But Trump, by firing McCabe and Comey on thin pretexts and then more or less immediately admitting that the pretexts were not the real reason, sends a powerful message: He doesn't care.
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Agencies must provide "genuine justifications", not pretexts, "for important decisions".
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Since then, I haven't received anything anymore, under various pretexts.
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Department officials by establishing pretexts for firing them or forcing them
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Comcast's stated reasons were pretexts, Entertainment Studios said in its own brief.
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The closures continued for weeks, and the explanations increasingly sounded like pretexts.
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It could find regulatory pretexts to disrupt the Chinese operations of American firms.
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Over the next few years, Weinstein repeatedly set up meetings under professional pretexts.
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These were thin pretexts, but there was a superficial logic to both arguments.
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Iran also has detained several foreign nationals beyond just Americans on questionable pretexts.
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"They use human rights, terrorism ... as pretexts to avoid fulfilling their commitments," Khamenei said.
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Extremist Buddhists from the Sinhala majority have on occasion attacked Muslims on various pretexts.
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Immigration authorities may conjure up new pretexts to send home people in greater numbers.
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Yet again, Mr. Trump's lawyers have offered the court premises that look like pretexts.
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But Bill Clinton's impeachment already normalized its use against Democrats on the flimsiest of pretexts.
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Ted Cruz and John Kasich both got pretexts to stay in the race on Tuesday.
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A pro-democracy intellectual suspended from China's version of Twitter on the flimsiest of pretexts.
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Federal prosecutors vigorously enforced these acts, bringing nearly 2,000 indictments, many on the thinnest of pretexts.
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Yet Pentagon budget boosters are always on the lookout for new pretexts to make their case.
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That would eliminate the need for pretexts and paperwork and make more of us happier travelers.
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This being so: The Islamic State and other jihadist groups do not require pretexts for violence.
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In the last week of July, 45,000 extra troops were rushed into Kashmir on various pretexts.
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"He and his ministers use pretexts to justify postponing elections because of their interests," she said.
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In the last week of July, 45,000 extra troops were rushed into Kashmir on various pretexts.
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Had Gulliver not been so fastidious, Ryanair could have used any number of pretexts to deny compensation.
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Their only link to Islam is the pretexts they use to justify their crimes and their folly.
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The pretexts of some politicians does not mean all those who insist on stunning have dubious motives.
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"Lavrov expressed concern about attempts to delay the resumption of political negotiations under various pretexts," the ministry said.
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" Even some of Pruitt's official meetings were pretexts, "such as scheduling an official meeting with an old friend.
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"We must be merciless…the legal quibbling, precautions and pretexts for insufficient action are not acceptable," he said.
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In an international system that expressly seeks to prevent the use of force, enabling such pretexts is highly problematic.
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Filling appointed positions with subordinates, he then turned against the Assembly, imprisoning its most outspoken critics on flimsy pretexts.
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But all such pretexts for dismissing the book would be easy ways of avoiding the hard questions it raises.
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Contrary to the justifications and pretexts of apologists for Egypt's government, it's also bad for stability and progress in Egypt.
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He gleefully raced to impeachment on the thinnest of pretexts in the hopes of politically hobbling a president he opposed.
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The U.A.E. has cracked down much harder on Islamists since 2011, arresting and incarcerating them en masse, on thin pretexts.
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They talked of managers who denied them break time, fired them on flimsy pretexts, and changed their shifts without warning.
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Chinese officials then closed 1003 of the 2100 Lotte Mart stores in China on pretexts such as breaches of fire-safety rules.
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Yet the very first sanctions it reimposed have canceled licenses for sales of 200+ passenger jets under absurd pretexts, endangering ordinary Iranians.
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"This is a dangerous game and has consequences ... the legal pretexts for the capture are not valid," Mousavi said, according to Reuters.
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Much of his work in undoing EPA regulations has been theatrical announcements with flimsy technical pretexts that will wither under legal challenges.
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In a flurry of ads, he's attempted to tie Northam to the international gang MS-13 on the thinnest of policy pretexts.
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The Pentagon also called on the Syrian government not to use "false pretexts" to carry out strikes in Idlib's de-escalation zone.
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How many voters have been pulled from voter rolls in the last 20 years, in what states, under what pretexts, and by whom?
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This is 1933, after all, and a male head of household could have members of his family committed under the flimsiest of pretexts.
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As someone who takes these rights and freedoms very seriously, I am disheartened that the ACLU has framed its concerns under such pretexts.
