use as a pretext

Sure, but the difference is that they did not use it as a pretext for inciting civil war, and then making certain that one side was overwhelmingly superior in resources.

当然是的，但不同的是中国不会利用这挑起内战，并让一方在资源上占足了优势。

The group of eight leading industrialised nations and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and development countries must honour their existing commitments, particularly aid levels, to the developing world and not use the crisis as a pretext for abandoning them.

八国集团（g8）和经合组织（oecd）成员国必须履行其对发展中国家已做出的承诺（尤其是援助规模），同时不把此次危机作为取消援助的借口。

Don't always use a headache as a pretext for not going to school!

不要老以头痛为借口不上学。

Now, don't use this as a pretext to write code that performs lousy, just don't overdo it.

而现在，我们再也不能以这样的理由为编写出性能糟糕的代码寻求托辞了，当然，我们也不能矫枉过正。