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The People’s Republic of China should not use this transit as a pretext to step up any aggressive activity around the Taiwan Strait. The United States and China have differences when United States comes to Taiwan, but we have managed those differences for more than 40 years. – John Kirby	Found on CNN 1 year ago
National security has often been used as a pretext specifically against Asian-Americans. – John Yang	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Apparently he believes I was very effective in exposing his misconduct, Donald Trump’s misconduct. And that’s what they’re trying to stop, so, I think that he benefits from having these smears repeated. And that’s part of what he gains from it. But this is a pretext, and nothing more. – Adam Schiff	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Iconsider initiatives in certain regions to cancel New Year's holiday events for children under the pretext of supporting the armed forces to be premature and unnecessary. – Getty Images	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
On a phony pretext from a highly political magistrate who they hand-picked late in the evening just days before the break-in and trampled upon my rights and civil liberties as if our country that we love so much were a third world nation, we’re like a third world nation. – Former President Trump	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Matthew Araiza immediately changed his tone, saying,' This is Matt Araiza. I don't remember anything that happened that night,' at which time he terminated the pretext call by hanging up on Doe, the filing of the civil suit is clearly an attempt to put pressure on the DA to file a case. – Marc Carlos	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They're claiming The White House's The White House, i got The White House. But The White House's also a pretext to try to up the ante in tensions and to actually try to set a new status quo to get to a new normal where they think they can keep things at. – John Kirby	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There is no reason for Beijing to turn a potential visit, consistent with long standing United States policy, into some sort of crisis or conflict, or use it as a pretext to increase aggressive military activity in or around the Taiwan Strait. – United States	Found on CNN 1 year ago
First of all, it'd be a cash cow for them if they had Disney, but I'm worried that they would use that as a pretext to raise taxes on people when that's what they would want to do anyways and then try to blame Reedy Creek, so we're not going to give them that opportunity. – Ron DeSantis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think if a chemical or biological weapon was used, you would see a significant reaction from not only the United States, but also the global community, i think what we've seen from the Russians in the past is they're raising issues and creating a pretext so that if they did something in the battle space, they could blame it on somebody else, either Ukrainians or us, NATO. – Lloyd Austin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
President Putin has sought authorization from the Russian parliament to use military force outside of Russian territory, and this set the stage for further pretext of further provocations by Russia to try to justify further military action, none of us, none of us, should be fooled. None of us will be fooled. There is no justification. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
First Russia plans to manufacture a pretext for its attack – this could be a violent event that Russia will bring on Ukraine or an outrageous accusation that Russia will level against the Ukrainian government. – Antony Blinken	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Unfortunately, the Biden DOJ has used this lawsuit as a pretext for them to pull the plug on our successful and innovative federal-state crime-fighting partnership, the Safer Streets Initiative, since I launched the Safer Streets Initiative in 2019, we’ve filed over 650 charges against nearly 390 defendants with a conviction rate of roughly 98%. My Office has fought to continue the initiative, but this initiative has been suspended solely because of the Biden Administration’s actions. – Eric Schmitt	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We do have information that the Russians are likely to want to fabricate a pretext for an invasion, which, again, is right out of their playbook. – John Kirby	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been giving out hundreds of thousands of Russian passports to pro-Russian residents of the Donbas -- now Russian President Vladimir Putin has an even further pretext to go in and say they need to be protected. – Vladimir Putin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is not some modest bill about ballot access. It is a sprawling takeover of our whole political system, it was never even intended to attract bipartisan support. This partisan Frankenstein bill that House Democrats slapped together was intended to do just one thing and one thing only: give the Senate Democratic leader a pretext – a pretext to break the Senate. – Mitch McConnell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Our intelligence community has developed information, which has now been downgraded, that Russia is laying the groundwork to have the option of fabricating the pretext for an invasion, we saw this playbook in 2014. They are preparing this playbook again and we will have, the administration will have, further details on what we see as this potential laying of the pretext to share with the press over the course of the next 24 hours. – Jake Sullivan	Found on CNN 2 years ago
What the U.S. did proves that the so-called democracy summit is just a pretext and tool for it to pursue geopolitical goals, suppress other countries, divide the world, serve its own interest and maintain its hegemony in the world. – Zhao Lijian	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Religious liberty is the chief cornerstone of the American system of government, and provisions for its security are embedded in the written charter and interwoven in the moral fabric of its laws. Anything that tends to invade a right so essential and sacred must be carefully guarded against, and I am satisfied that my countrymen, ever mindful of the suffering and sacrifices necessary to obtain it, will never consent to its impairment for any reason or under any pretext whatsoever. – Thomas F. Bayard	added by Normando 2 years ago
SB 1 is an appalling, anti-democracy effort by Texas Republicans to construct barriers to voting for people they believe will not support them, what makes this bill and Texas Republicans are pushing across the country even more un-American is Texas Republicans are using the' Big Lie' about the 2020 election as a pretext to support them. The reality is that these bills have nothing to do with election integrity or security, but rather are discriminatory measures making it harder for all people to vote. These bills will have a disproportionate impact on communities of color. – Eric Holder	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's no secret that Disney is releasing films like Black Widow directly onto Disney + to increase subscribers and thereby boost the company's stock price — and that it's hiding behind Covid-19 as a pretext to do so, but ignoring the contracts of the artists responsible for the success of its films in furtherance of this short-sighted strategy violates their rights and we look forward to proving as much in court. – John Berlinski	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we have seen since the Jim Crow era. This is Jim Crow in new clothes, since the January election, some 250 voter suppression bills have been introduced by state legislatures all across the country – from Georgia to Arizona, from New Hampshire to Florida – [all] using the Big Lie of voter fraud as a pretext for voter suppression. – Raphael Warnock	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We all understand perfectly that there is no extremism in (our) work... The extremism allegation is being used purely as a pretext for political repression. – Leonid Volkov	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The time has come for the European Union to take action. Silence and inaction under whatever pretext will only embolden the mullahs’ regime to continue its crimes and terrorism. – Maryam Rajavi	Found on FOX News 3 years ago

