Created in 2007, the RFS was mandated on the pretext of reducing both carbon emissions and U.S. dependence on foreign oil.

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Kerik withdrew his name on the pretext of having once hired a nanny who may have been an undocumented alien.

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Tens of thousands of able-bodied ultra-Orthodox men defer their conscription year after year on the pretext of devoting their lives to religious study.

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The court heard Seddon hired a BMW on 20 March and drove from his home to Manchester on the pretext of treating his parents to a surprise meal.

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The prosecution case is that Eliza Samudio was lured to a hotel in Rio de Janeiro on the pretext of obtaining a DNA test to prove the footballer was the father of her child.

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At worst, it may be that, as Ms Short claims, he took Britain to war on a false pretext.

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Even so, the secretary of state and her aides face the question whether Mr Netanyahu is also seizing on security as a pretext not to do what he does not want to do: implement the Oslo accords.

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Under the pretext of polling people on their party affiliation, they falsely suggested that a sitting Liberal member in Montreal was planning to retire last year.

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The pretext given was that, since sequestration's potential effects on particular contracts had not been specified, there was insufficient basis to know the extent of the impact on employment and, therefore, the statute would not apply.

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Their reunion is the pretext for an extraordinarily graceful, good-humored, and subtly heartbreaking reflection on last chances.

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