Kerik withdrew his name on the pretext of having once hired a nanny who may have been an undocumented alien.

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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.

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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.

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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.

BBC: Eliza Samudio in August 2009

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.

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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.

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