Sentence examples for been covert from inspiring English sources

About 50 Tory MPs (less than a seventh of the total number) may have been covert Jacobites in 1714.

Moreover, as the help sent so far has been covert, it has necessarily been limited in quantity.

One of the biggest challenges Russia's actions have posed is that Nato is designed for conventional warfare but much of the action in Ukraine has been covert and deniable.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, the director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, and the author of "Dirty Politics" (1992), told me, "Dirty tricks have always been covert operations.

Outside analysts note that during Dr. Abbasi's brief tenure in his new job, Iran's top leaders have focused on showing that they have overcome multiple setbacks, inflicted by what they suspect to have been covert actions by the United States and Israel, and broad economic sanctions.

"The general tenor of the Perry advertising has been covert appeals to race," said Bruce Buchanan, a University of Texas government professor, echoing sentiments expressed by many Hispanic political leaders who criticized the Perry ads as playing on stereotypes of Mexican-Americans as drug dealers.

It's covert, like Claudius.

It's covert now".

It is covert speech.

I'm trying to be covert".

One spy suggested these might be covert.