Some officials are using this sense of crisis as a pretext for attacking opponents at home.
But you would have to take care, lest this rule became a pretext for aggression.
Like the Castros and other communist dictators, he used economic redistribution as a pretext for authoritarianism.
It gave the Indian and Pakistan governments a pretext for harassing journalists critical of state policy.
Perhaps it really did fear that the aid effort might provide a pretext for invasion.
That leads some to suspect that his ultimate objective is to create a pretext for protectionism.
If they reach a solution, that takes away the immediate pretext for this violence.
The border, according to this theory, was just a pretext for fighting over more serious issues.
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But local environmental concerns were merely the public pretext for a decision that is much more troubling.
But that should not be a pretext for giving the government excessive power over innocuous private communications.
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Their reunion is the pretext for an extraordinarily graceful, good-humored, and subtly heartbreaking reflection on last chances.
The West, insists Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, is exaggerating the humanitarian crisis to find a pretext for invasion.
The photographs are in some cases merely a pretext for a collage about a wedding or a barbecue.
That in turn serves as a pretext for continued activity by right-wing paramilitaries, also financed by drug money.
But it is worth asking whether Mr Petrie had given the junta a justifiable pretext for taking umbrage.
Was it an oversight, or did the junta aim to use the incidents as a pretext for clamping down?
Ohio state officials deny that the ownership litigation is a mere pretext for what is really an environmental case.
Then again, the U.S. investigation may have simply handed Beijing a pretext for doing something it planned all along.
He sees a Palestinian state as progress because it is a state, and he wants a pretext for it.
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SCIRI's opponents say this is just a pretext for stuffing the security forces with its own militia, the Iranian-trained Badr brigade.
But regardless of the facts, the propaganda of both sides seems to be creating a possible pretext for the resumption of war.
It's also a pretext for the filmmaker to cast his own spell.
Racial issues have provided the pretext for massive influxes of federal intervention.
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Some had hoped the Cambodian coup might provide a pretext for delaying expansion for all three applicants, thereby keeping the Myanmar junta waiting.
Since the apparent obstruction was Starr's pretext for investigating the entire affair, the Clintonites say, the basis for the probe was fundamentally illegitimate.
However foolish Mr Saakashvili was to give Russia a pretext for invasion, he should stay in office until Georgians themselves throw him out.
As always, Mr Castro uses a more aggressive stance from the United States to rally Cuban nationalism and as a pretext for repression.
This would deflect attention away from the urgent policy problems confronting Europe and serve as a pretext for a period of intense naval-gazing.
The novel draws on oral lore and parables in its sly critique of those who use traditional beliefs as a pretext for violence.
And a U.S. decision to postpone a long-range missile test this month could provide a pretext for the North to declare a symbolic victory.
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