You can say, Give a muffin to a mouse, the prepositional dative.

I used the mistletoe as an excuse to kiss him.

In the meantime, the absence of institutional reform should not be allowed to serve as a pretext for inaction.

But claims of self defense also find less reputable invocations.

Other Twitter users found Putin's speech to be simply a good opportunity to make fun of the Americans

Security must not become a pretext for the suspending and destroying the liberal order.

The Bush administration knew what it was doing when it declared war on terror and used that pretext for invading Iraq.

In just the last month, Russian authorities have used their battle with the rehabilitation of Nazism as a pretext for attacks on three different media outlets.

Seizing the first opportunity she rose and, stepping firmly and lightly, went out to fetch her album.

The most flagrant absence of leadership on display today, in the name of following the apparent majority view of the people, is that of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in Germany.

Rugurika said that under the pretense of working on a story, he arranged for a driver from his radio station to take him close to the Rwandan border.

If so, Israel might use it as a pretext to crush the Palestinians and their newly built institutions.

Only a month ago, Mubarak dismissed demands for constitutional reform as futile.

America s president is not searching for excuses to start a war Assad s chemical weapons are not a fanciful pretext.

But, above all, politicians must stop trying to shore up their diminished credibility with the pretense of economic science.

But experts argue the changes are simply budget cuts by a different name.

And they made us fear our secularism, on the pretext that it would destroy our unity.

Is it that any form of social activities can be intercepted with this excuse?

General Musharraf is the third Pakistani general in fifty years to seize power proclaiming a self anointed reform agenda.

The government uses the threat of terrorist attacks to justify domestic repression of political opponents and the absence of democratic reforms.

We know from a long trail of documents, memoirs, and interviews that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were a pretext.

As the pretext for ignoring the repression of basic freedoms, that conflict has come to be described in powerful national and religious rhetoric throughout Syrian society.

The presiding judge dismissed the petition to investigate the case as an example of torture, saying the claim was unfounded.

Potentially, this could mean that websites like Facebook or some of the Google suite of services could be blocked in Ukraine under the anti piracy pretext .

The new Arab generation s quest for dignity is rooted in a yearning for decent government and civil rights that was long denied under the pretext of conflict with the Zionist crusaders.

The fact that there has never been a major terrorist attack involving nuclear or other radioactive material should not blind us to the severity of the threat.

Most important, it would undermine Iran s efforts to make inroads into the Arab world under the pretext of defending Palestine and Holy Jerusalem.

We know from a long trail of documents, memoirs, and interviews that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were a pretext.

The United States routinely kidnaps innocent people on the pretence that they are terrorist suspects, and tortures them in secret prisons.

The seizure of the Paracel Islands from Vietnam in 1974 by Chinese forces was another example of offense as defense.

So far, the West has rejected everything, on the pretext that any uranium enrichment would indicate a military program.

He has long insisted on the creation of a no fly buffer zone on the Syrian side of the border, under the pretext that it would help to address the humanitarian crisis that the civil war has engendered.

Moualem, who also serves as deputy prime minister, said the foreign forces were on Syrian soil illegally, under the pretext of fighting terrorism, and will be dealt with accordingly.

Government crises were merely an opportunity to reshuffle key cabinet positions or change the party faction of the prime minister.

What would be said if the British government had bombed Belfast, or if the Spanish government bombed Bilbao, on the pretext of quelling the IRA or the ETA?

The assassination of the heir of the Austro Hungarian Empire at Sarajevo in July 1914 was not the cause of World War I, but its pretext.

In response, thousands of people in Paniai have been arrested and arbitrarily detained by the military in recent years, under the guise of safeguarding national sovereignty.

The pretext for these charges is participation in a mob about to perform a criminal act , the act being damaging cultural heritage objects.

Two other destabilizing developments emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century a strong incentive to use debt to prop up demand, and a shift toward financing public debt through private institutions at market prices, under the pretext of fighting inflation.

Today, too, governments may be tempted to protect newspapers and public TV on the pretext of saving democracy as we know it.

Indeed, nbsp eurozone countries should not relax their reform efforts on the assumption that ECB bond purchases will solve their problems.

In August 2014, Apple also began storing some Chinese users' personal data on servers in mainland China, under the pretext of improving the speed and reliability of its iCloud service for users in China.

It attained a mandate that from it, under the pretext of protecting populations in danger, which allowed the escape of its allies pursued by the Rwandan Patriotic Front.

Similarly, my office defended the liberal weekly newspaper Novoe Vremya (New Times), which was being pressured by Moscow's city government on the pretext of a commercial dispute about a lease.

The status quo is excused by Arab regimes in the name of cultural specificity the same pretext used by Western governments to justify their value free policies toward these regimes.