It's difficult to say exactly why that happened, but Labov's idea of "covert prestige" makes intuitive sense.
It is only practical to monitor key variables, and the rest are left to inspection, operator common sense, or are covert.
Martin McCauley, meanwhile, was still making sense of the extensive covert surveillance operation that had been disclosed at his trial.
According to Liu (2011), bi-comparatives are composed of a gradable predicate, the covert comparative morpheme geng inducing the sense of superiority, a bi phrase introducing the standard of comparison, and the subject referring to the compared individual.
It aims to refrain from accounting for one type of behavior (overt) in terms of another type of behavior (covert), all the while, in some sense, leaving behavior unexplained.
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.
After more than four years, no one in Washington has a clear sense of whether the small, covert American program to help Pakistan secure its weapons and laboratories is actually working.
But Micah Zenko of the Council on Foreign Relations, who studies counterterrorism strikes, said that in the long run, a move away from the covert side of the C.I.A. might make sense, allowing Congress to discuss the strikes and their consequences far more fully in public.
"When Fallon tried to make sense of all the overt and covert activity conducted by the military in his area of responsibility, a small group in the White House leadership shut him out".
1) A noisy perception process [8], [9] transforms perceived features (in a broad sense) into subjective magnitudes, in a covert psychological space.
