"The general tenor of the Perry advertising has been covert appeals to race," said Bruce Buchanan, a University of Texas government professor, echoing sentiments expressed by many Hispanic political leaders who criticized the Perry ads as playing on stereotypes of Mexican-Americans as drug dealers.
The policy, known as comprehensive review, has been criticized as a covert way of reviving race as a factor in admissions, which is banned by state law.
Probably some covert rat fan.
In what the state police called their largest covert operation involving illegal street racing on Long Island, the police issued 91 vehicle and traffic summonses for offenses ranging from broken taillights to speeding.
His enthusiasm for sailing provided material for "Boca Grande" (1974), in which the skipper of a boat competing in a Nassau-Jamaica yacht race carries out a covert mission in Cuba.
When you start the direct talks Mr. Obama promised, are you prepared to continue Mr. Bush's covert programs to undermine Iran's race to get a bomb, or to repeat Mr. Obama's threat to consider an embargo on refined gasoline into the country?
While overt discrimination based on race and sex is no longer culturally condoned, both covert bias and institutional inertia perpetuate inequality.
Politicians' contributions to their own pensions have been sharply increased lately and their pay restrained for years – hence the expenses scandal, seen as a covert means of compensation as other senior public sector workers raced ahead – so it's a barn door of a target which a child could hit, as Marina Hyde pointed out on Saturday.
The story-driving decisions made by the characters, meanwhile, are almost all driven by overt racism of the sort that mixed-race families would have faced then rather than the covert and coded bigotry that is more common now.
"Sneak out" is a phrase that connotes covert production of bomb fuel, while "break out" is used to describe a race for a bomb.
