Sentence examples for covert purchases from inspiring English sources

The documents indicate that the N.S.A. spent $25 million on "covert purchases of software vulnerabilities".

We use pretext interviews on a number of investigations to extract information and/or make covert purchases of stolen property, in a sense, all undercover operations.

Large sums allegedly go to finance covert purchases of Polly Peck shares by Nadir's private businesses, taking his stake in the business well beyond the disclosed 25% interest.

After hiring lawyers to investigate, he uncovered a web of misinformation, including incorrectly translated agreements and covert purchases of equipment.

After hiring lawyers to investigate, they claim that they uncovered a web of misinformation, including incorrectly translated agreements and covert purchases of equipment at COER. "The fraud they committed was so brazen," charges Leonhardt, who bailed out of his contract after spending just one summer in Guangzhou.

The collector went to the outlet posing as a normal costumer (covert collection) and purchased the drugs.

Examples of negative sanctions include the following: refusing to export (embargoes), refusing to import (boycotts), covert refusals to trade (blacklists), purchases intended to keep goods out of the hands of target countries (preclusive buying), deprivation of ownership (expropriation), punitive taxation, aid suspensions, and asset freezes.

The trip will push her to formalize the separation, though this part of the mission must remain covert: "If Isabella knew that she had purchased a plane ticket in order for me to ask her son for a divorce, I suppose she would have killed me, actually slain me then and there.

Product advertisement and purchase options were overtly displayed on some sites while others used covert hypertext links to lead the reader to a purchasing opportunity such as feeding products, breastpumps, financial services, or other more general baby products.

When we turned down their overt purchase order, the K.G.B. sent a covert agent into a Canadian company to steal the software; tipped off by Farewell, we added what geeks call a "Trojan Horse" to the pirated product.

Toby Maloney, an owner of another such bar, the Violet Hour in Chicago, once worked at a restaurant where the owners' purchase of a blender touched off a covert rebellion.