Sentence examples for covert practice from inspiring English sources

This year, The Associated Press defined it as "the covert practice of expelling suspects to countries known to use torture to extract information".

This results in covert practice – which leads to widespread frustration, inefficiency and stress – and housing poorly designed to meet the needs of occupants.

Following a brief, captivating slide show exposing the secret world of rooftop and back-yard beekeeping in NYC, four unassuming beekeepers, two beginners and two veterans, took to the stage to dispel some common misconceptions about bees, explaining why their covert practice is not just a hobby, but an obligation.

Under the Obama administration, the prison relaxed its covert practices a bit.

Importantly, both overt and covert retrieval practice improved memory over control groups without retrieval practice, even when feedback was not provided.

Specifically, he disapproves of what he describes as the administration's efforts to "normalize and legitimize" targeted assassinations — drone-executed and otherwise — Special Operations raids and other covert military practices that blur the battle lines of the war on terrorism.

"Blacklisting is a covert, insidious employment practice," he says.

Within the C.I.A.'s directorate of operations, its covert arm, the practice was known as "hanging out the shingle".

Also, he reasoned, they might file a petition for review in a court they thought would be friendly to their cause a covert but widespread practice known in the legal profession as "forum shopping".

The promotional pre-release of the single Suburban Knights continued the theme, alluding sharply to the covert music-industry practice of supplementing one's income by flogging unwanted promotional CDs to secondhand record shops: "Rare promo single," read the cover.

"That is nonsense, and a recurring problem with this police position in this case," said Simon McKay, author of the book Covert policing: law and practice.