How To Use Covert In A Sentence

The greatest bar to women's participation was the common-law principle of coverture, although it should be noted that the status and authority of married women in plebeian families likely permitted them a good deal of behind-the-scenes involvement in any legal matters confronting their families. Gutenber-e Help Page
And maybe she used to be a Democrat (though my experience is that the coverted are always the most rabid). Hilary Rosen: Harriet and her Friend
I dunno," said the plaguesome boy, looking at the address covertly. Janice Day at Poketown
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Instead, all the clifty defiles of the ranges were filled with the roar of flames and the crackling of burning timbers as town after town was given to the firebrand, and the homeless, helpless Cherokees frantically fleeing to the densest coverts of the wilderness, -- that powerful truculent tribe! The Frontiersmen

Terrorists have been operating covertly in England for several years.
No one doubts, however, that it does maintain covert agents and does use monetary pay-offs to gain influence in the country.
In flight, black axillaries contrast with white under-wing coverts.
Religion is often made the covert of crime.
I especially liked Hans Brauer (Darby on Sons of Anarchy) as the supposedly hard-assed covert agent who folded like a little kid once he discovered This is Not a Game. Checkmate : Bev Vincent
Writing in the British journal New Scientist, the famed poet and historian Robert Graves said in 1972, "Technology is now warring openly against the crafts, and science covertly against poetry.
This was his middle range, a place of dense coverts, bullbrier thickets and sunny open spots among the ledges, where you might, with good-luck, find him on special days at any season. Secret of the Woods
But by the following year it was fully committed to covert anti-communist operations under the Truman Doctrine.
Some experts envisage a future of nimble covert operations. Times, Sunday Times
On standard problems, solutions were coded as covert when the child simply added or subtracted the correct number of chips in a single operation.
It came just four months after another BBC expose, Kenyon Confronts, used covert footage to show three trainers claiming horses could be prevented from winning certain races in order to lower handicaps.
Later, in postdivorce, I covertly launched a personal blog under a pen name. MyLinkVault Newest Links
They attacked suddenly and skilfully using natural covertures, destroy our positions one after another by the direct fire.
Everywhere in the city the tension is papable, we have always had the sense that the jim crow mentality was beneath the surface but with all the racially devisive inuendo being put out by Mccain/Palin the rippling currents of animosities that haven’t been felt here covertly for a very long time are boilng beneath the surface. Evening Buzz: 18 days to go
Intertextuality, collage, declared and covert citations are instrumental and often enlightening in her 'decreations'. The Times Literary Supplement
Add to that a covert operation to score some marijuana for his dad's glaucoma, and, well, it's needless to say this day doesn't end well.
Under the English common law of feme covert – which was also the law in Massachusetts – married women had no right to own property, and the personal property a married daughter inherited from her father immediately became the legal possession of her husband, who could exert full powers of ownership over it. History of American Women
I popped open the laptop and punched in the seven passwords that would gain me entrance to my more covert files.
Vendors and retailers dealing in pirated products, either covertly or overtly, pose an omnipresent temptation to already vulnerable consumers
It differs in its lighter brown colour, not becoming darker or purpled on the breast; in the extension of the yellow colour all over the upper part of the back and on the wing coverts; in the lighter yellow of the side plumes, which have only a tinge of orange, and at the tips are nearly pure white; and in the comparative shortness of the tail cirrhi. The Malay Archipelago
Critics of the war have called for more covert action as an alternative to bombing.
But there are records of Antony which represent him as a far more genial and human personage; full of a knowledge of human nature, and of a tenderness and sympathy, which account for his undoubted power over the minds of men; and showing, too, at times, a certain covert and "pawky" humour which puts us in mind, as does the humour of many of the Egyptian hermits, of the old-fashioned Scotch. The Hermits
He was also a source of ideas and plans for covert action to influence the course of the war.
We should learn to fight with enemy in an overt and covert way.
Francesca watched with a covert twist of amusement to her mouth as Mrs Longton took a brief pause and lifted the cup to her tired lips.
The vehicle has a tamper-proof exhaust, covert lighting and sirens. Times, Sunday Times
Feminist reformers also challenged coverture by invoking equality.
