A congeries of pro-market and anti-regulatory doctrines adds up to a moralized view of economic and social life that systematically conceals power differences that arise from economic inequality.
But he was old enough to realise that if you were going to acquire unrivalled power in the war-torn years of Rome's late Republic, you needed to conceal that power, or at least allow people to ignore it.
Always conceal electrical power sources with protective covering," Ms. Troya tells a group of eight mothers.
The genius of this expression is that it conceals the power relationship between addressor and addressee.
Not only has our government concealed this power, but it also plans to prosecute the man who had the courage to reveal it.
The commentaries are pre-recorded on microchips and broadcast using concealed low power transmitters charged by solar panels.
His 1998 book The 48 Laws of Power ("conceal your intentions"; "crush your enemy") sold 800,000 copies and was praised by hip-hop stars including Busta Rhymes and Kanye West.
In Master of the Senate, Caro describes Lyndon Johnson as someone who longed for political power but, in the process of steadily acquiring that power, "must conceal those traits that might make others reluctant to give it to him, that might even make them refuse to give it to him".
He had the idea that my mother was concealing her powers, but that if he asked enough, she'd relent, and open the eye.
Solove says that "people want to manipulate the world around them by selective disclosure of facts about themselves… they want more power to conceal information that others might use to their disadvantage". A person's right to control their physical appearance might be the most basic form of this desire.
