Sentence examples for disguised reference from inspiring English sources

Saying that wildlife crime undermines security — a thinly disguised reference to terrorism — U.S. President Barack Obama last month announced a new Presidential Task Force on Wildlife Trafficking.

In a sign that the extremists are far from down – despite polls showing a dip in support for them – the party's spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris, who is not known for his humour, joked that they were visiting the Supreme Court "to turn ourselves in" – a thinly disguised reference to the ongoing inquiry into accusations they are a criminal organization.

He finds climate sceptics – led by a "little army of non-scientific, persuasive loony lords", as he characterises them (a barely disguised reference to the former Conservative chancellor Lord Lawson and Ukip's Lord Monckton, both of whom promote, to varying degrees, climate-sceptic views) – a frustrating ideological phenomenon.

Earlier, in a thinly disguised reference to Constellation which the Administration believes was doomed from the start NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said: "Dreams do not become reality through wishful thinking alone".

As Nemoianu later recounted, there was a disguised reference to the PNR, whose moderate leaders, ostensibly loyal to the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, still tried to achieve Austrian devolution.

Instead, he's struck a defiant pose, tweeting last month "So many enemies, so much honor," a barely disguised reference to one of Mussolini's most famous quotes, on the occasion of the dictator's birthday.

Faced with governmental restrictions, the BBC often disguised references to controversial issues.

The barely disguised references to the female realm pile up as you climb to the upper floors.

Organisers have intervened previously in "protest" performances, blocking Georgia's 2009 entry because of its thinly disguised references to the then Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, following an outbreak of hostilities between the two nations.

In a general sense, every work of literary art requires a key or clue to the artist's preoccupations (the jail in Dickens; the mysterious tyrants in Kafka, both leading back to the author's own father), but the true roman à clef is more particular in its disguised references.

Suppose that 'Petrarch' is, contrary to direct reference theorists, a disguised description, shorthand for 'The famous humanist most closely associated, in α, with the Italian Renaissance', where 'α' is a name for the actual world.