Molotov declared in his report entitled " On the Foreign Policy of the Soviet Union " ( 31 October 1939 ) held on the fifth ( extraordinary ) session of the Supreme Soviet, that the Western " ruling circles " disguise their intentions with the pretext of defending democracy against Hitlerism, declaring " their aim in war with Germany is nothing more, nothing less than extermination of Hitlerism.

On 4 May 1408, Gregory XII convened his cardinals at Lucca and ordered them not to leave the city under any pretext.

On 20 July 1974, the TAF launched an invasion of Cyprus on the pretext of a coup which had been staged by the Cypriot National Guard against president Makarios III with the intention of annexing the island to Greece, but the invasion ended up with Turkey occupying a considerable area on the north part of it and establishing a government on it that only Turkey recognizes.

On 3 March 1541, the French Ambassador, Charles de Marillac, reported in a letter that the King was now said to be lamenting that " under pretext of some slight offences which he had committed, they had brought several accusations against him, on the strength of which he had put to death the most faithful servant he ever had.

On 26 April 1718, on the pretext of failing powers, he was dismissed in favour of William Benson.

On 20 July 1974, the Turkish army invaded the island on the pretext of restoring the constitutional order of the Republic of Cyprus.

On the pretext that garrisons have been placed in some of the free Greek cities by Antigonus, Ptolemy and Cassander renew hostilities against him.

On the pretext of a slight to their consul, the French invaded Algiers in 1830.

On the pretext that Knossos was backing Mithradates, Marcus Antonius Creticus attacked Crete in 71 BC and was repelled.

On his return to Africa, possibly because Louis Napoleon considered him a suitable military head of a potential coup d ' état, an expedition took place into Little Kabylia, in which Saint Arnaud showed his prowess as a commander-in-chief and provided his superiors with the pretext for bringing him home as a general of division ( July 1851 ).

On a pretext, Hōjō Tokimasa invited Hiki Yoshikazu to his home and assassinated him.

On July 15, the government of Emile Ollivier declared war on Prussia, nominally over the Hohenzollern candidature for the throne of Spain, the pretext for France to declare war in order to satisfy France's increasing unease and desire to halt Prussian expansion in Europe.

On some pretext or other he wreaks his vengeance.

On July 7, 1937, at the Marco Polo Bridge, the Japanese Kwantung army stationed there used explosions heard on the Chinese side of Manchuria as a pretext for invasion.

On the pretext that the Labour Party voters were not happy with involvement with Fianna Fáil, Dick Spring withdrew his support for Reynolds as Taoiseach.

On 1 September 1939, without a formal declaration of war, Germany invaded Poland with the immediate pretext being the Gleiwitz incident, a provocation staged by the Gestapo claiming that Polish troops had allegedly committed " provocations " along the German-Polish border including house torching, which were all staged by the Germans.

On 21 April 1967, a group of right-wing Greek Army colonels led by Georgios Papadopoulos successfully carried out a coup d ' état on the pretext of imminent " communist threat ", establishing what became known as the Regime of the Colonels.

On 30 April 1790 the fort was invaded by anti-clerical revolutionaries who, under pretext of attending a mass in the chapel, cross the drawbridge, using a stratagem similar to that adopted by the ' liguers ' in 1594.

On May 1, 1833 Jackson wrote, " the tariff was only a pretext, and disunion and southern confederacy the real object.

On some pretext or other he wrecketh his vengeance.

On 15 January, under pretext of a ministerial crisis, in which his friends abandoned him, Casimir-Perier handed in his resignation as president of the republic, The mysteries and unpleasantness of the Dreyfus affair hastened this decision.

The program said, " On the pretext of financially helping people in need, instill their own teachings in these people's minds.

On 12 February 1948, he drove Henderson to Crawley, on the pretext of showing him an invention.