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"Like the schoolyard bully, our criminal justice system harasses people on small pretexts but is exposed as a coward before murder," Leovy writes.
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Yet pretexts for an attack are easy to find in the tangle of historical, religious and contemporary grudges that jihadists hold against the West.
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They were pretexts for mob violence and brutal, public executions, meant to punish black Americans for stepping outside the boundaries set by white society.
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Hardline House conservatives even threatened to force a vote on Rosenstein's impeachment this summer, based on the thinnest of pretexts (though they eventually backed down).
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In other countries, we see endless attempts to censor content, restrict carrier business models, and to shut down Internet connections on the thinnest of pretexts.
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For in the run-up to the September election, the Hong Kong government had already used highly improper pretexts to disqualify several of these activists.
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Instead, it adds to the rocket fuel that drives Iran and its clients, while furnishing outstanding and lasting pretexts for Iran's emplacement in Syria and Lebanon.
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But there's a reason that phrase comes up: A "conflict of interest" is one of the pretexts a president can use to fire a special counsel.
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It may also give Trump the very thinnest of pretexts to fire Rosenstein, which would be a first step toward attempting to shut down the Russia investigation.
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Comparisons between Daenerys and someone like George W. Bush, who authorized torture and launched a war on flimsy pretexts in the name of fighting evil, are pretty natural.
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Legal experts don't seem particularly convinced by these, and Trump's own White House counsel Don McGahn reportedly refused to order Mueller's firing based on these pretexts last year.
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Trump's conservative allies in the House of Representatives have also harshly criticized Rosenstein for months and discussed the prospect of impeaching him with only the thinnest of pretexts.
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"Many are afraid that coming out could harm their career, leading to excuses and pretexts to sideline them," Moro told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a phone interview.
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He has labeled every major terrorist attack in the US, including 9/11, as "false flags" secretly committed by the government as pretexts to take away our civil liberties.
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Were the initial explanations for the firing of Acting Attorney General Yates and FBI Director Comey pretexts that were intended to conceal the true reasons for the President's actions?
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Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov warned that the launch would give "more arguments to those who seek pretexts for new escalation of tensions," according to the Interfax news agency.
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" Judge Boggs also accused Judge Martin and his liberal colleagues of frivolously issuing stays of execution in capital punishment cases based on pretexts as flimsy as "a hot dog label.
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Over the past year, Bolton has threatened military action multiple times, telling Iran there will be "hell to pay," ratcheting up tensions wherever possible and extending potential pretexts for war.
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It didn't matter, because this legal strategy had just one purpose: to create pretexts for deporting non-Europeans, or to make them feel unwelcome enough that they would leave Denmark.
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Instead, Palestinian Jerusalemites only have tenuous residency rights in the city, which are often revoked by Israel on the flimsiest of pretexts to minimize the Palestinian presence in the city.
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Typically, raids are executed on the basis of legal pretexts, but they are widely interpreted within the cultural scene as attempts to curtail cultural freedoms and close down civil society.
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Instead, these episodes really just serve as pretexts for Trump to remind the Republican Party that he is holding all of the cards at this point in the nomination fight.
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"The Brazilian is a Narcissus inside out who spits in his own image," Mr. Rodrigues wrote, noting that we usually don't find personal or historical pretexts for a high self-esteem.
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At times, they come off as whiny and totalitarian, yes, and they choose the wrong pretexts, such as Halloween, but clearly, the impetus comes from a place of respect and decency.
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His investigations, which he performs winningly but without any extraordinary ability or expertise, are mostly just pretexts for exhuming and solving the "mystery" of the ordinary women's lives at their heart.
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"We are concerned about the U.S. State Department's lack of will to ensure the proper work of its own consular organizations under lame pretexts," the Russian embassy said in a statement.
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"We are concerned about the U.S. State Department's lack of will to ensure the proper work of its own consular organizations under lame pretexts," the Russian Embassy said in a statement.
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Still, opponents of the order will insist the new rules are merely pretexts -- that the new order once again fulfills President Trump's campaign promise to ban Muslims from entering the United States.
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The FBI, then under since-fired Director James Comey, refused on familiar pretexts: claims that my file would reveal confidential sources, contained information that would jeopardize the bureau's work, blah, blah, blah.
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Journalist Jill Leovy captured the sentiment well in her book Ghettoside: Like the schoolyard bully, our criminal justice system harasses people on small pretexts but is exposed as a coward before murder.