To the south-west is a rank clay, that requires the labour of years to render it mellow; while the gardens to the north-east, and small enclosures behind, consist of a warm, forward, crumbling mould, called black malm, which seems highly saturated with vegetable and animal manure; and these may perhaps have been the original site of the town; while the woods and coverts might extend down to the opposite bank. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
Landowners who did not hunt were still expected to plant and maintain gorse coverts.
While not depicted here, it is suggested that the inhibitory input to these DA pathways produces the overt and covert restlessness characteristic of akathisia.
'Corn observed them covertly, hoping to leam something that might be useful in his relationship with Nepe. Here There Are Monsters
He planned an operation requiring covert surveillance, to arrest several suspects.
Failure to select a suitable candidate because of age is often a covert form of racial and gender discrimination.
The army carried out covert surveillance of the building for several months.
He was as unschooled in covert action as his Embassy counterparts, but was more innovative and seemingly inexhaustible.
It's not subtly or covertly homophobic for a soap to have a gay character experience homophobia, is it?
They show conspicuous white edgings in the wing-coverts and an absence of a white neck-patch.
As large buyers of flights and hotel rooms, consultancies can arrange with travel agencies to deliver covertly discounts of about 40 per cent.
The line that separates openly official and covert/clandestine is not a bright one. The Volokh Conspiracy » Clandestine Military Operations
Police arrested a drug courier in London after attaching a covert listening device to his vehicle in Yorkshire and monitoring his conversations, a court heard.
The boat was sunk by a covert operations team to discourage other illegal aliens from making the trip.
Footage recorded covertly showed a nurse announcing her intention to give morphine to a resident'to shut her up'. Times, Sunday Times
Each and every neo-fascist string-puller or puppet committed an Act of Treason when they spoke the name of an active covert C.I.A. spy to any person who had neither proper security clearance nor a legitimate (U.S. national security-related) Need To Know. Who Killed Julius Caesar?
Notice that, for him, it's just a fact, entirely incontestable, that there's no evidence againstthe Standard Narrative of 9/11; and so he doesn't even think of actually contending withthe evidence, but urges that it be "debunked" covertly -- and pre-emptively, so that thepublic never gets to hear about it, and discuss it for themselves. Obama's Info Chief advocates Disinformation and Domestic Covert Ops
If this was a covert air war, both Bush and Blair may face searching questions.
Females also have red wing coverts but to a lesser extent.
The only waterfowl with both red forehead and habit of constantly flirting white under tail coverts.
He arrived in August 1942, just two months after the covert base there became operational.
A covert team began to follow him and his telephone and computer activities were monitored. Times, Sunday Times
I couldn't help but admire the beautifully laid out game crops and newly-planted coverts.
The British incarnation of the world’s most popular etailer is no longer offering The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of the Church of Scientology, a 318-page tome from John Duignan, who spent 22 years inside the top secret organization. Amazon UK pulls Scientology expose for ‘legal reasons’
Well, apparently it has something to do with 'covert redirection of the attentional spotlight'. Times, Sunday Times
Granted, aside from when I lived in Scotland and everything coverted into a small fortune in dollars, I have never been the type of person to spend $800 on gifts. Halls a little less decked? (What if No One's Watching?)
So, I coverted it to simplified characters, did another Flickr search, and got pictures of something that looks like what they call danbing (egg cake or egg cracker) in Taiwan. Matthew Yglesias » The View From Your Breakfast
His behaviour in administering the injections was consistent with the underhand and covert manner in which he purchased the drug. The Sun
Their design is increasingly subtle and their placement more covert as they store a wealth of personal information as we innocently go about our lives. The Sun
From my position of total ignorance on the topic, I can imagine that Mr Tsvangirai could have"outmanoeuvred" Mr Mugabe by getting the leaders of surrounding states to covertly support a civil war of the sort that brought Mr Mugabe himself to power. The BBC, Zimbabwe and some disturbing reporting
the brush provided a covert for game
Because the system is wholly passive, it's well suited to covert surveillance.
But a covert Russian secret police agent discovers them and the chase is on.
Young proudly talked about his experiences in covert operations and his many decorations, which included the Distinguished Service Cross, two Purple Hearts, and more than 50 commendations from the Army. D Magazine - The Truth about Viet Nam Vets
Beginning 'There is is no longer any Temple of the Sun' there is a disturbing resonance with the recognition by both Lettrists and Situationists that the 33rd degree Masonry embodied the final syllable of the secret word JAHBULON as a reference to the Biblical city of On - more recently Heliopolis - refined by ANONYMOUS to the deceitful (cunning) Albertopolis - a name which covertly draws in the European Monarchical cabbala linking the Kaiser to Ra, the sun-God, rededicated to Osiris, God of the Dead. Brit Lit Blogs
Abbershaw nodded and stared covertly at the fresh-faced young man with the tow-coloured hair and the foolish, pale-blue eyes behind tortoiseshell-rimmed spectacles, and wondered where he had seen him before.
