How To Use Secret In A Sentence

So, did it take a row over a ban on journalists to enable him to penetrate the secret that the regime is not a model of benignity?
Fun is the secret ingredient of a lot of great companies, but 10 years of economic prosperity, a resurgent stock market, and the dawning of the dot-com have created other business priorities.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success. Henry Ward Beecher
Any calls from the press or from friends were being taken on other lines by one of Andrew McClintock's secretaries. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
There was a reason for this: unbeknown to the Reserve Bank, the major banks were working secretly and cooperatively to develop an alternative payment system that would substitute for direct debits.

He is then heard of as plotting with Garibaldi in Italy, as secretary of a legation in Japan, and in other parts of the world.
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him. Northern Rock - Pay staff a bonus with public cash.
And there lies the secret: you are none of the above and your life is a chaotic mess. Times, Sunday Times
It seems that the foreign secretary is a fast learner. Times, Sunday Times
If the worst happens, I'll start an underground blogging movement with secret servers in people's attics.
Such a seemingly innocuous observation, yet as Logan evolves from student, to writer, to secret agent, to art gallery dealer, we see how it informs a kind of amorality in his character that propels him to sleep with his college mate's girlfriend and, later, the same man's wife, marry a woman he doesn't love and then push her aside when he meets the real love of his life. SFGate: Top News Stories
He grinned at me, as if sharing a secret joke.
Drinking among the upper classes of Persian society, for example, took place at secret parties reminiscent of Greek symposia with their strictly ritualized etiquette and emphasis on poetry and discussion.
The identities of the hangmen were kept secret. Times, Sunday Times
A group of mums are using a secret weapon to encourage parents to walk their children to school - pester power.
Ryo smiled, a secretive look on his face, and hugged her.
While the report recognised that Health Secretary has made some moves to decentralise the running of health care in England, experts claim the Scottish Executive is refusing to loosen its grip on the NHS.
Cigarette smoking causes lung inflammation, which can lead to oxidative stress, emphysema, small airway fibrosis, mucus hypersecretion and progressive airflow limitation. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
During a secret speech in February 1956 (which was almost immediately leaked to the Western media) he condemned the policies of the hitherto much admired Stalin and accused him of hideous crimes.
Secret ballot enables the voters to express their free will on the candidates without any restriction.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eyes.
The Secret Service smelled out a plot to kill the President.
But the slave, perceiving that the zamorin seemed inclined to deal favourably with them, went to the cady or chief priest of the Mahometans, and told him all that he had said to the zamorin, adding that the two Christians had disclosed all their secrets to the Portuguese. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
I'd rather not talk about it too much because I don't like giving trade secrets away.
Voting will be by secret ballot.
From the association's secretary each member received a package of more or less gorgeous blanks, printed like a billhead, on handsome paper, properly ruled in columns; a bill-head worded something like this -- Life on the Mississippi
Details of how British electronic components have been found in roadside bombs were given to David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, when he visited British troops at their military compound at Lashkagar, in Helmand province, earlier this week. Religion News Roundup — Islam: Music, Chess, and Sin
The amazing thing is that it was kept secret for so long.
If that were so, there would be no need to keep its constantly moving location a secret or to hold it only when the moon is down, during that time some call the shallows of night. Beneath an opal moon
Francofolies, he is called, this special time when minstrels and jongleurs assemble to share their dreams and secrets in the tongue of Moliere.
The helpers provision the couple's fledglings with a steady supply of lerp, sugary casings secreted by plant-sucking insects. Signs of the Times
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. Joseph Addison
June 26th, 2009 6: 31 am csis violate canadians individuals civils rights. my civils rights was violated 21 years ago. nothing was done about this. csis believe that l am God. lt will take years to explain. this has been top secret for decades. l would like an investigation and compensation outside csis. CSIS Doesn’t Protect Canadians : Law is Cool
The whole secret appeal of the super hero isn't so much their buffed up bodies and superpowers, although those are nice too.
The money had been secreted in a Swiss Bank account.
Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage is on the lineup, as is outgoing Pentagon undersecretary for policy Eric Edelman and proliferation official Bob Joseph (he of the Sixteen Words). We Look To The Horizon | ATTACKERMAN
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. Joseph Addison
Field soldiers during the cold war, some hold dark secrets that could topple governments.
Terrified lest his secret be made public, and turn him into an object of scorn, he managed to sublimate these fears and transform them into the stuff of comedy.
The paper analyzes the evolution of Straits Settlements governments policy to overseas Chinese secret society.
James would only wink at him, a secretive smile gracing his handsome features…
They were so secret about everything.
