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Перевод: pretext

[существительное]
отговорка ; предлог ;
[глагол]
приводить в качестве отговорки; отговариваться

Тезаурус:

1. Domestic violence will be the pretext to "tackle" what Labour designates "the perpetuation of stereotypical attitudes towards women in our educational system, the world of the media and society at large".
2. It is odd to speak of the creation of a state as the "pretext" for anything: the translator may possibly be responsible for the oddity here, as for the orotundity that precedes it.
3. The best criticism is that which is both amusing and poetic; not a cold, mathematical criticism which, on the pretext of explaining everything, has neither love nor hate, and voluntarily strips itself of every shred of temperament.
4. And when you do finally get to bed, you can't lock yourself in and you may be woken up at any time of the night on any pretext.
5. The lease would be used as a pretext for the wholesale felling of timber, which even then was in short supply for building and repairing "your Majesty's shyps, wych are the Jewells of your kingdom".
6. "You know how it is," he would say to their hosts, on the pretext of apologising for arriving late, "She couldn't find a thing to wear.
7. Indeed, as the operation wore on, badly in need of justification, peace became one of the chief pretexts for it; and not entirely a pretext.
8. The foresters used this customary toll as a pretext for extortion: the Charter of the Forest therefore conceded in 1217 that henceforth cheminage might be exacted only by foresters of fee paying the king a farm for their bailiwicks.
9. Banning unofficial action will put individual workers entirely at the mercy of unscrupulous employers who will be able to dismiss them selectively on the slightest pretext, without any right of appeal."
10. One by one, true believers have either died off or slipped away into the post-Modern or revivalist camp under one pretext or another.
11. Mrs Thatcher interprets the Madrid formula more as a pretext for not joining the EMS than as a set of three conditions for joining it.
12. The Frankfurt Institute has warned that the quest for an internal market has rapidly become a pretext for unrelated transfers of power and international standardisation by decree.
13. She managed to escape to the kitchen on the pretext of having seen an old friend heading in that direction.