Pretext
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When al-Qaeda struck the US on September 11, 2001, the attack was used as a
pretext
by the security establishment to launch its long-desired war to topple Saddam.
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The first time I heard about this Christian Coptic community was in 2009 when the Egyptian authorities under the regime of Hosni Mubarak decided to slaughter 300,000 pigs using the
pretext
of H1N1 virus.
You know, the art project was just a
pretext
for this amazing human experience.
And a critically important problem to me was that for more than a century, the anti-pornography position had been used as a
pretext
for discriminating against gays and lesbians or people who have kinks or have fetishes.
With the
pretext
of chasing Henry, Mr. Eko brings John with him and they find a second hatch called "Pearl" underground the question mark symbol marked on the field, where a video explains that the other hatch is a psychological experiment and people behavior pressing the buttons of the computer every 108 minutes are actually subjects.
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