But claims of self defense also find less reputable invocations.

Only a month ago, Mubarak dismissed demands for constitutional reform as futile.

But, above all, politicians must stop trying to shore up their diminished credibility with the pretense of economic science.

And they made us fear our secularism, on the pretext that it would destroy our unity.

General Musharraf is the third Pakistani general in fifty years to seize power proclaiming a self anointed reform agenda.

The government uses the threat of terrorist attacks to justify domestic repression of political opponents and the absence of democratic reforms.

As the pretext for ignoring the repression of basic freedoms, that conflict has come to be described in powerful national and religious rhetoric throughout Syrian society.

The presiding judge dismissed the petition to investigate the case as an example of torture, saying the claim was unfounded.

Most important, it would undermine Iran s efforts to make inroads into the Arab world under the pretext of defending Palestine and Holy Jerusalem.

The United States routinely kidnaps innocent people on the pretence that they are terrorist suspects, and tortures them in secret prisons.

The seizure of the Paracel Islands from Vietnam in 1974 by Chinese forces was another example of offense as defense.

The Bush administration knew what it was doing when it declared war on terror and used that pretext for invading Iraq.

So far, the West has rejected everything, on the pretext that any uranium enrichment would indicate a military program.

I used the mistletoe as an excuse to kiss him.

The most flagrant absence of leadership on display today, in the name of following the apparent majority view of the people, is that of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in Germany.

Rugurika said that under the pretense of working on a story, he arranged for a driver from his radio station to take him close to the Rwandan border.

What would be said if the British government had bombed Belfast, or if the Spanish government bombed Bilbao, on the pretext of quelling the IRA or the ETA?

In response, thousands of people in Paniai have been arrested and arbitrarily detained by the military in recent years, under the guise of safeguarding national sovereignty.

Today, too, governments may be tempted to protect newspapers and public TV on the pretext of saving democracy as we know it.

Indeed, nbsp eurozone countries should not relax their reform efforts on the assumption that ECB bond purchases will solve their problems.

In August 2014, Apple also began storing some Chinese users' personal data on servers in mainland China, under the pretext of improving the speed and reliability of its iCloud service for users in China.

It attained a mandate that from it, under the pretext of protecting populations in danger, which allowed the escape of its allies pursued by the Rwandan Patriotic Front.

Similarly, my office defended the liberal weekly newspaper Novoe Vremya (New Times), which was being pressured by Moscow's city government on the pretext of a commercial dispute about a lease.

In the meantime, the absence of institutional reform should not be allowed to serve as a pretext for inaction.

Other Twitter users found Putin's speech to be simply a good opportunity to make fun of the Americans

Potentially, this could mean that websites like Facebook or some of the Google suite of services could be blocked in Ukraine under the anti piracy pretext .

Authorities believe Mannan and his friend Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy, a theater activist, were killed by three assailants who entered Mannan s building claiming that they had to deliver a package.

The Chinese authorities detention of a Taiwanese NGO worker on vague national security grounds raises fears the authorities are broadening their attack against those carrying out legitimate activism.

Nietzsche criticized Haeckel, Spencer, and Darwin, sometimes under the same banner by maintaining that in specific cases, sickness was necessary and even helpful.

Wanting to reunite with Victoria, Victor tricks Emily into taking him back to the Land of the Living by pretending he wants her to meet his parents.

Security must not become a pretext for the suspending and destroying the liberal order.

You can say, Give a muffin to a mouse, the prepositional dative.

The new Arab generation s quest for dignity is rooted in a yearning for decent government and civil rights that was long denied under the pretext of conflict with the Zionist crusaders.

The document, which is a transcript of the lecture, proves that with the excuse of reducing the damages, these containers get infected with hazardous waste and even heavy metals that are dumped there by specialist companies.

The page of Starbucks Ukraine in Facebook ( )posted all info in Russian language with justification that Ukrainian people all understand it and they don't need translation into official Ukrainian language.

Seizing the first opportunity she rose and, stepping firmly and lightly, went out to fetch her album.

He has long insisted on the creation of a no fly buffer zone on the Syrian side of the border, under the pretext that it would help to address the humanitarian crisis that the civil war has engendered.

Moualem, who also serves as deputy prime minister, said the foreign forces were on Syrian soil illegally, under the pretext of fighting terrorism, and will be dealt with accordingly.

Demarcating land unfavorably for these southern populations, and introducing new discriminations against women on the pretext of national security, Nepal's new constitution remains highly divisive, a year later.

According to that information, a group of police officers went to the market under the pretext of an inspection, suspended the market's operation and demanded 1 million rubles from traders for permission to resume work, Kommersant writes.

The situation is more byzantine, but just as politicized, in Turkey, where prosecutors and judges have consistently set their sights on the moderately Islamic Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the name of protecting the secular constitution.

But Soh Lung's most recent Facebook post about the incident met a different fate censorship. Soh Lung reported that her post (see below) denouncing abuses of power by police in Singapore was removed by Facebook for violating community standards.'

America s president is not searching for excuses to start a war Assad s chemical weapons are not a fanciful pretext.

But experts argue the changes are simply budget cuts by a different name.

Is it that any form of social activities can be intercepted with this excuse?