What the World Trade Organization will do is add a compelling legal pretext to the corporation case.

Kurdish publications created throughout the 1960s and 1970s were shut down under various legal pretexts.

Even if the damage could not be undone, at least this large sum offered a good legal pretext for stern punishment of the thieves.

This will give Witwer a legal pretext to remove me right now.

Rather, he combined it with legal pretexts in his efforts to augment the boundaries of his kingdom.

We only worked for him so we'd have a legal pretext for fighting Achilles and the Chinese.

But this'll give 'em a legal pretext for holding us.

Don't ask me what my legal pretext was.

As a legal pretext to permit him to keep her in Seattle.

I believe that when we start to discuss legal matters in this House, the dialogue ends; or we hide behind legal pretexts.