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If one measure of a community's success is, as I've been told, its ability to bring like minds together, then I must compliment Celebration, Fla., on at least the one count, of giving us a pretext to correspond.
With help from a dissident member of the royal family, he managed to get out of the country under the pretext of attending an Islamic gathering in Pakistan in April 1991.
Conservative judges, Schultz argues, have used sexual harassment law as a pretext for preserving "women's virtue."
The final step is coming up with a pretext for your decision.
Although Spanish responsibility was never incontrovertibly established, the United States used the sinking as a pretext to declare war.