Sentence examples for covert assignment from inspiring English sources

Dayna, a Southern California native, recalls meeting Bob (as he is known throughout) on a covert assignment to track Hezbollah operatives in Bosnia during the 1990s.

Giraldi, who served three years in military intelligence before joining the C.I.A., said that he was troubled by the military's expanded covert assignment.

Known as "Trigger", Mulcaire, 36, was perhaps an odd choice for such sensitive covert assignments.

Mr. Page was a veteran of WWII, serving in the Navy in the Pacific theater of operations and was involved in covert assignments in the Middle East and Central America.

When Mr. Netanyahu returned as prime minister in 2009, Mr. Dermer became his chief speechwriter and strategist, summoned frequently — and at all hours — for consultations and covert assignments on politics and foreign policy.

It was also expected to find that a failure of supervision contributed to the problems and that police chiefs should ensure undercover officers are not left on covert assignments for too long in future.

YET for all the skepticism, some of these critics applaud Mr. Rumsfeld for beating back the bureaucratic resistance to using the Pentagon's elite units in covert assignments in the campaign against terrorism.

She's in Iraq, taking covert assignments for the U.S. government.

We used covert experimental assignment to memory condition, asking subjects (N = 314; 56% female) to recall memories that were primarily positive, neutral, or negative.

** Now, that was news, given that the names, identities, and assignments of covert C.I.A. operatives (as Valerie Plame has been) are supposed to be a secret.

I knew something about pothos, and thought of the humiliating lengths to which it could drive me — the memorizing of certain boys' class schedules or bus routes, the covert shuffling of locker assignments.