The bright facades of present-day Willemstad conceal the dark secrets of offshore finance.
At other times it provokes genuine, childish delight, the wonderment of having stumbled across a secret.
Brown, a captivating and mysterious Midwesterner whose intimate slices of life are as heart-achingly beautiful as she is, will begrudgingly let listeners step into her secret hiding place filled with honest-to-goodness words and music about the human condition. Michael Bialas: Why Pieta Brown Digs the Music of Dylan, Dire Straits and her Dad
Certainly his confessions might still be reliable, along with the confessions of Abu Zubaydah and other confederates being interrogated in secret.
The darkest side of our adventurism is our global network of military prisons (authorized by the Secretary of Defense and Pentagon) where physical and mental torture are practiced even though it's known no useful information comes from it. A Review of Chalmers Johnson's Nemesis - The Last Days of the American Republic
As institutionalized censorship defines real experience by what it disallows, we assume the unseeable must be more real that our own perceptions, holding secret truths known only to higher powers.
German saboteurs plotted a wartime bombing campaign in Britain using exploding cans of processed peas, according to secret files made public for the first time today.
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
The study assesses the therapeutic effects of colostrum (the first milk secreted at the end of pregnancy - it has less albumin and lactoprotein in it than milk secreted later) on diarrhea.
This secret is bound to get out. The Sun
Her secret fear was that her performance had been clumsy and sophomoric. BABYCAKES
It would be difficult to find a man to take the place of the secretary.
This catalyzing event sets off an international promenade to uncover the secrets of the polypore, as newfound clues lead the duo through the urban landscapes of New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Barcelona and Tokyo. WN.com - Financial News
The next stop was the Dominican Republic, where Mays’s All-Stars were met by so many at the airport in Ciudad Trujillo, the team’s traveling secretary said, “They must have declared a holiday.” WILLIE MAYS
I loved my class from Jana…it was the “secret shape” inro. Polka Dot Cottage: Giddy anticipation
They crowded around me and watched me expectantly, as if I would spill my darkest, most revealing secrets.
They belong to a secret resistance army that is the nation's last defence. Times, Sunday Times
They will watch harbouring their guilty secret. Times, Sunday Times
Stuart Braithwaite mumbled into the mike for another newie, Secret Pint.
A Shandean fate overtook his body, which was taken by grave-robbers, recognized at an anatomy lecture in Cambridge, and secretly returned to its grave.
Thus, early on in my youth he clued me in to what the secret of success is: networking.
It's no secret that inner-city coaches in any sport have one of the toughest jobs in all of high school athletics.
The more secretive you get with your parents, the worst things will become.
Many secret orders sprang up, and when outsiders made interrogations of supposed members, they were answered with a statement that the person knew nothing, which is why members were called Know-Nothings.
The election of the government is carried out by secret ballot.
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.
The combination of an insulin secretagogue and an insulin sensitizer addresses both processes.
Don't tell anyone my secret.
Billionaires are usually fairly secretive about the exact amount that they're worth.
No one has ever discovered the secret recipe for army tea.
So the survivors lied and hid their guilty secret and trauma.
The belief that acid secretion declines with advancing age has been widespread.
The secret is simple: stop griping about the public sector and start viewing it as a source of business opportunities.
Melanie is thrust into an unfamiliar family full of secrets, where Uncle Phillip pulls the strings, creating a tyrannical hold over the household.
It is very serious if they were collecting and disseminating cheap political dirt from a classified document labeled ‘secret.’
If Erik's secrets cease to be Erik's secrets, it will be a bad lookout for a goodly number of the human race!
For the first time, we have the chance to examine the anatomy of a secret government operation.
For security reasons, however, the exact location of the deposits is kept secret for the time being.
He further asked: “‘Clear me of unperceived guilt’ [ibid.; i.e., of the sins I committed secretly, unperceived by others].” Bathsheba: Midrash and Aggadah.
This allowed him to grasp a string attached to the neck of a bottle secreted in a concealed hollow inside the bark. Times, Sunday Times
The secretiveness and deceptiveness of the patients made the diagnosis difficult for those who were unaware of this tendency.
Network components will support the exchange of information across all security classifications, from unclassified through Top Secret.
We love poker, says Alvarez, because we are all secretly in love with America.
The secret of a good momory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it-- We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
Petit de la Croix, a Paris, 1710, in 12mo.; a work of ten years’ labor, chiefly drawn from the Persian writers, among whom Nisavi, the secretary of Sultan Gelaleddin, has the merit and prejudices of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
And at the same time, the levels of leptin that would normally be present in the body, which is primarily secreted from the cells that make adipose - which are called adipose sites - leptin decreases. Does Sleep (Or Lack Of It) Affect Weight Loss?