On 10 June 1794 ( 22 Prairial Year II on the French Republican Calendar ) with the aid of Robespierre, Couthon drafted the Law of 22 Prairial, which in the case of trials before the Revolutionary Tribunal deprived the accused of the aid of counsel or of witnesses for their defence, on the pretext of shortening the proceedings.

On May 23, 1845, Abby May was granted a sum from her father's estate which was put into a trust fund, granting minor financial security.

On land, mammals were a small and still relatively minor component of the fauna.

She continued to make minor and frequently nostalgic period musicals such as Starlift, The West Point Story, On Moonlight Bay, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, and Tea For Two for Warner Brothers.

On April 28, 2007, the Astros purchased the contract of top minor league prospect Hunter Pence.

On the other side of the roster, the Astros would start without Kazuo Matsui, who was on a minor league rehab assignment after a spring training injury.

On July 31, outfielder Lance Berkman was traded to the New York Yankees for minor leaguers Jimmy Paredes and Mark Melancon.

While on Sado, he won many devoted converts and wrote two of his most important doctrinal treatises, the Kaimoku Shō ( 開目抄: " On the Opening of the Eyes " ) and the Kanjin no Honzon Shō ( 観心本尊抄: " The Object of Devotion for Observing the Mind ") as well as numerous letters and minor treatises whose content containing critical components of his teaching.

On Christmas Day 2005, Demiforce and Radical R released the final version ( 1. 4 ) of the translation, which fixed remaining minor bugs.

On February 27, 2006, to train for the World Baseball Classic, Roger pitched in an exhibition game between the Astros and his son's minor league team.

On March 20, 2007, the first season was again added to the iTunes Store, with separate downloads for the original and remastered versions of the show, though according to the customer reviews, the original version contains minor revisions such as special effect enhancements.

On his return to Rome in about 30, he obtained a post in the vigintivirate, the minor magistracies, most probably in one of the posts in charge of street cleaning.

On the second ballot, with only minor opposition, King finally obtained the Democratic vice-presidential nomination.

On particularly busy freeways, a minor disruption may persist in a phenomenon known as traffic waves.

On the very morning of the premiere, Weber finished his Konzertstück in F minor for Piano and Orchestra, and he premiered it a week later.

On the day of the treaty-signing, Rary — once a minor spellcaster created and then discarded by Brian Blume, but now elevated by TSR to the Circle of Eight — attacked his fellow Circle members, aided and abetted by Robilar.

On drier sites in California, where Douglas-fir behaves as a climax species in the absence of fire, the Douglas-fir has become somewhat invasive following fire suppression practices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries ; it is becoming a dominant species in many oak woodlands, in which it was previously a minor component.

On July 2, 1984, Canadian Karel Soucek from Hamilton, Ontario successfully plunged over the Horseshoe Falls in a barrel with only minor injuries.

On the east and southeast this range is flanked by the great plateau of Mongolia, the transition being effected gradually by means of several minor plateaus, such as Ukok 2380 m with Pazyryk Valley, Chuya 1, 830 m, Kendykty 2, 500 m, Kak 2, 520 m, Suok 2, 590 m, and Juvlu-kul 2, 410 m.

On November 9, 1965, a relatively minor system disturbance triggered a power system protection component that was not properly configured.

On 18 July 1988, while on holiday with her son Ari, Nico had a minor heart attack while riding a bicycle and hit her head as she fell.

On October 1, 2006, Spassky suffered a minor stroke during a chess lecture in San Francisco.

On February 12, 2000, Griffey was traded to the Reds for pitcher Brett Tomko, outfielder Mike Cameron, and minor leaguers Antonio Perez and Jake Meyer.

On his early American tours, he programmed works such as the Chopin Preludes and Schumann's Fantasie in C. Among other works that he played, as recalled by those such as Claudio Arrau and Vladimir Horowitz, who had heard Schnabel in the 1920s, were Chopin's E minor Piano Concerto and the Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, and Weber's Konzertstück in F minor, Piano Sonata No. 2, and Invitation to the Dance.