Sentence examples for covert role from inspiring English sources

The museum belatedly celebrated its covert role in shortening the second world war.

Using "normal" citizens in a covert role could require giving them legal protections that may not exist right now.

Scotland Yard declined to confirm or deny anything that might identify anyone who has worked in a covert role.

The Met refused to comment on the Dines case, adding: "We neither confirm nor deny the identity of any individual alleged to have been in a covert role".

Beyoncé was almost certainly following the orders of her president and his advisers – a little like I do in my covert role for the CIA.

The strikes drew a sharp rebuke from a Pakistani government that is increasingly public in its criticism of the C.I.A.'s covert role in its country.

In the 1990's, three Federalist Society lawyers, Jerome M. Marcus, Richard W. Porter and George T. Conway, played important but covert roles in helping Paula Corbin Jones sue President Clinton for sexual harassment.

The demand from Lady Lawrence directly challenges police chiefs' resolute stance of refusing to name undercover officers on the grounds that they have an absolute and lifelong duty to protect officers who worked in covert roles.

Participants in Ulrike and Eamon Compliant, a game staged recently among the churches, palazzi, and streets of Venice, slip into covert roles, get directions from their cellphones and signal their decisions to the puppet masters running the game by removing sunglasses or sitting on a bench.

(They may also play a covert security role, giving Japan an option, subject to constitutional change, to use nuclear material for military ends).

A senior Reagan Administration official told me that he was ashamed of the covert U.S. role at Faw and during the final period of the war.