This provided a pretext for seizing the city. Nader seized upon this as a pretext for war. Cetshwayo refuses, providing Cape Colony with a pretext to invade Zululand. He believes that the attacks were a pretext to repress dissenters. The referendum was later cited as a pretext for the Bosnian War. However, the Danzig crisis was a just a pretext for war. His temper can flare at the slightest pretext. The incursion provided the new Russian government with a pretext for intervention. In August 1882 British forces invaded and occupied Egypt on the pretext of bringing order. Diefenbaker sought a pretext for a new election. They regard a rifle as an instrument that should not be cleaned under any pretext. His mother makes Amulya come back on the false pretext of her illness. Such arguments have been used as a pretext for colonialism. Gone was the usual anti-communist pretext. Under the pretext of attacking the Tanukhids, she conquered Roman Arabia.