Sentence examples for covert sympathy from inspiring English sources
"This exhibition shows a covert sympathy," said a ministry spokesman, Daniel Kapp, "and the finance minister decided we will not contribute".
But somehow word leaks out, and such is the power of the church in town that the adults offer only covert sympathy.
"I am frankly of the belief," he said, on the floor of the Senate, "that no amount of American military assistance in Indochina can conquer an enemy which is everywhere and at the same time nowhere, 'an enemy of the people' which has the sympathy and covert support of the people".
As a sign of how good Mohr was, there was always a debate about his sympathies -- was he a covert war lover, or was he a secret dove?
Narcissists of both the overt and covert types are very proficient at gaining the sympathy of their supplies and becoming the center of their world.
And though at every point he faces hostility directed against his queerness, it also gives him access to a covert network of contacts, bound by an often secret sympathy.
They cited Britain's covert role in past political upheavals, including the toppling in 1941 of Reza Shah Pahlavi, suspected of having pro-German sympathies during World War II, and the ouster in 1953 of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh after his government nationalized Iran's British-dominated oil industry.
Stop your covert activities.
Probably some covert rat fan.
One of the larger complications in this equation is the heavy reliance of the United States on covert partnerships and covert agreements with the Pakistani Army and intelligence service, two institutions that are at once at war with the Taliban and infused with connections to and sympathies with their enemy.
