorities could use quarantines as a pretext to put LGBTQ people in camps are still relevant today.
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Assad also reassured Putin his complete refusal of any invasion of Syrian land under any pretext, adding that Syria will continue to fight terrorism on Syrian land by all legitimate means.
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He explained he had drafted legislation to revoke the so-called public order laws that Bashir's regime had used as a pretext to harass and detain women who opposed the NCP.
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But the vast central African country's main opposition bloc has denounced the accord as a pretext to allow Kabila to cling to power beyond the end of his mandate in December.
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Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said a U.S. humanitarian aid convoy for Venezuela could provoke clashes and create a pretext for removing President Nicolas Maduro, a staunch Russian ally, by force.
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He refused to participate in the talks that led to last month's power-sharing deal, saying they were a pretext to let Kabila cling to power after his final term expires.
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It's all done under the pretext of preparing for Liverpool's summer tour of the US, or something, but basically it's an excruciating exercise in public humiliation Look at Joe Allen here.
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Turkey's allies, including Germany, fear Erdogan is using the coup attempt as a pretext to curtail dissent and Erdogan's opponents fear the planned constitutional changes will lead to an authoritarian state.
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The scope of the crackdown has worried rights groups and some of Turkey's Western allies, who fear President Tayyip Erdogan is using the coup attempt as a pretext to curtail dissent.
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Trump said Sunday that "claims of potentially helpful information" ended up being a "pretext" for a meeting that ultimately focused on a program that previously allowed Americans to adopt Russian children.
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" Along with questioning the legal aspects of the travel restrictions, the South American country also felt the measure was an effort to "stigmatize our nation under the pretext of fighting terrorism.
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The safety of white women has been used as a pretext for lynching: Emmett Till whistled at a white woman, or at least that's what they said when they murdered him.
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Everyone present at that meeting has now denied that any damaging information was exchanged, and instead claimed the offer was a pretext to discuss the current freeze in Russian-American adoptions.
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The apparent goal of the memo is to undermine Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, which could give Trump a pretext to fire him—and thus imperil Mueller's investigation, which Rosenstein oversees.
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Such a move by the Trump administration could also backfire if Maduro took action to prevent Guaido from being sworn in or used it as a pretext to detain him again.
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Many Turks, often inclined to believe in conspiracy theories, think that the coup was a hoax staged by the government to provide a pretext to crack down on its perceived enemies.
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They have provided the justification for state voter-suppression laws around the country, and they could give the Trump administration a pretext to roll back voting rights on a national scale.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has accused the West of supporting the plotters of the failed coup last month, and used the coup attempt as a pretext for his crackdown.
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"We see this SLBM test as an attempt by the North to use the South Korean-United States military exercise as a pretext to raise tensions," the South Korean military said.
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"A period of lawlessness is underway, and the state of emergency is being used by the government as a pretext to arbitrarily control the judiciary," Mr. Dundar said in a statement.
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Rather, Rousseff's political opponents are using the charges as a pretext: She's extremely unpopular, for reasons totally unrelated to the charges, and her enemies are taking advantage to push her out.
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But it's hard not to feel like synchronized swimming could be better, and more truthful to itself and its intentions, if it shed the sports pretext forced upon it by capitalism.
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"A shoddy investigation could be a pretext for imposing new laws making it harder for people, especially people likely to vote for Democrats, to register and vote," Hasen previously told me.
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The fight had the appearance of a mere factional dispute, but Hossein knew that Nusra was using it as a pretext to abolish the Local Council and install a new dictatorship.
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He said he believed the government had fabricated a link between armed Rohingya and foreign terrorists as a pretext for eventually forcing people in northern Rakhine to live in refugee camps.
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The idea transformed policing in many places, but also drew criticism from those who said that it gave the police a pretext to arrest people for minor reasons, filling up jails.
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WikiLeaks insisted it was not involved in the hack of Mr. Moreno's phones, and that the Ecuadorean government was using the episode as a false pretext to toss out Mr. Assange.
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As New York magazine reported, Charles Kushner's allies viewed the probe as political — maintaining that Christie, an ambitious Republican appointee, was using a pretext to go after a top Democratic donor.
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However, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has alleged the government has separated more than 900 children despite the order, using extremely minor "criminal" histories such as traffic violations as pretext.
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"France has refused to recognize the diplomatic pretext of the building under the false pretence it belongs to the private domain", ambassador Carmelo Nvono Nca, Equatorial Guinea's agent, told the judges.
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Under the pretext that if unions do not give up their hard-won rights jobs will go to Asia, many unions have been stripped to the bone or forced into nonexistence.
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Under Trump's deal, these Palestinian areas will remain isolated with nothing interconnecting them but the proposed tunnels and bridges that the Israeli military has the authority to close under any pretext.
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"Haftar and (his armed groups) only want to control power in Tripoli under the pretext of war on terrorism and militias," he said, urging a "clearer stance" from Paris toward Haftar.
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In 1944, Stalin, using the pretext of perceived collaboration with the Germans, ordered the deportation of the entire population of Chechnya—half a million people—to the distant steppes of Kazakhstan.
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And it states that Trump may have known about the Trump Tower meeting that was set up on the pretext of getting dirt on Hillary Clinton from a hostile foreign power.
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But Democrats alleged that he had been committed to adding the question from early on in the administration and used voting rights as a pretext to justify a blatant political maneuver.
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There is alarm in Europe that the Russian president could use the military exercises as a sort of Trojan horse or pretext for an annexation of Belarus, a former Soviet republic.
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In a meeting with foreign ministers representing Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, Pompeo said Beijing sought to "erase" the Uighur minority under the pretext of fighting terrorism, according to Reuters.
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