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"This is a dangerous game and has consequences ... the legal pretexts for the capture are not valid ... the release of the tanker is in all countries' interest," the spokesman, Abbas Mousavi, said.
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"This is a dangerous game and has consequences ... the legal pretexts for the capture are not valid ... the release of the tanker is in all countries' interest," the spokesman, Abbas Mousavi, said.
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If that store were in business, we could settle with actual facts one of the many pretexts that masquerade as answers for these tiny victims of the brutal political battle over migration.
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In an effort to profit from new trade agreements with the Islamic Republic, policymakers and lobbyists who influence them are keen to use all available pretexts to keep the moderation narrative alive.
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"In Symbolism fact and world become mere pretexts for ideas; they are handled as appearances, ceaselessly variable, and ultimately manifest themselves only as the dreams of our brains," wrote Belgian poet Emile Vergaeren.
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It focused on training cops to avoid the kinds of confrontations that lead to officers shooting unarmed civilians—many of whom, as critics point out, are often stopped on the flimsiest of pretexts.
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But Trump, by shutting down an FBI investigation into Kavanaugh for transparently partisan purposes and earlier firing Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on thin pretexts sends a powerful message: He doesn't care.
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He had found more than a half dozen young men who claimed, as they would later describe in court filings, that Terrell had harassed them, physically abused them or arrested them on false pretexts.
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The Chinese Embassy in Washington, in a separate statement issued on Tuesday, denounced the visa action and said the U.S. accusations on human rights violations were "made-up pretexts" for interfering in China's affairs.
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Policy documents and statistical analyses are not taken for serious across-the-board consideration; they are simply weapons, or fig leaves, to serve as defenses or pretexts for decisions which have already been made.
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It should make anyone question how much the former Soviet Union or any of the other pretexts that we have been given for U.S. intervention in the hemisphere over the past six decades — e.g.
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As part of his research, he took down the license plates of the ''tearoom'' visitors, and many months later went to interview them, under false pretexts, at home and often in front of their families.
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Trump's attorneys argued that the House's claims about potential legislation were just pretexts and that lawmakers were actually embarking on a impermissible, law-enforcement-type effort to try to prove that Trump had committed crimes.
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"This is in order to sever the road for some terrorist groups and their supporters, who strive to prolong this state of tension and instability and to find pretexts to target peaceful civilians," the statement said.
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Live at the Fox that March night, he and his touring band — the keyboardist Dennis Hamm and the drummer Justin Brown — would surrender to that undertow, turning once-concise tunes into pretexts for extended, stormy jams.
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Turkey will no longer be threatened by the European Union (EU) membership process, Erdogan said and added that, from now on, it will not allow any Europeans on Turkish soil to carry out 'spying' under various pretexts.
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The outsize stakes seem to justify dubious tactics — bunking down with racists, aggressive gerrymandering, inventing paper-thin pretexts for voting rules that disproportionately hurt Democrats — to prevent majorities from voting themselves a bigger slice of the pie.
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The statement said that the allegations "aim to justify a new aggression on Syria under false pretexts as happened in al-Shairat Airport, and to cover the US-led international illegal coalition's strikes," according to state media, SANA.
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Mr. Hicks's story raised the question of whether he was inventing pretexts to explain his violence, or whether his perceptions were so distorted by prejudice that he believed his own story, as Professor Sommers suggested in an affidavit.
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But the group spent the next year persuading farm and slaughterhouse owners to let them in to film their operations, using pretexts that Valle declined to share with me on the record for fear of compromising future investigations.
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Hua said it did not matter what "grandiose pretexts" Canada and the United States came up with, their case against Meng "showed contempt for the rule of law" and people around the world were ridiculing it for them.
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When Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt star Tituss Burgess stopped by The Late Late Show Monday night, Corden coaxed him into singing on the flimsiest of pretexts: Burgess has a high voice, but fellow guest John Stamos has a low voice.
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The Trump administration does so many foolish things in trade policy — steel and aluminum tariffs on treaty allies under bogus national security pretexts — that one can miss or discount cases where the president and his team are on target.
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The census saga has all the hallmarks of a quintessentially Trumpian story, in which bad-faith pretexts are crafted—and the Justice Department's integrity is mortgaged—to justify and defend a policy that's animated by hostility toward nonwhite Americans.