First, environmental justifications for trade restrictions are sometimes little more than covert protectionism.
'wonderfull and marvelous greate quantitie of corne and graine'; and destroying the 'covertures of thatched housery, bernes, rekes, stakkes, and other such like'; so that all persons were to do their best to kill them, 'on pain of a grevous amerciament'. A Short History of English Agriculture
As a covert operative she made trips abroad to exploit her expertise in unconventional weapons.
Usually it is covert and can only be diagnosed by specifically measuring blood lipids.
Footage recorded covertly showed a nurse announcing her intention to give morphine to a resident'to shut her up'. Times, Sunday Times
Many activists have received messages purporting to offer an app used by the protesters, but which actually installed software that covertly monitored their phone. Times, Sunday Times
Though sometimes overt, racism is usually covert, but is deeply ingrained in professional and institutional practices.
The more covert and salacious these prints were, the more they were treasured by the general populace, who at such times were also frustrated by limits placed on their dress and behavior by strict sumptuary codes.
So Libby perjures himself over a non-crime Plame was not a covert agent at the time. Think Progress » BREAKING: Libby Destroyed Evidence Prior To Testifying, Cheney ‘Deeply Involved’
Is the dynamic in the family stable or is there overt or covert hostility? Times, Sunday Times
We've a lot of air support and a lot of backup as opposed to these small covert wars that we've been used to fighting.
So I must deploy all possible, practicable means to be covert.
During World War II he acquired a government contract to manufacture covert and gabardine trousers.
He says that the Gemini squad will be seen in uniform, but there are also more covert operations.
Covert video surveillance was research; it has been published as research and therefore did fall within the remit of the inquiry.
The Democrats have demanded an investigation and want to outlaw what they call covert propaganda. CNN Transcript Jan 28, 2005
He can capably hunt bobwhite quail and pheasants in the brushy coverts.
I was on a covert filming assignment. Times, Sunday Times
Its belly and underwing coverts were dark, but his tail was red.
The favoured format would show them the covert video of them slobbing out and show them how content and real they look.
And my bow twanged and sang in the covert, and the deer fell fast-stricken, and the warm meat was sweet to us, and she was mine there by the water - hole. Chapter 21
The actual reviews are not even really about the newer generation: The infantilization rhetoric is just that, rhetoric in the negative sense, a covert appeal to generational resentments. Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
Knowing he was in there we called up the beaters and they went through the covert from end to end.
Again: the institution of slavery is only mentioned in the Constitution of the United States two or three times, and in neither of these cases does the word slavery or negro race occur; but covert language is used each time, and for a purpose full of significance. Last Joint Debate, at Alton. Mr. Lincoln's Reply
Mounted hunters and foot followers, accompanied by novice hounds and men wielding whips and spades, surround fox coverts at dawn.
In their eyes, he has reached covert deal with contractor, that is the contractor bribed him underhand so as to get the contract to build the city roads and bridges. 6.A cat may look at a king.
Relatives who suspect abuse are increasingly using covert filming to monitor loved ones. The Sun
They covertly observed Lauren, who was sitting between Ned and Algie at a nearby table.
I do not believe the CIA would have a turf difficulty with that — I could be wrong — but I have the strong impression that the CIA believes that its longterm comparative advantage in the use of force is … discrete, intelligence driven, high value, deniable, covert uses of force - an in a legal sense, the “pure” self-defense, not in an armed conflict, part of “use of force.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare, the CIA, and Charlie Savage’s NYT Article
The situation of commercial bribery which boasts the features of prevalence, diversity, complexity and covertness is getting worse in China. It is still a long way ahead to effectively eradicate this.
