"perfect" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Since the coastal sage scrub melds into some 20 other plant communities, the gnatcatcher's habitat offers a perfect pretext for saving the entire ecology of Southern California.
- Hunting for a fugitive slave would be a perfect pretext for an invasion of this house- and perhaps worse-was She left the thought there.
- The Gallic request afforded Caesar the perfect pretext to expand his intervention as "the savior and not the conqueror of Gaul,".
- With the hawkish party being then dominant in the Ottoman court, the incident was seen as a perfect pretext for war with a weakened Venice.
- It was the perfect pretext for the United States' annexation of Texas.
- He had to know that if she did want to get rid of him as her flag captain, he was offering her the perfect pretext.
- Jefferson told me he has a perfect pretext if we ever need it.
- She had a perfect princessly pretext.
- A cabinet dispute over the railways gave Botha the perfect pretext to relieve himself of Hull.
- At worst, it could furnish the perfect pretext for a military attack on Iran.
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