Something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason.
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Examples for "pretext"
Examples for "pretext"
1Opposition groups said the abrupt closure was a pretext to prevent protests.
2In his province, Mirabeau was the cause or pretext for the troubles.
3He would go to South Africa on the pretext of a conference.
4Under the pretext of improving the law it can be easily emasculated.
5He stopped the Countess to look at the pretext of this excursion.
1Google also acted as the stalking-horse bid for Nortel Networks' wireless patents.
2It filed for bankruptcy last month, with Sycamore Partners as a stalking-horse bidder.
3There may have been other causes of offence; the horse was the official stalking-horse.
4The stalking-horse agreement opens the door for other interested parties to make a bid.
5They had made use of the doctrines as a stalking-horse.
6God is too often a convenient stalking-horse for human selfishness.
7The Ministry had their candidate, a stalking-horse, useful only to receive the purely Ministerial votes.
8First, take the North great battle or, rather, stalking-horse-Abolition
9Borders would soon select a stalking-horse bidder as part of the bidding procedure, the paper said.
10She wants to know more about this stalking-horse.
11Only, in that case, you would have no stalking-horse to take the estate over to Dr.
12Also you that make even religion your stalking-horse to get the world, you fear not God.
13It would also allow stalking-horse bidders to use pre-approval as leverage to negotiate unfair provisions, EchoStar said.
14Najafi had been competing with fellow private equity firm Gores Group to serve as Borders' stalking-horse bidder.
15I fear many people make the Lord Jesus Christ a stalking-horse on which to secure their ends.
16Better never profess, than to make profession a stalking-horse to sin, Deceit, to the Devil, and Hell.
Translations for stalking-horse