The phrase "covert violence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe acts of violence that are hidden or not openly acknowledged, often in contexts related to conflict, crime, or social issues.
Example: "The report highlighted the issue of covert violence in urban areas, where attacks often go unreported."
Alternatives: "hidden aggression" or "secretive violence."
Simultaneously, influential neoconservative US officials saw an opportunity here to pursue hair-brained ambitions to re-engineer the region through the de facto ethno-sectarian partition of Iraq into three autonomous cantons: a vision that could not be achieved without considerable covert violence.
Although there is no consensus within the literature on a universal definition of relational violence, the term is often used interchangeably with social violence, covert violence, indirect violence, and instrumental violence [ 23].
Instead, they balance the covert threat of violence with the beauty of a promised land.
This definition can be considered to cover both overt as well as covert forms of violence.
Once again, the win went to the bellowing paranoids on the right who see any proposal to deal with gun violence as a covert attempt to disarm law-abiding citizens.
In the sixty-one years of their existence, the governments of India and Pakistan have periodically funded covert campaigns of guerrilla or terrorist violence on each other's soil; as a result, each now holds unshakable assumptions about the other's proclivity for dirty tricks.
He clarifies what our public discourse works so hard to hide, deny, or ignore: that our national-security leadership is intoxicated with the comic-book romance of violence, especially of the covert-ops variety.
For many senior Pakistani spies, the man sitting in the jail cell represented solid proof of their suspicions that the C.I.A. had sent a vast secret army to Pakistan, men who sowed chaos and violence as part of the covert American war in the country.
It's covert and comes from downplaying existing racial violence.
"We also have extreme rates of under education and under employment, in addition to high rates of drug and alcohol addiction, domestic violence, suicide, and poor health," Covert noted.
Dobson and Norris took the stand in their own defence, after a covert video exposing their racism and propensity for violence was played to the jury.
