They were designed to conceal a past that their designers wanted to suppress.
Though he is one of the world's most recognisable artists, his pieces are designed to conceal the hand of the artist.
Though some of its colonial architecture is designed to conceal, many of its pleasures are out in the open, in the street, right in front of your eyes.
The entire structure is designed to conceal the truth about the candidates' comparative abilities to think quickly on their feet, articulate their thoughts and demonstrate who could be trusted to function better in a crisis.
The archbishop of Canterbury has denounced David Cameron's "big society", saying that it comes across as aspirational waffle that was "designed to conceal a deeply damaging withdrawal of the state from its responsibilities to the most vulnerable".
Other Enron employees told the committee that Mr. Skilling, then Enron's president and chief executive, "both approved a transaction that was designed to conceal substantial losses" and "withheld from the board important information about that transaction".
The earliest postwar visitors to Paris remarked that skirts were fuller and longer than those in Britain and America, though the materials were poorer, rayon rather than silk, and the full skirts were designed to conceal the lack of finish - the tailoring for which French fashion was renowned.
(Surely he meant "fortunately"?) For Hastings, Corbyn's "honesty is designed to conceal the reality that much of what he states as fact is falsehood; that if his 'caring' economic policies were ever implemented, they would spell ruin for thousands of businesses, doom for enterprise and profit, and cripple the nation's taxpayers".
"Although Skilling denies it, if the account of other Enron employees is accurate, Skilling both approved a transaction that was designed to conceal substantial losses in Enron's merchant investments and withheld from the board important information about that transaction," the report says.