He covertly hired one of the era's poison pen writers, James Callendar to smear president John Adams as a "repulsive pedant" and "a hideous hermaphroditical character. Caryl Rivers: Goodbye to St. Barack
Actually there are limitless supplies available at around $35 barrel, the level where it becomes generally ecomomic to covert stocks other than "pumped light oil" into oil products -- those other stocks being the likes of heavy oil, coal, gas, tar sands, shale, etc., which exist in quantities vasty greater than humanity will ever use. Basic Oil Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Mr Obama will need the Clintons all the way and they will offer him their most coverted aid when all is over. Clinton adviser: Clinton 'willing' to lend campaign more money
One wonders, though, how "deniable" such force could be in today's world and if such a covert plan could be efficiently executed in the first place. Bush's Amazing Achievement
Therefore, sending him to operate covertly behind enemy lines was a tremendous risk for the regime.
Barry covertly watched Natalie while Leyden's rattish characteristics were under discussion. Gold Out of Celebes
He says that the Gemini squad will be seen in uniform, but there are also more covert operations.
The open, revelatory vision of the crystal ends up being one more version of the covert vision of allegory.
Covert video cameras and hand-held laser devices will be among the equipment used at weekends, they warn.
People who object to the covert reintroduction of rates through the bin tax will have to watch their refuse pile high outside their homes.
We plotted our methods of evasion like we were planning a covert military operation, carefully mapping out alternate routes of entry and exit.
Some experts envisage a future of nimble covert operations. Times, Sunday Times
Representatives of _P.c. amoenissima_ have black at the base of the inner web of the outermost rectrix more extended, usually showing beyond the tip of the under tail coverts. Birds from Coahuila, Mexico
The government was accused of covert military operations against the regime.
The covert business of hiding out adds a decidedly desperate top note to the headiness of high living.
But the media are not Rasputin with a covert or overt political agenda.
[2]] Crest, axillaries, retrices, nape, mantle, scapulars, and wing coverts are some unusual names of the birds anatomy. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
We hand him a camera, set up covert video inside the digger's cab and pass him the fake bomb. The Sun
4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
The mechanism of propitiation carries with it covert hostility.
Covert, they read, in quaint carved letters under the eave of the porch. CHAPTER XVIII
After all, if "serviceable" vehicles today are decommissioned for lack of parts due to the cash for clunkers program, isn't that covert stimulus, even if it comes at the expense of used-parts salvagers? Obsolescence Is Often
Modern terrorism is noteworthy today in that it is being done covertly.
It is taboo, embarrassment and sexuality's enforced covertness which foments ‘sauciness’, prurience, and notions of filth.
The clever asides that create a covert intimacy with the audience were too quick for the vocal transitions, if any, to register.
I doubt it, terrorism is all about covert ops, stealthy operations and leaving as little evidence and traces as possible.
Some hunts even constructed artificial earths within their coverts to further encourage the fox population.
Or, more appropriately, though rather more abstrusely, could she have been thinking of Rumour in Henry IV part 2, which with ‘covert enmity / Under the smile of safety wounds the world’?
For all it pretends to laugh at that 1950s ideal, covertly the film celebrates it.
On top of them descended from the waggon on high a flame-coloured shock of hair surmounting a freckled face, a covert coat, a kummerbund, and cloth gaiters. From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War
Other covert radio transmitters available from security equipment dealers have serious drawbacks.
In arranging their wedding, John and Carolyn set in motion a covert operation of monumental proportions, demanding signed statements of confidentiality from everyone connected to the event, starting with waiters hired for the meals and ending with ferrymen needed to transport the forty select guests to remote Cumberland Island, forty-five minutes by boat off the southeast coast of Georgia. American Legacy
Cyber protection systems should use covert identification programs to discover information about an infiltrator.
Heroin worth £1, 500 was seized, along with £2,000 in cash after officers mounted a covert surveillance operation to snare dealers.
Unidentified owls on the Mascarenes, the Andaman and Nicobar islands; a black, long-tailed passerine, notable for its startling rattle-like call, from Goodenough Island in the D’Entrecastaeux Archipelago; mystery African gallinules and touracos; a Kenyan long-tailed passerine with reddish undertail-coverts; an all-black Kenyan swift (Ali & Ripley 1969, Williams & Arlott 1980, Beehler 1991, Shuker 1998). Archive 2006-05-01
Has it occurred to anyone that a US military force's field positions might be covertly mapped by an opposing force with the foresight to invest in a pie-tin and an RFID reader?