The People’s Republic of China should not use this transit as a pretext to step up any aggressive activity around the Taiwan Strait. The United States and China have differences when United States comes to Taiwan, but we have managed those differences for more than 40 years.

– John Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

National security has often been used as a pretext specifically against Asian-Americans.

– John Yang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Apparently he believes I was very effective in exposing his misconduct, Donald Trump’s misconduct. And that’s what they’re trying to stop, so, I think that he benefits from having these smears repeated. And that’s part of what he gains from it. But this is a pretext, and nothing more.

– Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Iconsider initiatives in certain regions to cancel New Year's holiday events for children under the pretext of supporting the armed forces to be premature and unnecessary.

– Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

On a phony pretext from a highly political magistrate who they hand-picked late in the evening just days before the break-in and trampled upon my rights and civil liberties as if our country that we love so much were a third world nation, we’re like a third world nation.

– Former President Trump

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Matthew Araiza immediately changed his tone, saying,' This is Matt Araiza. I don't remember anything that happened that night,' at which time he terminated the pretext call by hanging up on Doe, the filing of the civil suit is clearly an attempt to put pressure on the DA to file a case.

– Marc Carlos

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They're claiming The White House's The White House, i got The White House. But The White House's also a pretext to try to up the ante in tensions and to actually try to set a new status quo to get to a new normal where they think they can keep things at.

– John Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is no reason for Beijing to turn a potential visit, consistent with long standing United States policy, into some sort of crisis or conflict, or use it as a pretext to increase aggressive military activity in or around the Taiwan Strait.

– United States

Found on CNN
1 year ago

First of all, it'd be a cash cow for them if they had Disney, but I'm worried that they would use that as a pretext to raise taxes on people when that's what they would want to do anyways and then try to blame Reedy Creek, so we're not going to give them that opportunity.

– Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think if a chemical or biological weapon was used, you would see a significant reaction from not only the United States, but also the global community, i think what we've seen from the Russians in the past is they're raising issues and creating a pretext so that if they did something in the battle space, they could blame it on somebody else, either Ukrainians or us, NATO.

– Lloyd Austin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

President Putin has sought authorization from the Russian parliament to use military force outside of Russian territory, and this set the stage for further pretext of further provocations by Russia to try to justify further military action, none of us, none of us, should be fooled. None of us will be fooled. There is no justification.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

First Russia plans to manufacture a pretext for its attack – this could be a violent event that Russia will bring on Ukraine or an outrageous accusation that Russia will level against the Ukrainian government.

– Antony Blinken

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Unfortunately, the Biden DOJ has used this lawsuit as a pretext for them to pull the plug on our successful and innovative federal-state crime-fighting partnership, the Safer Streets Initiative, since I launched the Safer Streets Initiative in 2019, we’ve filed over 650 charges against nearly 390 defendants with a conviction rate of roughly 98%. My Office has fought to continue the initiative, but this initiative has been suspended solely because of the Biden Administration’s actions.

– Eric Schmitt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We do have information that the Russians are likely to want to fabricate a pretext for an invasion, which, again, is right out of their playbook.

– John Kirby

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been giving out hundreds of thousands of Russian passports to pro-Russian residents of the Donbas -- now Russian President Vladimir Putin has an even further pretext to go in and say they need to be protected.

– Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is not some modest bill about ballot access. It is a sprawling takeover of our whole political system, it was never even intended to attract bipartisan support. This partisan Frankenstein bill that House Democrats slapped together was intended to do just one thing and one thing only: give the Senate Democratic leader a pretext – a pretext to break the Senate.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our intelligence community has developed information, which has now been downgraded, that Russia is laying the groundwork to have the option of fabricating the pretext for an invasion, we saw this playbook in 2014. They are preparing this playbook again and we will have, the administration will have, further details on what we see as this potential laying of the pretext to share with the press over the course of the next 24 hours.

– Jake Sullivan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What the U.S. did proves that the so-called democracy summit is just a pretext and tool for it to pursue geopolitical goals, suppress other countries, divide the world, serve its own interest and maintain its hegemony in the world.

– Zhao Lijian

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Religious liberty is the chief cornerstone of the American system of government, and provisions for its security are embedded in the written charter and interwoven in the moral fabric of its laws. Anything that tends to invade a right so essential and sacred must be carefully guarded against, and I am satisfied that my countrymen, ever mindful of the suffering and sacrifices necessary to obtain it, will never consent to its impairment for any reason or under any pretext whatsoever.

– Thomas F. Bayard

added by Normando
2 years ago

SB 1 is an appalling, anti-democracy effort by Texas Republicans to construct barriers to voting for people they believe will not support them, what makes this bill and Texas Republicans are pushing across the country even more un-American is Texas Republicans are using the' Big Lie' about the 2020 election as a pretext to support them. The reality is that these bills have nothing to do with election integrity or security, but rather are discriminatory measures making it harder for all people to vote. These bills will have a disproportionate impact on communities of color.

– Eric Holder

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's no secret that Disney is releasing films like Black Widow directly onto Disney + to increase subscribers and thereby boost the company's stock price — and that it's hiding behind Covid-19 as a pretext to do so, but ignoring the contracts of the artists responsible for the success of its films in furtherance of this short-sighted strategy violates their rights and we look forward to proving as much in court.

– John Berlinski

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we have seen since the Jim Crow era. This is Jim Crow in new clothes, since the January election, some 250 voter suppression bills have been introduced by state legislatures all across the country – from Georgia to Arizona, from New Hampshire to Florida – [all] using the Big Lie of voter fraud as a pretext for voter suppression.

– Raphael Warnock

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We all understand perfectly that there is no extremism in (our) work... The extremism allegation is being used purely as a pretext for political repression.

– Leonid Volkov

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The time has come for the European Union to take action. Silence and inaction under whatever pretext will only embolden the mullahs’ regime to continue its crimes and terrorism.

– Maryam Rajavi

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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