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The pretext used to justify the cartoons, including freedom of the press and freedom of expression, is another example of the double standards prevailing in the West.

Saad Hagras
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When the United States government tries to do things like expediting and making things easier for people, they create a pretext for letting in illegal immigrants.

Debra Burlingame
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The hurricane is being used as a pretext to attack health and environmental standards.

Frank O'donnell
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Freedom of expression has always been a pretext for Westerners ... to insult the beliefs of Muslims.

Farid Mortazavi
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Geopolitical wise, it's just more of the same. People are resigned to the fact that we're going to war. It's just a matter of under what pretext we do it.

Peter Boockvar
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If Mr. Netanyahu is looking for a pretext to stop the negotiations and undermine the process, he will always find one. This attack, which we have condemned, should serve as an incentive to accelerate the negotiations.

Abdel Rahman
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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

Kate Chopin
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National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.

John Taylor
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There's a lot of pretext strikes, I can tell you, ... That's part of what a judge has to do, is find out if that [reason cited by a lawyer] is true.

Henry Wade
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Let them tell us and the world that their concerns are genuine and that they are not using them as a pretext to attack Iraq -- if those concerns are genuine we can find a solution to that.

Tariq Aziz
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He would rob some sex workers who he 'lifted' on the pretext of seeking sex and he sometimes also raped his victims.

David Magara
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If you don't expand the freedom of the citizens, you'll find yourself in a country which quite comfortably, under the pretext of apathy, will not defend democracy.

Jose Rodriguez
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At the end of the day, it is all politics. Everything else is just pretext.

Kayode Fayemi
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They are taking me to the police station. They are no doubt going to lock me up on a spurious pretext like the others.

Anatoly Lebedko
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Marcus Fabius Quintilian
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If this phrase of the ''balance of power'' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

John Bright
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The Western papers printed these sacrilegious cartoons on the pretext of freedom of expression, so let's see if they mean what they say and also print these Holocaust cartoons.

Farid Mortazavi
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This is a tragedy, and they do it with a pretext or without it.

Ephraim Sneh
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