His dramatic solos and stage hops also fired up the fans during "A Favor House Atlantic" and "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3" -- both 2003 opuses that often sounded like Rush homages, with drummer Chris Pennie on the beat and everywhere else, and lyrics that only a CIA cryptanalyst or college-age C&C fan could decipher. Prog rockers Coheed and Cambria take on 9:30 club in Washington
Save Our Secret Ballot amendments prevent adoption of card-check laws by other states—but the NLRB's lawsuits could sweep those protections aside as well.
The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful. Mitch Albom
It has been long known as a patrician, white-shoe firm with an air so understated and secretive that at least one former exec likened it to working at the CIA.
The problem is that at the time Roosevelt was only Assistant Secretary of the Navy, albeit a particularly pushy occupant of that office.
Foreigners planning to marry Mexicans must first obtain permission from the Secretaria de Gobernación Office of Migración, providing the same documentation as well as a fee of $1723 pesos (about $191 USD). It Takes More Than "I Do" To Marry In Mexico
The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense
My job is somewhere between a secretary and a personal assistant.
The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security for our Republic.
He proved perfectly willing to disclose the secret. Dictionary of Mind, Body and Spirit
A male sex gland about the size of a walnut, the prostate secretes a thick fluid that is a vehicle for semen ejaculated during orgasm.
Their statutory purpose was as part of the armoury available to the Home Secretary for the enforcement of immigration control. Times, Sunday Times
John Hales, clerk of the hanaper, a learned and able man, and, like all who espoused this party, a zealous protestant, had written, and secretly circulated, a book in defence of the claims of the lady Catherine, and he had also procured opinions of foreign lawyers in favor of the validity of her marriage. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
The city of Palermo was also distinguishable; and Julia, as she gazed on its glittering spires; would endeavour in imagination to depicture its beauties, while she secretly sighed for a view of that world, from which she had hitherto been secluded by the mean jealousy of the marchioness, upon whose mind the dread of rival beauty operated strongly to the prejudice of Emilia and Julia. A Sicilian Romance
I wrote to the Secretary of State, but he has not even begun to justify the Government's action.
But her confidence hides her secret heartache. The Sun
He made no secret of his ambition .
Besides, it's not healthy to harbour secret feelings for a guy.
The post-contract duty involves duty of notification, duty of giving assistance, duty of keeping secret, duty of care and duty of no competition in the same industry and so on.
Christian's works are secretive yet allusive, related yet solitary and, above all, tactile and handmade.
In a secret alliance with the Guild of Commerce, the two powers overthrew the other Guilds and left the refugees to scatter across the continent.
She's a personal assistant as distinct from a secretary.
Is the Secretary of State required by law to adopt the judicial view of the tariff?
Senator Jim Webb, the Virginia Democrat, former Navy Secretary and once and forever Marine, said unequivocally today that he was not interested in serving as Senator Barack Obama's running mate.
Santa's national secretariat is embroiled in several disputes with other Santa hospitals throughout the country.
A tautly told tale of psychological tension and chilling moral complexity, The Last Secret accelerates to a shattering conclusion as it explores the irreparable consequences of one family's crimes of the heart. The Last Secret: Summary and book reviews of The Last Secret by Mary McGarry Morris.
This applies in particular to their secretariats that are tightly controlled and steered by a handful of developed countries.
The Defense Secretary gave an upbeat assessment of the war so far.
Magda, his long-suffering wife, was the only person who knew his secret, and she is now dead.
Hypoderm - is: the cellular layer which secretes the chitinous cuticula and in this sense = epidermis: specifically applied to the lining membrane of elytral and hemelytra. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
The procedures were modeled after the Nobels, with the final selection being made by the international jury with all deliberations and voting in secret.
The general secretary opened the congress on global warming.
The oath of one of the initiated must counterbalance the most solemn asseveration of every one that is not acquainted with our holy secrets. Anne of Geierstein
The secret of wealth lieth in the letters SAVE.
Poor Gloria, " she said, although she was secretly delighted.
Then there is the newer breed of hotel: the freshly converted castles and monasteries, most of them secreted away in superb countryside. Umbria - the green heart of Italy
The foreign secretary is reported as saying that force will have to be used if diplomacy fails.
It isn't fair that you're only a secretary at Hoggatt's because no-one bothered to educate you for anything else.
The United Nations Secretary General called on all parties to show moderation.
