Word: pretexts
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...Washington are “Red Alerts” and “Freedom Fries,” while coming out of us is grim humor and heavy irony. Meanwhile our freedom endures a precipitous rise in CIA funding and the renewed persecution of left-wing groups. A thin pretext for attacking a maligned third-world country is in its refining stages and may be ready for use by the end of the month...
Sadly, the newfound hope was only another cruel pretext for familiar heartbreak. With the Crimson trailing by one with mere seconds left, Merchant passed the ball to teammate, roommate and close friend Prasse-Freeman and—well, the rest is history...
...Saddam's conduct until now suggests that he is well aware that his best weapons against the U.S. military are political and diplomatic. Every time he has been presented with an "or-else" ultimatum in this particular crisis, Saddam has capitulated so as to avoid giving the U.S. a pretext to launch an attack. Despite his defiant tone on CBS, reports out of Baghdad this week quoted Iraqi officials as hinting that Saddam may be planning to sacrifice the al-Samoud 2 to slow President Bush's march...
...accuse without evidence? I left prison at that moment. I went back six months later to a moment of critical assessment and grudging admission that yes, it could have been Muslims who did it and that they shouldn't have. It hurt Islam, it has given the West a pretext to smear the image of Islam and Muslims." The Radical islamists Ibrahim got to know in prison defy easy classification. "Many of them are going through a serious revision of their thoughts," he reports. "Some have become committed pacifists, disavowing violence, regretful of what they did. Some have evolved into...
...belief of many Slovak doctors that repeat deliveries via caesarean section can be dangerous - hence the recommended sterilization after two or three such deliveries. Indeed, the CRR finds that medical practitioners "appeared to unnecessarily and irresponsibly perform C-sections on Romany women at least in part as a pretext for sterilizing them." The CRR also reports "systematic and glaring racial discrimination" in maternity wards and gynecology departments, Roma women often being prohibited from using even the same toilets and dining facilities as other patients. "It's a racist policy and I think it is conducted with the tacit support...