Sentences with 'pretexts'
Example sentences and phrases with the word pretexts and other words derived from it.
• « In fact, for more than a century, most Germanic "kings" were, officially, Roman officials recognised by treaty from the legal and diplomatic perspective of Constantinople. That said, the "Roman" emperors of Constantinople had many legal pretexts to consider those kings as usurpers as well, since the recognition treaties were often full of loopholes. »
• « Louis XI was called "The Spider" for his ability to entrap weak nobles and seize their lands under various legal pretexts. »