Sentence examples for clandestine at from inspiring English sources

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Informal markets, clandestine at first, sprang up as "coping mechanisms".

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In a pitch to Childress at a clandestine meeting at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas in July, Olympiacos impressed Childress by saying that it had scouted more than 50 of his games on television.

Instead, heads down, they stick to the clandestine business at hand, delivering messages, arguing in late-night meetings, hurtling through barely lit corridors.

For rich women this would entail a clandestine visit, at great expense, to a secret address where a discredited doctor would operate illegally, but usually successfully.

One night, the Regent of Siam, who headed his country's underground, gave a clandestine hail, at which Ripley, and Taylor were the guests of honor, in an unoccupied palace taken over for the occasion.

The bestselling illustrator, author and U2 collaborator has invited me to a clandestine meeting at a Covent Garden warehouse, which in its time has been a tailors, mechanics and a gay brothel.

Somewhere like this: She'd had a clandestine abortion at 18 weeks, not all that different from D.C.'s [another woman cited earlier in the story], something defined as absolutely legal in the United States.

Discreet compared with the towering appendages that arrived a decade later, the fins had been inspired by a clandestine look at the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, a fighter plane with twin tails, given to General Motors' designers working on the '48 models.

Although the virus would be simple to disseminate (the government in 1965 did a clandestine test at an airport in which sprayers spread mock germs), many experts say no nation possessing the virus would give it to a terrorist because of the danger of starting a global epidemic that would kill indiscriminately.

Naomi Klein Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC (Zed Books) by William Gumede: I happened to be in South Africa when Gumede's book came out, and watched as it inspired apoplectic fits of rage (and clandestine delight) at the highest reaches of the ANC government.

There lies the explanation for all the "prudence" and clandestine attempts at redistribution – although, given the tendency of globalised capitalism to widen the gap between rich and poor, it was often a case of preventing the gap becoming worse rather than actually narrowing it.

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