I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.
We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.
The Republicans abandoned the pretext of democracy to fight a war for power long ago.
Once a decade, once every eight years, Donald Trump finds some pretext to say I suck and that I'm bad.
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons.
A large-scale crisis - whether a terrorist attack or a financial crash - would likely provide the pretext to declare some sort of state of exception or emergency, where the usual rules no longer apply.
If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
In what was called the second siege of Leningrad, thousands died, but Putin and his partners in crime got rich. Then Putin killed even more Russians when he had the FSB explode bombs in apartment buildings in Moscow in 1999 to give himself the pretext to seize dictatorial powers.
