Sentence examples for a veiled challenge from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON — In November 2011, President Obama stood before the Australian Parliament and issued a veiled challenge to China's ambitions in Asia: "As a Pacific nation, the United States will play a larger and long-term role in shaping this region and its future".

The meeting comes after Pelosi got under the skin of Senate Democrats on Wednesday by making a veiled challenge at a press conference.

He said he would "probably not" present himself again as a candidate — a move that appeared to be a not-so-veiled challenge to Mr. Copé to do the same.

Levy backers have labeled his primary challenge a veiled attempt to harvest some political hay for Mr. Suozzi's political ambitions, a claim Mr. Cunningham has denied.

The Chinese delegation leader, Wu Yi, a vice premier, opened her presentation with a veiled criticism of recent American legal challenges to China over what the United States asserts are export subsidies and piracy.

In a veiled reference to Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, who is expected to challenge him for the Democratic nomination, he said the attacks were an effort by his political rivals and special interests in Albany to drive him from the race.

Not long afterward, Attorney General John Ashcroft, pointedly challenging France's godless example, filed an amicus curiae on behalf of a veiled Muslim twelve-year-old who had recently been suspended from an Oklahoma elementary school.

In the short term, a solidly conservative 5 4 majority will likely defend controversial executive orders that get challenged in court like Trump's "travel ban," which Kennedy supported, albeit with a veiled warning to the president about following the Constitution.

Or a veiled threat?

Nonetheless, he still made a veiled threat.

Is this a veiled Ukip broadcast?