Sentence examples for covert confrontation from inspiring English sources

Covert confrontation itself is, of course, nothing new.

Understandably, after a year of covert meetings and emotional confrontations, Arendt left Marburg for Heidelberg, where, in Jaspers, she found a more equable teacher.

"It's not a confrontation between Ukrainians, but covert and now no longer covert aggression by the Russian Federation against our country," he added.

The British wanted to curb submarine activity, on the theory that focusing on covert submarine attacks would help avoid confrontation, whereas the French considered surface vessels and aircraft just as important.

And last October, the British, French and German foreign ministers struck a deal with Iran aimed at halting its covert nuclear weapons work and defusing a confrontation between Iran and the United States.

Our rationale for further dividing conduct disorder symptoms into two subgroups was based on factor analyses (33) showing that they can be split into aggressive symptoms (such as cruelty to people or animals, fighting, and stealing with confrontation of the victim) and covert symptoms (such as fire-setting, breaking into a building or car, and vandalism).

Non-aggressiveness seems more likely for the introvert, but might be exhibited by passive-aggressive secretive practical jokes, "trick or treat" activity, since that might not entail a direct confrontation as no one may know who did the covert behavior... Sometimes a recessive reaction (withdrawal) may seem to be due to passive-angry or paranoid feelings.

MESEBERG, Germany — Increasingly tough warnings from President Bush and his European allies have done nothing to temper Iran's stance on its nuclear program, worsening the confrontation over what American officials and others suspect is a covert Iranian plan to build an atomic bomb.

But in plotting how to raise the cost to Pakistan of its covert war in Kashmir, they remain constrained by the big unknown: how far can confrontation go before it turns nuclear?

As India and Pakistan headed toward confrontation, it quickly became clear that more was at issue than Pakistan's covert support for jihadi groups or the dispute over Kashmir.

Stop your covert activities.