seek pretext

常见例句

Few among the electorate pay attention to debates about policy. (Nor, for that matter, do MPs.) Instead politicians seek emotive issues as a pretext for presenting themselves as stout defenders of their voters, the supposedly offended victims.
ECONOMIST: A great institution shows a less attractive side
Israel withdrew from Lebanon six years ago but Hizbullah, like its Iranian sponsor, claims to seek Israel's complete destruction and seizes every pretext to fight on.
ECONOMIST: Israel and Lebanon