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Though they hold truth, the tired arguments trotted out after mass murders like the one in Parkland to maintain the easy availability of attack weapons are pretexts to preserve the age-old accoutrement that makes men feel like men.
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Here is how journalist Jill Leovy described the criminal justice system's treatment of black Americans in her insightful book Ghettoside: Like the schoolyard bully, our criminal justice system harasses people on small pretexts but is exposed as a coward before murder.
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"The administration views Saudi Arabia and the UAE as vital strategic allies; if Congress tries to contain assistance to their operations in Yemen, I would expect missions to be undertaken as counter-terrorism operations, or on other pretexts," Watling told CNBC.
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"Turkey's claims that it is fighting the YPG west of the Euphrates have no basis in truth and are merely flimsy pretexts to widen its occupation of Syrian land," Redur Xelil, chief spokesman for the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, told Reuters.
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The UAE is one of the countries that banded together with Saudi Arabia against Qatar in June; if the claims in the Post article are true, that would mean that the UAE manufactured one of the pretexts for its own boycott.
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A memo would later become public confirming the suspicion that it was in fact planned from the start by Rumsfeld, with the ostensible issue of WMDs having been listed as one of several convenient pretexts by which this might be accomplished.
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With over 7.8m outstanding warrants in state and federal databases, "the vast majority of which appear to be for minor offenses", police across America now have millions of pretexts for stopping otherwise suspicionless people and asking them to empty their pockets.
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What is news, however, is that the president is becoming more and more brazen about using flimsy pretexts to make authoritarian attacks on the highest court in the land — attacks that appear aimed at denigrating yet another check on his power.
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The officers later claimed that he failed to signal and that they smelled a strong odor of marijuana emanating from the vehicle when they approached, both common police lies used as pretexts to stop and search predominately black and Latinx people.
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In a 1936 essay, originally titled "Let Us Not Start Another Trojan War" but better known by the title of its English translation, "The Power of Words," Weil drew a relationship between the increasing abstraction of words and the pretexts used for war.
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And so this effort to use dubious national security pretexts to hide away this document and make sure that not too many people in the US government could get to see it starts to look pretty shady, like part of a cover-up.
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Trump previously characterized the FBI as being in a state of utter disarray under Comey, one of the several pretexts the president used to explain Comey's firing before publicly admitting that what he really wanted was for that whole Russia thing to go away.
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Wars there found religious pretexts or were responses to papal crusades, which, as modern historians tend to forget, were carried out within Europe itself, for example the thirteenth-century Albigensian Crusades, which exterminated an entrenched "heresy" and also greatly enlarged the kingdom of France.
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"I think we are in fact edging closer to a constitutional crisis, especially if you assume, as many do, that the administration's stated reasons for firing Comey are pretexts," Stephen Griffin, a law professor at Tulane who's written on the concept of constitutional crises, told me.
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"No matter what ridiculous pretexts they come up with, covering up under the appearance of being legitimate cannot cover up their ignorance for the real facts and their contempt for the rule of law, and people around the world are ridiculing them for this," she told reporters.
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"It is necessary to warn once again that using far-fetched and fabricated pretexts for a military intervention in Syria, where Russian servicemen are deployed at the request of the legitimate government, is absolutely unacceptable and can lead to the most serious consequences," the statement continued.
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It is a small leap from requiring immigrants to submit their DNA to verify familial relationships, or to mitigate future criminal risk (the pretexts the government has cited to justify its recent policy change) to requiring DNA screening of immigrants for health, disability, intelligence or disease.
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When the chants don't go unheard or ignored, they serve as prompts or pretexts for the pro-Trump crowd, some of whom take the time to swing by the police cordon separating the protesters from the rally and shout whatever seems like it will hurt most.
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Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and John Kasich all got pretexts they can use to justify remaining in the race — Cruz won Texas and Oklahoma and will be second place in delegates, Rubio finally won his first state with Minnesota, and Kasich seems to have effectively tied Trump in Vermont.
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This is why, though Chinese media routinely call America a bully, and treat its complaints against China as false pretexts for strategic containment, the taps of nationalist outrage have not yet been cranked fully open, and communist propaganda chiefs have not launched a personal campaign against Mr Trump.
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"This is a dangerous game and has consequences ... the legal pretexts for the capture are not valid ... the release of the tanker is in all countries' interest ... Foreign powers should leave the region because Iran and other regional countries are capable of securing the regional security," Mousavi said.
