Sentence examples for covert reason from inspiring English sources

There may be a covert reason for this disquietude.

But everyone knows that's a fallacious argument and that the covert reason for the opposition to public health care is a desire for private profits.

Neglecting to acknowledge the unconscious retributive impulses that motivate support for enhanced interrogation risks the American people influencing policy, and being influenced by it, for a covert reason they might otherwise reject as ethically repugnant.

"Let me then advance the offensive suggestion that this may have been one of the covert but real reasons we went looking for war.

Democracy works best when the government minimizes secrecy, including by recognizing that while the mechanics of national security operations must of course remain covert, there's no reason not to openly explain the legal basis for these operations.

would impinge on a tradition [of legislative immunity] so well grounded in history and reason by covert inclusion in the general language before us," and therefore would not address issues that would arise if Congress had undertaken to deprive state legislators of absolute immunity).

This continued, in part, because Eisenhower liked propaganda and covert operations, for the same reason that he liked nuclear weapons: they were cheaper than maintaining a standing army.

For this reason, unannounced or (initially) covert disobedience is sometimes preferable to actions undertaken publicly and with fair warning.

The kind of guy who tells a Martha he's a covert agent is looking for a reason to feel special.

Special operations and covert diplomacy were perilous for two reasons.

Afghan officials have other reasons for opposing the covert collaboration of Afghan citizens in a messy Middle East war.