Sentence examples for covert conflict from inspiring English sources

A largely covert conflict is already taking place between Iran and the United States.

Mr. Gerecht said he was inclined to accept the administration's account of the Washington murder plot, which he sees as a bold escalation of hostilities in the covert conflict.

MI5 was a key player in Britain's bloody war against the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland, but with that complex, often covert, conflict still fresh in memory, the account given here is tantalizingly spare on operational details.

His administration also threw money, guns, and training ― sometimes illegally ― at the brutal Nicaraguan Contras in another Cold War covert conflict in which about 100,000 civilians died. .

Although withdrawal is not equivalent to covert conflict, it is possible that withdrawal often involves covert conflict.

Moreover, covert conflict may prevent resolution that reduces child stress (Cummings et al. 1991).

Overt and covert conflicts would then emerge if the woman has different views with her mother-in-law and these conflicts can impose significant distress in the woman.

Looking back, I think Mom was more worried about the covert racial conflict in the American South than she had been about the overt military conflict in the Far East.

India's covert armed conflict in Pakistan via these terrorist factions is what has surfaced and is being talked about on various platforms, especially after the Peshawar attack.

In an empirical study exploring this hypothesis in two large samples of children aged 9 15, Buehler et al. (1998) found an association between child-rated covert parental conflict and internalizing problems in both samples.

"The nation's highest law enforcement officer should be above reproach, but Acting Attorney General Whitaker's financial disclosures raise potential concerns of both dishonesty and covert partisan conflicts of interest," Austin Evers, American Oversight's executive director, said in a statement.