In Leicestershire he would be regarded as a hunting man, while in his own district he is known as a vulpicide, for Reynard is seldom, if ever, found in his coverts. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
The mission to 'exfiltrate' them has gone down as one of the most bizarre covert operations in the agency's history. Times, Sunday Times
For example with officers with special signals intelligence abilities, intercepting the communications of others and making their own covert transmissions.
Many of our mechanisms to develop and deliver rights protection contain covert begging processes.
Now, who do you think would have access to the resources needed for a well organised covert operation like that?
For neither would Teufelsdröckh's mad daydream, here as we presume covertly intended, of levelling Society (_levelling_ it indeed with a vengeance, into one huge drowned marsh!), and so attaining the political effects of Nudity without its frigorific or other consequences, -- be thereby realised. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
He was appalled by the gifted amateurs in covert operations, who clearly were out of their league up against the ruthless KGB. Eisenhower's Pit Bull
The difficulties attaching to every theory of roofing and lighting which places the whole of an Assyrian palace under covert, has led some to suggest that the system actually adopted in the larger apartments was that _hypoethral_ one which is generally believed to have prevailed in the Greek temples, and which was undoubtedly followed in the ordinary The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
Having set up many clandestine meetings, he gained an insight into covert communication, while his conspiracy theorist tendencies make him a master of the literary double-cross.
We are making our dossier, including covert video recordings, available to police. The Sun
Vanessa covertly observes him as he sets their dinnerware at the table, while she cooks their dinner.
The bright yellow of the edge of the wings, under coverts and axillaries is seldom seen, on account of the extreme wariness of the bird. Birds of the Rockies
Rupert covertly extracted with his hoof and pastern the correct payment for Alexander's numerous orders.
They are able to infiltrate friends and family completely unsuspected, and carefully pull off this ridiculous covert operation, until things start to get hairy.
They often disguise their affiliation by wearing civilian clothes, and they often carry arms covertly to infiltrate various places.
Society, in the form of the prison matrons, punishes Billie for daring to transgress its most covert laws and moral structures concerning women, especially black women.
Enforst to seeke some covert nigh at hand, A shadic grove not farr away they spide, That promist ayde the tempest to withstand; Whose loftie trees, yclad with sommers pride, Did spred so broad, that heavens light did hide, Not perceable with power of any starr: And all within were pathes and alleies wide, With footing worne, and leading inward farr; Faire harbour that them seems; so in they entered ar. Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical)
Parents of children with Canavan's disease sued the University of Miami when they discovered that it had also covertly patented the defective ASPA gene isolated from the donated tissues of their doomed children. Harriet A. Washington: Gene Patenting Produces Profits, Not Cures
In a society that promotes homogamy, interracial couples often face overt and covert racism from society at large, as well as resistance to their unions by family and friends.
their declared and their covert objectives
We should learn to fight with enemy in an overt and covert way.
It may include dramatic strikes visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success.
It's unfortunate this place was designed to thwart covert surveillance. C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
Under coverture a married woman could not sue or be sued unless her husband was party to the suit.
The bird was black above with a white eyebrow and limited white on the wing coverts.
The Olympic stadium will be coverted from an 80,000-seater stadium during the Games, to a 60,000 capacity multi-use stadium. Tottenham and Olympic organisers to go head-to-head over naming rights
Technically, the ultimate arbiters of what constitutes covert action are the House and Senate intelligence committees, which exert a de facto veto through their control of the intelligence budget.
That this unobservant, naïve and unresourceful ditz is supposed to be a covert C.I.A. operative, assigned to trace the flow of money from Islamic charities in Marrakech to terrorist groups, is patently absurd, as is the trajectory of the plot, which abruptly moves from the subjects of house parties and romantic triangles to those of rendition and torture. An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.
Friday morning they organized a covert operation, modeled on many others over the years, to take control of Artis Hill.
One wonders whether that overt gesture really was meant to stifle covert action.
The mission to 'exfiltrate' them has gone down as one of the most bizarre covert operations in the agency's history. Times, Sunday Times
Both the cargo transfer vehicles from ESA and JAXA might also be coverted to carry human cargo to and eventually from the ISS or other LEO facilities. Tourists to ISS Two at a Time Starting 2012? | Universe Today
With regard to these wretched, horrible, bloody lumps of caramel gunge, he had constructed a whole covert, hidden, humiliating world of pretence and lies, sneaking around pharmacies and stores to find his fix, inventing a serious disease for himself to cover an addiction as compelling and overpowering as if it had been heroin that enslaved him. Portobello
My own happy band of uniformed dogsbodies are well used to newly promoted or acting sergeants arriving from such weird and wonderful departments as “covert unit”, “firearms” or “community liaison”. The Policeman's Blog
Police have been monitoring the site and using covert surveillance to trap the troublemakers.
