Word: pretexting
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...Egypt is, for the British Empire, a measure of self defense." Five years' residence in Cairo, and conversations with British officials in many Departments prove to me that you credit them with a candor which they are far from claiming themselves. The Suez Canal is a mere pretext, and is so admitted by British officials. Nothing would be easier than to fortify a zone on either side of the canal, instead of garrisoning the whole Nile Valley for two thousand miles. No other Power could possibly interfere. With its Mediterranean Base at Malta, the British Navy always...
...treaty negotiations, thanks to Secretary Kellogg's inaction, were used as a pretext by the pacifist lobby in Washington, last winter, to prevent action on the Cruiser bill...
...last week. He wrote: "The modernity of the painter today reveals itself just as much in what he paints as the way he paints it. That change can be summarized by saying, that formerly the subject of a picture was a text whereas today it has become a pretext "The reason that sustained support of modern art is so difficult to maintain, is that even our most indubitably gifted moderns have so little passionate conviction about the things that they want to paint, or the necessity for painting them. "The vitality of any art, even in its most formal...
...Under pretext of conducting a group of U. S. clergymen through the University, last week, strapping Missionary Zwemer began to distribute Presbyterian tracts. Soon some hundreds of the students became excited by this apparently inflammatory literature. One unshakably Moslem student sought to tear the last of the tracts from Dr. Zwemer's potent fist, but other students barkened for a time to his loud, impressive words...
After that conference, the Journal of Commerce charged last week, "The little New York group that dominates the Federal Reserve System came to Chicago and tried to induce the directors here [of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank] to cut the [re-discount] rate and afford pretext to New York. The request was flatly and somewhat indignantly refused. borrowed at a low rate, can be reloaned at a slightly higher rate...