Oreck next maintained that many of its challenged statements were nonactionable puffery: (1) the Dyson is “bulky”; (2) the Oreck vacuum emits “no puff” of dust when it is emptied; (3) the Dyson bin emptying process is “messy” and the Dyson filter is “not sanitary” and a “dirty little secret”; and (4) the XL Ultra 4120 weighs “only nine pounds,” while the weight of the DC14 is “backbreaking.” Archive 2009-03-01
We cannot divert from a quest that may hold answers to key secrets about the nature of the universal order to track down a few dozen petty brigands.
Thus Philo Judaeus may equate the hy - ponoia of a text with its latent theme, its mystery, its secret, its unexpressed, unseen, nonliteral, or simply intelligible meaning. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
He may be prosecuted for revealing secrets about the security agency.
The duodenum is important in the secretion of a number of hormones, including secretin, cholecystokinin, and enteroglucagon.
And what a sauce.The secret ingredient for the latest taste in cheese.
As a black man going undercover in whiteface, he investigates this secret world with laughable results.
Oh, and I am a chairborne ranger, and as my husband likes to say ‘secretary’.
He can't do without a secretary.
But her unassuming demeanour masked a sharp intellect and powers of observation essential for the task of a secret agent. Times, Sunday Times
They collect seeds and wild berries, and dig up secret hoards of grain.
People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them. Veronica Roth
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As financial secretary in 2007, he handed out income tax rebates and property-rate waivers, earning him the nickname of "tong tong," a term for sweets, from the local press. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
The highest GOX expression levels (1552 units of secreted protein per gram dry cell weight) were achieved with the strain K. marxianus CBS 6556, using an episomal system in which the INU1 promoter and terminator were used to drive heterologous gene expression, together with the INU1 prepro sequence, which was employed to drive secretion of the enzyme. BioMed Central - Latest articles
Objective To investigate the curative effect of tube placement and drug irrigation in the auditory tube under nasoscope in the treatment of secretory otitis media(SOM).
But they have to beware of spilling secrets in front of their old comrades.
Your love life may be unusually action-packed, from surprise reunions to secret plans for a first or second honeymoon. The Sun
the first Commerce Secretary was William C. Redfield who was appointed by Wilson
Frank would not counter-order the drink, for he loved it; he persuaded himself that he should be strictly moderate, while he was secretly determined to keep within his reach the means of excess. Frank Oldfield Lost and Found
Infected dogs also shed the virus through bodily secretions and excretions.
Samuel Otis, the first Secretary of the Senate, began the ledger in 1791.
However, when James Naughtie pressedMiliband on whether the Government are opposing a popular vote on thereferendum becauseit's one they'dlose, the Foreign Secretary dropped in this (quoting as accurately as scrambing around for a pen and paper will allow): It's so unfair!
The justice secretary is blaming her predecessors for the crisis in prisons and says that there are too few officers to run them properly. Times, Sunday Times
As soon as someone spots a gaijin playing, they'll join in and kick your butt into the middle of next Tuesday with a secret character wearing a nappy.
At the gathering, Secretary General Kofi Annan listened quietly to three and a half hours of bluntly worded counsel from a group united in its personal regard for him and support for the United Nations.
The President has accused two cabinet ministers of working secretly to undermine his position/him.
For instance, Matt argues thatThe Democratic Party is awash in secretiveness, and while there have been Kerry emails which explain a bit of polling, one is mostly kept in the dark as to the strategic direction of the campaign. Sometimes the first thought...
By Gerry Baldo 08/18/2009 Sensing the public outrage that hasn't subsided over what has been described as the ostentatious and luxurious lifestyles of President Arroyo and her entourage displayed during her New York has sent a memorandum to the Office of the Press Secretary, saying the New York Post report on the pricey dinner of President Gloria WN.com - Articles related to Developing Economies Like Egypt Can Lead the World Out of Recession
Hilary Clinton's status as an erstwhile Obama rival might undermine the traditional trump card of a secretary of state.
The supposedly cocksure and unshakeable defence secretary has come under pressure to resign over the photo scandal.
The practice caused outrage at the EU, after it was revealed the CIA had used secret prisons in Romania and Poland and airports such as Prestwick in Scotland to conduct up to 1,200 rendition flights. The Times of India
This stimulus results in the secretion of corticotropin into plasma, stimulation of corticotropin receptors in the adrenal cortex, and release of cortisol into the blood.
What truly caught his attention was not her astonishingly contrasting beauty, but her secretive ways.
Richard had a secretarial job at a nonprofit theater-development foundation.
The leak of secret or classified information is also troubling the Government.
