Sentence examples for a covert reason from inspiring English sources

There may be a covert reason for this disquietude.

Neglecting to acknowledge the unconscious retributive impulses that motivate support for enhanced interrogation risks the American people influencing policy, and being influenced by it, for a covert reason they might otherwise reject as ethically repugnant.

But everyone knows that's a fallacious argument and that the covert reason for the opposition to public health care is a desire for private profits.

The kind of guy who tells a Martha he's a covert agent is looking for a reason to feel special.

Nevertheless, I found that one reason that governments choose a covert intervention is out of the fear of a backlash, should their actions be revealed.

Moreover, if Rove did not know whether or not Plame was a covert agent, as he claims, that is all the more reason he should not have revealed her to Matt Cooper and possibly others.

One of the reasons for the rules is to prevent an investor from mounting a covert takeover effort; another is so that average investors know where big wheels are moving their money.

For that reason, President Barack Obama ordered in 2014 that the traditional missile defenses be supplemented by a covert program intended to sabotage launches before they happen.

Not a covert touch.

(He is not a covert operative).

Act like a covert revolutionary.