Word: pretexting
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...Germany and its beaten vassals. It ought not to be difficult for people who have suffered so much to realize that the lustful spirit now seemingly exorcized from Germany, prevails everywhere more or less and that humanity is to gain nothing lasting by all its sacrifices if, on any pretext, greed, ambition, and injustice are again to be enthroned in other places...
...know until such time as the message is delivered to Congress-was that it was brief as such messages go, presenting a few proposals, but not going into detailed argument. This was only political wisdom. There are a whole host of Presidential aspirants ready to seize upon any pretext in the message as an excuse for attacks on the Administration's policy and for advancing their respective candidacies. The less argumentative and the more general the message is, the less ground these gentlemen will have to stand on, and the more advantage will accrue to Mr. Coolidge...
Offer England not allegiance but peace based on the sovereignty and integrity of the Irish nation that " will remove from her any pretext for making war on Ireland...
...That Quezon is using this case as a pretext for another drive for Philippine independence...
...Unwilling to alter his policy and at the same time pressed by Poincare, French Premier, there was nothing for M. Theunis to do to avoid a rupture either with Britain and Italy on the one hand and France on the other, except resign. He therefore seized upon a domestic pretext for his action...