Sentence examples for barely veiled attempt from inspiring English sources

But proposals to strengthen the control of the president and Parliament over the appointment of judges and prosecutors are seen by critics as a barely veiled attempt to erode the separation of powers between the executive and the judiciary.

Nissen records Harte's adolescence in New York and California, his early professional triumph in New York and his self-imposed exile in Europe, where he spent the last 24 years of his life in a barely veiled attempt to rid himself of his wife and family.

So it was especially distressing to hear Mr. Bush's barely veiled attack against Senator Barack Obama in front of Israel's Parliament.

Isn't music criticism just a veiled attempt to create an exclusive canon of what's cool?

Making people look like jerks is the barely veiled theme of two reality series beginning tonight.

And reform must be more than cosmetic change or veiled attempt to preserve the status quo.

This whole charade is a veiled attempt to bribe states that aid in dismantling teacher jobs and unions.

On Saturday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton stressed the ties that will remain — and issued what appeared to be a barely veiled warning to Iran.

This was a barely veiled threat against the National League for Democracy and its leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the commanding symbol of the pro-democracy movement.

Tony Blair was reminded of that last week, after the former Labour prime minister made some barely veiled criticisms of his successor in a magazine article.

The Jobbiks have drawn international scorn for what some critics call barely veiled anti-Semitism and language against the country's large Roma population.