Sentences with 'pretext'
Example sentences and phrases with the word pretext and other words derived from it.
• « However, the idea of invasion created an excuse for Macedonian and Greek imperialism and aggression under the cultural pretext of revenge. »
• « Revolts in 150 and 146 against Roman power served as the final pretext for Roman subjugation of Greece. »
• « Two assassination attempts on the Kaiser, though carried out by men who had nothing to do with socialism, gave Bismarck the pretext, and the Reichstag immediately passed laws amounting to a ban on the Social Democratic Party of Germany itself. »