Sentence examples for covert deal from inspiring English sources

"There was no overt deal, there was no covert deal, there were no nods or winks" in his dealings with Mr. Murdoch and his executives in Britain, Mr. Cameron said, only the normal engagement of an opposition politician seeking to persuade powerful media figures of the electability of his party and the rightness of its policies.

In his most animated stretch during the morning, Cameron said: "There was no overt deal for support, there was no covert deal, no nods and winks.

Palestinian spokesmen were quick to claim a "victory" for the Palestinian cause, and were at pains to insist that no covert deal had been struck with Israel over the fugitives.

If Lord Goldsmith had said the war could not be justified legally, Mr Blair said, Britain would not have participated.As for the controversial meeting with George Bush at Crawford, Texas, in April 2002, Mr Blair said he had been determined "to stand shoulder to shoulder" with America, but had made no covert deal that committed his country to the war.

According to slow travel conspiracy theorists, the appalling state of this road is attributable to a covert deal between a certain airline and the Cambodian government not to resurface the highway - thereby securing business from more anally sensitive passengers for the trip between Bangkok and Siem Reap.

Regarding "Obama's covert trade deal" (Views, June 4): The administration is casting a shadow over democracy and transparency with its assaults on journalists and whistle-blowers as it circles the wagons against the public interest.

Labour leaders charged them with indirectly colluding with the BNP and conducting covert deals.

It is a market driven by conflicts of interest, swelled by covert deals and protected by successful lobbying to prevent stock options from having to be accounted for as an expense, hurting reported earnings.

The bank financed and brokered covert arms deals, complete with full laundry service.

Some MPs have said it raises new questions about Moscow's role in Brexit, and whether the Kremlin sought to enrich leading Brexit campaigners in the run-up to the 2016 referendum via a series of covert business deals.

In a front-page article in the Zurich daily Tages Anzeiger, the paper's Washington correspondent cited United States congressional sources as saying Mrs. Whittlesey would be recalled to Washington in mid-January to answer questions from the House Foreign Affairs Committee on her possible role in the covert arms deals.