Sentence examples for giving covert from inspiring English sources
Turkey now has good relations with the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraqi Kurdistan, which it once demonised for giving covert sanctuary to the PKK guerrillas in the inaccessible Qandil Mountains on the Iranian border.
Probably there is as much cynicism as naivety at work here since their intelligence services will have told them that Turkey has long been giving covert support to Isis and al-Nusra, the most important element of which was not closing the border.
Pakistan has given covert support to militants in Kashmir for the past 10 years.
In amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Congress gave covert agencies greater leeway to monitor international communications without direct court oversight.
One of his first challenges was to swat aside a magazine claim that, before the fall of communism, he had given covert assistance to the secret service, reporting on fellow players and countries visited.
Examples of interference by the federation highlighted by the review included answering questions on behalf of officers and asking inappropriate questions that gave covert assistance to the officers being interviewed.
The government has also been rattled by the Guardian's revelations that Chris Heathe-Harris, ToryTory MP who orchestrated a letter by more than 100 MPs to the prime minister earlier this year calling for dramatic cuts to subsidies for onshore wind, had given covert support to a rival candidate in the Corby byelection because of his antipathy to windfarms.
On the royalist side Jordan and Saudi Arabia supplied military aid, and Britain gave covert support, while the republicans were supported by Egypt and allegedly received warplanes from the Soviet Union.
ORIGINAL STORY: Former British prime minister Tony Blair offered to give covert advice to Rupert Murdoch and his embattled deputies during the height of the phone hacking scandal, it emerged on Wednesday.
The undercover policeman and "environmental activist" Mark Kennedy is giving us covert operatives a bad name.
Given the covert nature of terrorism, the sober task of foiling a suicide bombing or an anthrax strike may fall on the shoulders of everyday American workers.