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If we continue to excuse American conduct in Vietnam as a well-intentioned, if tragic, intervention rather than a purposeful assertion of imperial power, we are less likely to challenge current war managers who have again mired us in apparently endless wars based on false or deeply misleading pretexts.
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The pretexts they offer differ — some say Mueller is too close to that untrustworthy leaker James Comey, some profess to believe there's no need for an investigation into Russian interference at all, and others complain that Mueller is hiring some attorneys who have donated to Democrats in the past.
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"Now that all pretexts for various plots against the republic have been removed, I call everyone to ... to create conditions of true peace and stability throughout the country," Kabila said in a year-end address to the nation, which however did not directly address his own view on the talks.
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But the rich moved quickly to throw all that out the window as soon as they could get away with it — starting in the 1970s, when stagflation and the oil crisis presented pretexts for pro-capitalist policy that set the stage for a weakened welfare state under President Ronald Reagan.
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This time, the German and the Dutch central bankers are on a special mission, where attacks on the ECB, and its excellent President Mario Draghi, are pretexts for deflecting pressures that those two economies — accounting for more than a third of the euro area GDP — should be stimulating their domestic demand.
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And so, C-sections are routinely prescribed under an endless number of pretexts, many of them as implausible as: placental allergies, asthma, scoliosis, gingivitis, an excessively hairy baby, a soccer match between Atlético and Cruzeiro, and — most creative of all — the assumption that evolution made the female body incompatible with labor.
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She has always insisted that these kind of creative accounting methods are perfectly legal as well as normal practice, but her defense on Monday put far more emphasis on describing the allegations as "pretexts to legitimize a coup" against her planned, she said, by the economic elite and leaders of the political opposition.
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At least 85033 jailed journalists — nearly a third of the global total —were in Turkey, a U.S. ally in the fight against Islamic extremism that has used the pretexts of terrorism and national security to not only imprison journalists, but expel foreign reporters, shut down news outlets and destroy their archives and censor social media.
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"On top of the retaliatory measures announced yesterday, the Government of Canada today requested WTO consultations with the United States regarding its imposition of punitive tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium from Canada, and more generally, on the United States' improper use of national security pretexts for protectionist purposes," Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said in a statement.
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He has pretexts for each: He has to help Wendy prepare; he has to defend against Taylor's takeover of that appliance company; he has to come up with an appropriate tax-evasion scheme to offset the 18 fine art masterpieces he purchased on a whim at Art Basel; he needs Wags to deliver Joe's Stone Crab takeout from Miami Beach; and so on.
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"It's really sad that companies are not listening to their users and put weak and misleading pretexts to not respect their choice of privacy," said Andrés Arrieta, tech projects manager at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who attempted in 2017 to breathe life back into Do Not Track by establishing a new standard for what websites should do when they see someone send the DNT:1 signal.
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"Sensible people all know that the murder in Zhaoyuan, Shandong province is the excuse the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) found to intentionally frame the Church of Almighty God and launch a full-fledged crackdown on the underground churches, especially the Church of Almighty God," stated one video, comparing the incident to the Tiananmen Square massacre as an example of how Beijing used pretexts to suppress its enemies.
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Comparing the detention of the Canadian men in Chinese custody to the arrest of the Huawei CFO, Hua said of the Canadians that, "no matter what ridiculous pretexts they come up with, covering up under the appearance of being legitimate, cannot cover up their ignorance for the real facts and their contempt for the rule of law and people around the world are ridiculing them for this."
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And yet this was nothing compared to the routine threats of violence, sexual and otherwise, that women, minorities, and dissenters are subjected to in Modi's increasingly intolerant India, where people have been lynched by mobs, assassinated by hitmen, arrested by the police on questionable pretexts, driven to suicide through threats and social pressure, and assaulted in judicial complexes, in full view of the police.
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This may seem so self-evident that it's not even worth writing about — you probably need only consider your local national politics — but the strange thing is that so many of the participants in the whole apparatus, the policy analysts and think tankers and speechgivers and presenters, don't seem to realize that nowadays their output is used as weapons and pretexts, rather than ideas to compete with other ideas in a rational marketplace.
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Iran on Tuesday suggested that President Donald Trump was trying to distract attention from the criticism of his recent executive order on travel to the US. "It seems that under current circumstances, certain figures in the United States, with political and propaganda motivations, are seeking pretexts in order to ease the international pressure and criticism which they have faced due to imprudent decision over anti Muslim travel ban," said a spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry.
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