"You can live a second life under your first one," the story begins, "something functioning covertly like a subway beneath a city, a disease inside the flesh.
Governments which appear to be functioning are covertly on the verge of collapse; climate modifications herald a death knell for life; biotechnology will eliminate food, while wars and political crises ravage our planet.
Much of the money is sent covertly to churches and voluntary groups in poor countries and failed states without functioning banking systems.
She hid bottles of alcohol, tried to stop Ted from going out alone to social functions, covertly placed a tracking app on his cell phone, plead with him to get help, launched long-term, punishing silence campaigns, engaged in all-out verbal warfare, saying things she could never take back, and often in earshot of their kids.
It is well known that motor and proprioceptive signals preponderantly function in the absence of awareness and might thus covertly affect memory strength [37].
Mr. DeLorean's team had to work covertly.
Some three months later, in September 1940, they returned to work covertly in unoccupied southern, Vichy France.
"Some of this data is publicly available, some of it is purchased and some of it is acquired covertly in accordance with SIS statutory functions," according to an MI6 note.
She had to work as covertly as possible.
Shadow work is just covertly added to our daily duties.
I can then covertly mull over the morning's work.