WHITFIELD: Federal auditors blister the Bush White House over what they call covert propaganda. CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2005
British law prohibits us wiretapping ourselves, but it says nothing about covert foreign nationals setting up shop.
The flight feathers are black, and the upper tail coverts and rump area are cobalt blue.
Woodland-patterned cammies and their modern counterparts such as MultiCam leverage blend concepts while the more modern digital patterns pay homage to disruptive theories, Covert said. Military camouflage evolved from collaboration of art, science
Similarly, the law cannot be used to address the growing problem of covert filming.
Meanwhile, an advancing force, by taking advantage of terrain irregularities, can covertly penetrate the flanks and rear service areas of defending troops.
A covert of coots floats among the posts.
Investigate the crime, make the appropriate arrests and continue on with routine life, without the corrupted wars of aggression that were based on lies and fraudulant intelligence, andthat does cause the so called terrorism responses such as the diaper bomber (if it wasn't a CIA or Mossad covert operation). by He Tried to Blow Up the Plane With a Condom Bomb: Why Getting Hysterical About Airport Security Is Wrong
Seeking protection against what he called the overt and covert attempts and 'partisan and biased approach' of the petroleum ministry to intervene in a commercial dispute with RIL, Anil wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh offering to meet and explain the issues. Rediff.com
Sue Appaloosa A group of Delphi Corp. creditors claims that investors led by hedge fund Appaloosa Management "defrauded" the bankrupt auto-parts supplier by promising to invest $2.55 billion in it while "simultaneously and covertly" working to undermine its exit from Chapter 11 protection from creditors. Delphi Creditors
It's all about covert operations and leaving as little evidence and traces as possible.
The inquiry began when a whistleblower reported concerns about the crime squad's methods and culture and included a ten-month covert phase using video and listening devices. Times, Sunday Times
On the remiges the markings are quite regularly hexagonal in shape; and on the upper coverts of the tail and on the rectrices they are accompanied with numerous ferruginous blotches, some of which are irregularly scattered over the whole surface of the vane, while others, marked in the center with a blackish spot, are disposed in series along the shaft and resemble ocelli. Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882
They have been supplying covert military aid to the rebels.
Keppoch, familiarly known as Coll of the Cows, for his skill in tracking his neighbour's cattle over the wildest mountains to the most secret coverts. [ Claverhouse
Hungary, a German satellite in the war, tried, covertly, to negotiate a separate peace.
During World War II he acquired a government contract to manufacture covert and gabardine trousers.
_P.c. amoenissima_, and the black at the base of the inner webs of the outermost rectrix does not extend beyond the tip of the under tail coverts. Birds from Coahuila, Mexico
The abuse of residents in the home was confirmed by covert video surveillance.
Thereon James rose to reply in terms of elephantine eloquence, and would have gone through the whole case again had not Lady Holmhurst in despair pulled him by the sleeve and told him that he must propose her health, which he did with sincerity, lightly alluding to the fact that she was a widow by describing her as being in a "discovert condition, with all the rights and responsibilities of a 'femme sole.' Mr. Meeson's Will
Failure to select a suitable candidate because of age is often a covert form of racial and gender discrimination.
He was also the hinge and the catalyst for the largest covert operation in history - the war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
They have been supplying covert military aid to the rebels.
Yesterday we handed our dossier and the covert video recordings to the police. The Sun
It suggested that police chiefs should be stripped of their role in setting standards for covert policing. Times, Sunday Times
Secondly, it allows us to view a world beyond coverture and crime which has consumed so much scholarly energy in recent years.
St Peter was the authoritative head of the Church before Paul even coverted. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Detectives suspected Brindle of drug dealing again in the summer of 2004, and launched a covert surveillance operation in a bid to snare him.
So hunts moved into direct land management, buying and planting small pieces of rough scrub as coverts.
Thoughtful, well-reasoned covert action, lawfully reported to Congress, can be a tremendous foreign-policy instrument for a president.
We should learn to fight with enemy in an overt and covert way.

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