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Their campaign has two main purposes, it said: first, to find a pretext for the West to distance itself from Boris Yeltsin, whom it no longer needs as a bulwark against communism; and second, to dump Gore as a contender for the presidency.
In Time , Richard Schickel calls the genre structure a pretext for a "surreal essay" on the Gulf War, and he might be right.
The island’s tranquility lasted until 1287, when Alfonso III of Aragón, smarting over a series of humiliations at the hands of his nobles, found a pretext for invasion.
In London, the Times ran a hard-line editorial saying that "it will not be enough this time for fire-power to be marshalled and then abandoned on some diplomatic pretext.
The Guelf-Ghibelline conflict became a pretext for settling family feuds (such as the one typified in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet) or communal rivalries, from which Genoa and Florence emerged stronger than ever.