On the pretext of settling labour disputes, they have extorted large sums of money.
Kerik withdrew his name on the pretext of having once hired a nanny who may have been an undocumented alien.
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Does it mean that the Arab world prefers illegal takeover of governments on the pretext of elimination of corruption and nepotism?
Created in 2007, the RFS was mandated on the pretext of reducing both carbon emissions and U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
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Tens of thousands of able-bodied ultra-Orthodox men defer their conscription year after year on the pretext of devoting their lives to religious study.
The court heard Seddon hired a BMW on 20 March and drove from his home to Manchester on the pretext of treating his parents to a surprise meal.
The prosecution case is that Eliza Samudio was lured to a hotel in Rio de Janeiro on the pretext of obtaining a DNA test to prove the footballer was the father of her child.
It calls for shunning "theft or looting on the pretext" of "helping to finance the armed struggle" and taking people hostage for ransom.
Under the pretext of polling people on their party affiliation, they falsely suggested that a sitting Liberal member in Montreal was planning to retire last year.
Even so, the secretary of state and her aides face the question whether Mr Netanyahu is also seizing on security as a pretext not to do what he does not want to do: implement the Oslo accords.
He abruptly left the country on January 5th after retracting a pledge to provide Prince Ranariddh, his son, with a pardon if the prince were convicted by a military court on charges of weapons smuggling and colluding with the Khmers Rouges the pretext Mr Hun Sen used to grab power.
It has used the pretext of an alleged terrorist threat to impose a restrictive security cordon on the city and curtail visas even for harmless businessmen.
The government has stripped Mr Ivanishvili (and his wife) of their citizenship on a pretext and seized a few million dollars from his bank.
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To the extent her actions are raising unwarranted expectations on the part of Palestinians and their Arab friends, past practice suggests it will translate into a pretext for new violence against Israel.
Benotman said on Tuesday that pro al Qaeda groups operating in Libya could use the death of al Libi as a pretext to expand their operations.
The novel draws on oral lore and parables in its sly critique of those who use traditional beliefs as a pretext for violence.
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