Sentence examples for covert steps from inspiring English sources

Even so, Ian Gordon, banks analyst at Investec, said: "We still fear that, even in the absence of an outright good bank/bad bank split, more covert steps may still destroy value".

Covert action has been stepped up, too.

The Bush administration is currently considering proposals to step up covert actions in Pakistan against the Qaeda network.

Meanwhile, by keeping much of the Bush-era anti-terror architecture in place and stepping up covert warfare from Waziristan to the Horn of Africa, the president has effectively undercut the soft-on-terror arguments that Republicans used so effectively against John Kerry in 2004.

In among the personal dramas – a dangerous birth, a spoilt younger wife, unhappy step-children, covert lesbianism – the largely silent Brig busily buys a spare farmhouse and sets about converting it for his family's use, adding wings and bathrooms and whatnot, all on the rolling proceeds of the family timber firm.

Hezbollah will also be keen to step up covert operations against Jews outside of Israel, such as the July 2012 bus bombing in Bulgaria.

Nixon had been a firm supporter of Kennedy in the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion and 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis; on taking office he stepped up covert operations against Cuba and its president, Fidel Castro.

The US has stepped up its covert air war against al-Qa'ida in Yemen as the country appears to be descending into civil war and government authority disintegrates.

That means not just pushing for more serious sanctions, but also stepping up the covert campaign to disrupt Iran's nuclear facilities.

The Bush administration is concerned that Iran has stepped up its covert nuclear program, and the government is now seeking broad international support for an official finding that Tehran has violated its commitment not to produce nuclear weapons, officials said today.

In a tacit acknowledgment that the diplomatic initiatives with European and Asian allies have failed to curtail the programs, senior administration and intelligence officials say they are seeking ways to step up unspecified covert actions intended, in the words of one official, "to disrupt or delay as long as we can" Iran's efforts to develop a nuclear weapon.