But you would have to take care, lest this rule became a pretext for aggression.
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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Their reunion is the pretext for an extraordinarily graceful, good-humored, and subtly heartbreaking reflection on last chances.
The photographs are in some cases merely a pretext for a collage about a wedding or a barbecue.
But it is worth asking whether Mr Petrie had given the junta a justifiable pretext for taking umbrage.
Ohio state officials deny that the ownership litigation is a mere pretext for what is really an environmental case.
It's also a pretext for the filmmaker to cast his own spell.
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.
Is the human population explosion a mere pretext for biological profiteering?
"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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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.
It warns that if the countries in the region do not participate in the conference "this will give the Turks a suitable pretext for undertaking greater co-operation with Washington".
The pretext for this legal cartel is as flimsy as can be: Supposedly it ensures that people in the remotest village have the same "access to cultural material" as city dwellers.
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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Few among the electorate pay attention to debates about policy. (Nor, for that matter, do MPs.) Instead politicians seek emotive issues as a pretext for presenting themselves as stout defenders of their voters, the supposedly offended victims.
Even if, against all odds, the Security Council does throw down the gauntlet to Saddam, he is virtually certain to allow intrusive inspections to resume rather than giving the U.S. a pretext for internationally supported action against him.
Second, even if, against all odds, the Security Council does throw down the gauntlet to Saddam, he is virtually certain to allow intrusive inspections to resume rather than giving the U.S. a pretext for internationally supported action against him.
The reason, according to reporters Michael Isikoff and David Korn: Armitage did not want to give the White House a pretext for placing the blame where it belonged - with the disloyal denizens of the State Department's seventh floor.
Russia's foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, has alleged that the weapons inspectors are being put under pressure to provide evidence that could be used as a pretext for war, or to provoke the Iraqis so much that they get themselves thrown out.
Relations between the central government and Barcelona have long been strained over issues such as devolution, distribution of revenues and local identity, and Montilla did not wish to serve up another pretext for raising tension between Catalonia and the rest of Spain.
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Turkey fears that Iraqi Kurds, who set up an autonomous administration in northern Iraq after the 1991 Gulf war, might use the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime as a pretext for setting up a Kurdish state, thereby encouraging similar sentiments among Turkey's extensive Kurdish population (see map).
The three came under strong criticism from the Bush administration for arguing the White House was "laying the pretext or the path for war" before U.N. weapons inspectors had begun their work.
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