"If the whole covert agent thing is blown away because it never really applied to begin with, why are we going through all this?" Mr. Hatch asked.
It's easy to go covert when things aren't going well, or if something is not working.
The 1975 Church Committee report, which was conducted following revelations of, among other things, covert operations to assassinate foreign leaders, was, until now, the best-known public airing of C.I.A. practices.
I had considered envying men before — I pretend to envy things like their higher incidence of ungrounded confidence and monomania, but I don't really envy those things, and I'm not sure I even believe in them — but this, the covert-baby-having thing, was the first real thing.
Google may kill the thing it coverts.
I liked having covert awareness of hidden things under his clothes.
In one of many provocative excursions into the nature of writing, Beattie proposes this idea: "Fiction is all about covert winks, deliberate stumbles, things happening off the page, allusions that function as scaffolding.
The secrets onto which Reacher stumbles this time involve, among other things, a covert compound the size of 300 football fields, where demolished cars are stacked 10 stories high.
Musharraf also agreed to coöperate with the C.I.A. — among other things, joint covert teams were established to hunt down terrorist fugitives — and he ordered Pakistani Army and paramilitary troops to set up a blocking force along the Pakistani-Afghan border, to capture Al Qaeda and Taliban members if they tried to flee east from Afghanistan.
Exceedingly low test-retest and internal reliabilities were observed for Thought Problems which contains items dealing the with child's covert behaviour (eg Hears things, Has strange ideas).
