Sentence examples for combination of secrecy from inspiring English sources

This combination of secrecy and unusual landscape appealed to me so much I decided to make a film there, to create a portrait of the place.

"Now it's terrorism". Even after the overhaul of the surveillance act, the N.S.A.'s combination of secrecy, power and size continued to produce intrigue.

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young, a consistent critic of offshore detention, and who was spied upon by security guards when she visited Nauru, said the island's detention regime was run "with a shameless combination of secrecy and intimidation".

Sanctions-battered Russia is targeting the "Cyprus sandwich", where money is routed through Cyprus (for tax planning) and the British Virgin Islands (for its combination of secrecy and English law).The road to global tax transparency is not all smooth.

The US government has relied on a combination of secrecy, remoteness, legal ambiguity and the overriding imperatives of the war on terror to insist that their drone strikes are lawful, do not amount to extrajudicial killings, and minimise civilian harm in all instances.

This feat was achieved with a combination of secrecy, expertise (a Massachusetts regiment of experienced Marblehead fishermen and seamen was a key to the evacuation over water) and cooperative weather, which brought favorable winds and the sudden descent of a dense fog on Aug. 30 that magically cloaked the escape of the last of the troops.

A new and powerful combination of trade secrecy and state secrecy makes it very difficult for ordinary citizens to understand how they are being profiled.

There is the toxic combination of reflexive secrecy and the political use of secrets, as in the Scooter Libby affair.

But a powerful combination of money, secrecy and inattention has blocked progress and left the industry as compromised and dangerous as ever.

But the lethal combination of unnecessary secrecy and impenetrable management jargon has obscured the most important part of the story – that the health and care system would still need drastic reform even if it was awash with money.

The potent combination of institutional secrecy and public fascination with the secret work of the state was instrumental in fostering the culture of suspicion and uncertainty that has plagued American society ever since and, Melley argues, that would eventually find its fullest expression in postmodernism.