Sentence examples for clandestine power from inspiring English sources

They've got together again, as producer (Coppola) and director (De Niro making his second credited feature film) in The Good Shepherd to examine the roots and progress of another influential secret organisation from a very different area of American life that also wields clandestine power and believes itself to be acting for the public good.

The writer reasoned that if Britain could not be a superpower in the post-World War II world, it could be a clandestine power.

But if Britain could not be a superpower, if its proud empire was being fast divested -- or was rapidly divesting itself -- it could be a clandestine power, a secret power, a power of expertise and daring.

There is not a superpower, but there is a clandestine power of expertise and daring, and, even more to the point, a soft power of cultural leadership and delight.

Many suspect him of holding out for a deal with Mr Gadea, or indeed with Mr Ortega, with whom he has made clandestine power-sharing pacts in the past.Mr Gadea is still light on policy, beyond denouncing Mr Ortega's constitutional manoeuvres.

This global presence -- in about 60% of the world's nations and far larger than previously acknowledged -- provides striking new evidence of a rising clandestine Pentagon power elite waging a secret war in all corners of the world.

It's a cynical, clandestine view of power and motivation that seems pretty suitable for our current political climate.

Their descriptions of power struggles, clandestine operations and corruption have driven Mr. Milosevic into furious tirades.

It will be interesting to see whether Paul Lohman's clandestine rage has the power to disconcert a nation already bathed in the blood of mass shootings.

Since Mr. Ch z rose to power 11 years ago, clandestine movements and relocations of militants from Mexico and Cuba to Venezuela have increased, and there are now dozens of ETA militants living in Venezuela, according to Mr. El?and other Spanish intelligence specialists.

We find out pretty soon: Worst of all, the explanation that Sullivan adopts for almost everything that he does not like about America's foreign policy, and America's wars, and America's role in the world that it is all the result of the clandestine and cunningly organized power of a single and small ethnic group—has a provenance that should disgust all thinking people.