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  • Pretexts for stopping an individual for being a suspected illegal immigrant are boundless.

    Emma Ruby-Sachs: Legal Challenge to Arizona's Law Explained 2010

  • Savitri Era: Pretexts for Marx, goads for Gandhi skip to main

    Pretexts for Marx, goads for Gandhi Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Provocations as Pretexts for Imperial War: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Wars in an imperialist democracy cannot simply be dictated by executive fiat, they require the consent of highly motivated masses who will make the human and material sacrifices.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Provocations as Pretexts for Imperial War: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 2008

  • Pretexts for invading and occupying Iraq went from:

    Reviewing Zionism, Militarism, and the Decline of US Power 2008

  • The Clash of Civilizations; Mother of All Pretexts yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'The Clash of Civilizations; Mother of All Pretexts'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: When I hear mention of the "Clash of Civilizations" I don\'t know whether to laugh or to cry.

    The Clash of Civilizations; Mother of All Pretexts 2007

  • Grotius: Pretexts of that kind cannot always be allowed, as they may often be used as the cover of ambitious designs.

    What Would Grotius Do? The Founder of International Law Speaks Out on Iraq 2003

  • Pretexts were sought after and eagerly seized upon, in order to increase the rigours of persecution; and new acts passed, such as the Conventicle Act, which declared it penal to hold meetings for worship, even in barns and highways, and offered high rewards to informers, — and whose deliberate intention was, either to compel the sufferers to conformity, or to goad them on to violence and crime.

    Life of Dr Owen 1965

  • Pretexts, such as it was difficult to find a flaw in, were never wanting on which to ground a fresh absorption of territory.

    Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute Theo. F. Rodenbough

  • Pretexts were readily found and hostile inroads constantly engineered against the Basuto for purposes of aggression, and the friendliness of the

    Chapter VIII Solomon Tshekisho 1916

  • Pretexts may not be wanting to intervene in the frequent internecine wars of the South American republics, as England has intervened in Egypt and Austria in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

    The New Germany 1910

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