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He slapped tariffs on imported steel and aluminum under the pretext of “national security,” in violation of the spirit, if not the letter, of international trade law under the WTO.
Terrified by the obvious threat the CNRP posed to his rule, Hun Sen sought a pretext to crush us.
Releasing Kem Sokha with a record marred by politically motivated lies that provide a pretext for maintaining the ban on the CNRP would not only fail to advance democracy; it would accelerate Cambodia’s descent into authoritarianism.
Concepts like religious traditionalism, law and order, and national sovereignty provide a useful pretext for discriminatory policies, like Trump’s (legally dubious) immigration crackdown.
In the end, May’s successor will probably come back with some variant of her deal, which will either be approved by Parliament or provide a pretext for a second referendum to decide whether Britain still wants to leave the EU.
The reason is obvious: a Hamas-led Islamic-fundamentalist state offers Israel the ultimate pretext to shun peace negotiations.
He has been using the COVID-19 crisis as a pretext for conducting China-style digital surveillance and sharply limiting the freedom to protest.
The regime has increasingly used the perceived US threat as a pretext to repress its own people, and to foment chaos across the region.
On the pretext of commercial confidentiality, the official bodies that are currently selling access to public data are making it harder for themselves to get a good deal.
And all governments should be held accountable when pandemic-related restrictions are used as a pretext to silence journalists.
The process is reminiscent of Vietnam, where a 1973 agreement between the US and North Vietnam provided a pretext for US withdrawal from the South but not a basis for peace.
But they have created a pretext for Trump to deploy the fascist playbook even more aggressively than he has before.
To be sure, when the US wants a legal pretext for its actions, it will turn to multilateral bodies such as the United Nations Security Council.
Levin tried to think of some pretext for beginning a conversation with him.
Only Mouquette hastened, and went out behind him on the pretext that they were both going back to Montsou.
Then they rambled from bar to bar, without any pretext, simply saying that they were having a stroll.
The Company, under the pretext of the derangement caused by payment, had on this day once more suspended output in all their pits.
The Company, suffering from the crisis, had been forced to reduce their expenses if they were not to succumb, and it was naturally the workers who would have to tighten their bellies; under some pretext or another the Company would nibble at their wages.
But this was only an amiable pretext; this party was an invention of Madame Hennebeau's to hasten the marriage of Cécile and Paul.
The strike at the Voreux troubled her while she was working at Jean-Bart, and she had only been able to think of this way of helping her parents a little, under the pretext of caring for the little ones.
While awaiting something better he would like to be Pluchart, leaving manual work in order to work only at politics, but alone, in a clean room, under the pretext that brain labour absorbs the entire life and needs quiet.
A pretext was made of his attitude in danger, the cowardice of a captain abandoning his men.
At last she thought of a pretext; she praised Henri and Lénore, who were so good, so gentle, and so intelligent, answering like angels the questions that they were asked.
Then, as he moved away, under the pretext of giving an order, he said at last:"Eh!Maheude?
But she felt such weariness of spirit that she could not even invent a pretext for leaving the table.
One evening, for example, she was angry with the servant, who had asked to go out, and stammered as she tried to find some pretext.
Emma, on the pretext of giving orders, disappeared.
When she was seized with the desire to see Leon, she set out upon any pretext; and as he was not expecting her on that day, she went to fetch him at his office.
She yielded to his words, still more to his voice and the sight of him, so that, she pretended to believe, or perhaps believed; in the pretext he gave for their rupture; this was a secret on which depended the honour, the very life of a third person.
On the pretext of making amends for the humiliation which she had unintentionally caused him, she allowed herself to pay him the most delicate attentions.
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