другие переводы
предлог |
pretext
excuse
preposition
guise
plea
cloak
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отговорка |
excuse
pretense
subterfuge
pretext
evasion
alibi
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отговариваться |
explain away
pretext
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приводить в качестве отговорки |
pretext
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синонимы
имя существительное
примеры использования
For example, the Disability Discrimination Act applies to small business and service providers but apparently local authorities and their partners, on any number of pretexts , can fail to comply.
I remember most of all the strange inactivity of the powerful - there were plenty of legal pretexts to arrest anyone who physically barred the tankers' way out, but nothing much seemed to happen.
He has often sought to justify repression on the pretexts of threatened coups against his government.
The usual pretexts for war were used, which resulted in profits for the privileged few.
But it has become increasingly clear to them that the pretexts for the war were false.
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