Sentence examples for a disguised effort from inspiring English sources

But he said he feared they represented a disguised effort "to get a list of people to take down later".

The Alabama Legislature late Tuesday adopted stringent new regulations for abortion clinics that supporters called a step to protect women but that others called medically unnecessary and a disguised effort to force the closing of the state's five abortion clinics.

India was among the developing countries that cried foul when the administration pushed hard to link new trade talks with labor rights, a position many developing countries viewed as a disguised effort to protect workers in wealthy countries from competition.

Yet by drawing our attention to every aspect of these maps' self-presentation, from place names to titles and legends, the authors reveal the way that each piece of information collaborates in a disguised effort to mount an argument about reality.

The Chinese leader, who rose to power in 2012 and has quickly consolidated control, emphasized that fighting corruption was a key task faced by his administration, and he pushed back against assertions that his widespread anti-graft campaign that has seen the ouster and punishment of tens of thousands of officials was a disguised effort to root out political enemies.

But many residents see the idea of a greenway as a thinly disguised effort to close Park Row as a thoroughfare for good.

In this context, President Vladimir Putin's destabilisation of Ukraine cannot be separated from his dream of leading a "Eurasian Union" – a thinly disguised effort to recreate the former Soviet Union.

Mr. Ross goes further, saying that one of the charter applications -- for the proposed Renaissance Academy charter school -- is a thinly disguised effort by a group of wealthy and mostly white parents to create their own elite school within the mostly black district.

Short-sellers say that plan is little more a thinly disguised effort to provoke a short squeeze.

Little wonder, then, that the party's Youth League President, Julius Malema, recently called Zuma a dictator: It was a thinly disguised effort to discredit him ahead of the leadership conference, and unsurprisingly resulted in Malema's suspension – a harsh move indicative of the nature of the tensions around the conferences.

Several Central American governments also opposed the plan: Luis Molina, a diplomat representing Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, characterized the plans as a thinly disguised effort to make Central America the depository for "a plague of which the United States desired to rid itself".