The general had secret intelligence of the enemy.
The auctioneers organized a secret ring to control the sales.
I have instructed our foreign secretary to submit before the UN security council and the UN assembly this militarisation, which is a serious risk to to international security". Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
By the time Hiss was offering his secrets to Stalin's agents, the news about the gulags - vast concentration camps which slaughtered over 15 million innocent people - was out and beyond dispute.
Their secretive rituals and mysterious ceremonies have gone largely unchanged for centuries. Times, Sunday Times
Godolphin secretly resented the very evenness of temper he had once almost overprized. Godolphin, Complete
There's this particularly annoying position called the plough, (I secretly call it the pretzel), where you lie on your back and bring your legs up in the air and then over your head behind you. A Work in Progress
She's packed the anniversary show with comedic bloopers, behind-the-scenes secrets and a gab session with Saturday Night Live cutup Seth Meyers. Martha Stewart Celebrates a Marvelous Milestone
She spent the morning dictating letters to her secretary.
The Secretary of State mentioned in his statement the disappointment that others might feel.
But a test of Gary's saliva showed he was a strong secreter. Ajc.com - News
The secret is using magnesium oxides instead of calcium carbonates, the main ingredient in Portland cement, the most common type. The Winners, Category by Category
The boss exploded when he heard of the resignation of the secretary
The code officer served as secretary and the commissar as prosecutor.
At present, the Secretary of State grants asylum to all such claimants.
They are post office employees, factory workers, baggage handlers, nurses, secretaries, lab technicians, and teachers.
He's the undersecretary for border and transportation security.
Cyril's secret for a long and active life - treat yourself.
As she begins to pick apart the web of secrets, lies, and love affairs uncovered in the wake of her trial, Betsy suspects that her tight-lipped neighbors may know something that she has denied even to herself. Neighborhood Watch by Cammie McGovern: Book summary
Discussions are taking place in the Pentagon over how to "loosen" the restrictions imposed by the disastrous "don't ask, don't tell" policy, according to Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Feminist blogs in english » 2009 » June
In life, we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.
Walsingham assigns assistant secretary and chief intelligencer John Shakespeare to investigate the scheme and quickly concludes the Drake plot is tied to the murder of a relative of the Queen Lady Blanche Howard, whose corpse mutilated with numerous stabbings was found in a London fire. Martyr-Rory Clements « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
Good secretaries are always in demand.
The annual budget for the secretariat is approved by the board of governors in which the refurbishment was included. Times, Sunday Times
Ironically, a nation of know-nothings is secretly guided by adherents of an esoteric political tradition rooted in a grand conversation among philosophers ranging from ancient Greece to Weimar Germany.
M. le Comte's guests followed closely on the triumphant bridegroom's heels: M. le préfet, fussy and nervous, secretly delighted at the idea of affixing his official signature to such an aristocratic _contrat de mariage_ as was this between M.le. de Cambray de Brestalou and M. Victor de M.rmont, own nephew to M.rshal the duc de Raguse; M.dame la préfète, resplendent in the latest fashion from Paris, the Duc and Duchesse d'Embrun, cousins of the bride, the Vicomte de Génevois and his mother, who was Abbess of Pont Haut and godmother by proxy to Crystal de The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days
As it went on it became clear that much of the supposedly secret information disclosed by the defendants was already in the public domain. Times, Sunday Times
The Organization of American States suspended Honduras and has continued to resist efforts of Secretary of State Clinton to pressure them into readmitting Honduras. Bill Quigley: One Year Later: Honduras Resistance Strong Despite US Supported Coup
I will not let your secret out to agonise the man I love.
Youth fades;love drops;the leaves of friendship fall.A mother's secret hope out lives them all.
In 1776 Cagliostro and his wife were in London, where "Cagliostro" became a Freemason, joining a lodge connected with "The Order of Strict Observance," a secret society incorporated with Freemasonry, and which (on the Continent, at least) was concerned largely with occult subjects. Alchemy: Ancient and Modern
There are rare instances of secret and entirely human selfishness. Times, Sunday Times
Reports by the chairman, secretary and treasurer included a review of the talks, events and outings over the last 12 months, and some suggestions for the future.
That terrible festering secret of yours that burdens you, the hypocrisy of your life. The Sun
As if that's not enough to bring the whole party down, one of the politicians also carries a terrible medical secret.
I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. First Open Thread-- What's on your mind? Log in and add your comments
New Zealand's prime minister has denied that a group of Israelis caught up in the devastating Christchurch earthquake in February had links to the Israeli secret service Mossad.

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