Sentence examples for covert interest from inspiring English sources

The Congress for Cultural Freedom also gave the CIA the ideal front to promote its covert interest in Abstract Expressionism.

And one lively story tells of Jason's brief friendship with the town eccentric — a Belgian dowager who welcomes his covert interest in music and literature.

"Disinterested" academic research is now all too often permeated by covert interests.

Allegations have long swirled that the Russian crime don Semyon Mogilevich had covert interests in Swiss-registered RUE, which distributes gas from central Asia.

For the uninitiated, Brand uploads daily Youtube videos ("The Trews") during which he attempts to deconstruct the complex web of agendas, covert sponsorship, corporate interest and massive egos which is The Media.

Renwick said that the whole thing made her think of the rickety deals that got us into the current financial mess — "the dangers of going into a contract with someone who has covert ideas and interests" — and suggested that all the parties were at fault.

The spy and novelist share an interest in covert observation mixed with a frisson of risk.

The incident sparked Brown's interest in covert intelligence agencies, which formed the basis of his first novel, (1998).

The incident sparked Brown's interest in covert intelligence agencies, which formed the basis of his first novel, Digital Fortress (1998).

He was fascinated by journalism, and jeopardy – and highly susceptible to the romance of the secret world where the spy and journalist shared an interest in covert observation mixed with a frisson of risk.

"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.