Sentence examples for covert roles from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

She also criticised the police for dragging out the legal action by refusing to concede for two years that the father, Bob Lambert, was one of their undercover officers, even though he himself had already publicly admitted his covert role.

So convincing was he in his covert role that he quickly rose to become branch secretary of a leading anti-racist organisation that was believed to be a front for Labour's Militant tendency.

When an undercover intelligence officer is publicly identified, it can be difficult or impossible for the officer to work again in a covert role overseas, for fear of compromising any informants the officer might recruit.

The Met said it had a long-established policy of neither confirming nor denying the identity of any individual alleged to have been in a covert role, and could not comment.