Sentence examples for covertly encouraged from inspiring English sources

As elsewhere, Islamic activism was covertly encouraged in the 1970s as a barrier against the left.

His regime was applauded by the west for its "suppression of communism", a policy the US covertly encouraged.

Black protesters risked injury or death from club-wielding cops, state troopers and the various good ol' boys and murderous Dixie nostalgists whose violence the politicians covertly encouraged.

Now it seems other models – dismantling some counties with a mix of district amalgamations – are being covertly encouraged to create a new breed of unitary councils.

If true, this marks a change from the past, when the military and the Inter-Services Intelligence (Ispy spy agency covertly encouraged political proxies to further their own agendas.

But mounting Arab and western anxiety about terrorism spreading to Europe may end up benefiting Assad, who has deftly presented himself as the best defence against extremism – even while he has, apparently, covertly encouraged it.

That sentence was spring-loaded, given the history of Latin American coups tacitly encouraged or covertly supported by the United States.

Finally, civil strife or defeat in war is often accompanied by "megapogroms," local riots by armed gangs and mobs that appear to morph, spontaneously, into large campaigns of ethnic cleansing, but are, in fact, condoned, covertly, or organized and encouraged, by the government in power.

Encouraged by Sadat's acquiescent government, which covertly provided them with arms so that they could defend themselves against any attacks by Marxists and Nasserites, the Islamic Group, which was uncompromising in its militancy, radicalized most of Egypt's universities.

Not encouraged.

Reddit has come under fire for harboring a forum that encourages people to covertly photograph women on the street and upload the images to the site for others to ogle and comment on.