Sentence examples for covert hand from inspiring English sources

According to Angelou, Baldwin had a "covert hand" in getting her to write the book, and advised Loomis to use "a little reverse psychology", and reported that Loomis tricked her into it by daring her: "It's just as well", he said, "because to write an autobiography as literature is just about impossible".

Dating without erections or the covert handing of a 2-for-1 voucher to a waiter at Zizzi's.

The covert bloody hand is represented here by Max Jason Patricc, deeply self-amused), a silky monster who likes to wear an American flag pin on the lapel of his pin-striped suit and, from the power he wields, appears to be running the entire country.

The premise of the reborn comic and the movie is neatly described on Vertigo's Web site (dccomics.com/vertigo, where you can read the first issue free): The Losers "served as the covert bloody hand of America until they stumbled across a C.I.A. secret they couldn't ignore".

President Obama, who continued nearly every covert program handed down by W., clearly feels tough when he talks about targeted killings, and considers drones an attractive option.

With snippets of "leaked" documents, Powerpoint presentations, and internal newsletters from the covert office in hand, the duo set out to knit together a surveillers' perspective of the world.

They study instructive hand gestures, covert lecture techniques and even a little Japanese, for the days to come when the springtime crime sprees begin.

As negative M1 responses were found during ipsilateral hand movements, covert muscular contraction was unlikely.

But the officials said they believed that the White House had concluded it would be preferable to leave covert action in the hands of the agency, to maintain a sharp legal and operational distinction between its paramilitary operations and those carried out by the military.

The report said the operation, whose planning began in April 1960, started as a classic covert action "in which the hand of the United States would not appear". The plan called for a group of exiled Cuban leaders, supported by a C.I.A. cadre, to build political momentum slowly toward toppling Mr. Castro, who had taken power 16 months earlier.

Michelle, on the other hand, described more covert ways she obtained feedback from her students in addition to explicitly asking for it, A lot of that is not done in a way that students would notice.