But you would have to take care, lest this rule became a pretext for aggression.
Jeremy Baratta, a 32-year-old Army veteran, called the health concerns that authorities cited a pretext.
The far right has used local problems as a pretext to intimidate the Roma community.
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.
The border, according to this theory, was just a pretext for fighting over more serious issues.
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The photographs are in some cases merely a pretext for a collage about a wedding or a barbecue.
But that smacks of a pretext: despite alarmist headlines, for now the economy remains in relatively good shape.
Mired in debt, the city sold the building to an investor who found a pretext to terminate the leases.
Wrobel denies that charge and claims it was a pretext to deny him a promised equity stake and bonus.
The more information that comes out, the more it looks like federal agents used cyberstalking as a pretext to launch their probe.
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It's also a pretext for the filmmaker to cast his own spell.
Many think the non-existent weapons of mass destruction were a pretext, too.
This would deflect attention away from the urgent policy problems confronting Europe and serve as a pretext for a period of intense naval-gazing.
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.
But this should not be a pretext for restricting 3D-printing technology.
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Critics say mandatory intervention can only work if backed by a rigorous prevention policy and could easily be a pretext for cleaning up the streets.
"There is no need for this to become a pretext for drama or anger, " she said, adding that she had informed the Americans about the development.
Many conservatives reacted by arguing that comparative effectiveness research is bad, because it is a pretext for government interference in clinical practice, and for price controls.
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But instead I met indifference, denial, resistance, and even an accusation: that I was using the UVa study as a pretext to abandon the poor.
As The Economist went to press, the most likely outcome seemed to be that questions about the Bank's procedures could be used as a pretext for a delay.
"You know very well this is a pretext of a political war between President Basescu and me, a war each of us leads with their own weapons, " he said.
Fired for cause, he claims his poor performance evaluation was a pretext and that his real crime was appearing in the Bravo reality show The Real Housewives of New York.
So long as the state can come forward with some neutral, non-discriminatory reason for the law, even if that's a pretext, it looks like the law will generally be upheld.
In the long run, he must also make political space in Rwanda for the Hutu rebel forces who maraud through eastern Congo and give General Nkunda a pretext for his depredations.
Antagonists, however, always will find a pretext for fighting.
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Burman, a Treasury tax official during the Clinton administration, cautioned the Obama administration against using the stimulus as a pretext to make either middle-class tax cuts or its proposed new refundable tax credits permanent.
Later, France found a pretext to invade Tunisia.
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The President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, was quick to warn Italians not to use the "next elections as a pretext to put in doubt the necessity of the measures approved until now".
Even though it is pretty clear that the shooter was not a Tea Party fanatic, it is becoming clear that some commentators are using the shooting as a pretext to further marginalize ideas with which they disagree.
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