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Moreover, as the help sent so far has been covert, it has necessarily been limited in quantity.

One of the biggest challenges Russia's actions have posed is that Nato is designed for conventional warfare but much of the action in Ukraine has been covert and deniable.

"The general tenor of the Perry advertising has been covert appeals to race," said Bruce Buchanan, a University of Texas government professor, echoing sentiments expressed by many Hispanic political leaders who criticized the Perry ads as playing on stereotypes of Mexican-Americans as drug dealers.

About 50 Tory MPs (less than a seventh of the total number) may have been covert Jacobites in 1714.

Outside analysts note that during Dr. Abbasi's brief tenure in his new job, Iran's top leaders have focused on showing that they have overcome multiple setbacks, inflicted by what they suspect to have been covert actions by the United States and Israel, and broad economic sanctions.

Russia has been a covert threat for decades.

What has happened inside the Tent is extraordinary, not least because it has been virtually covert.

Beyond that, in places where slaves were imported, carnival has been a covert survival and transmission mechanism for old, African-derived rhythms.

Earlier this year the Guardian disclosed that one component of Prevent has been a covert propaganda campaign that aims to bring about "attitudinal and behavioural change" among young British Muslims.

The women belong to a nonprofit group called the Asthma Free School Zone, which, for the past year, has been holding covert stakeouts of schools around the city to aid a campaign against vehicle idling.

"Getting out of your turn to drink can be very, very difficult compared to being in Australia," said Lukas Parker, an assistant professor of marketing who has been conducting covert research for the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology's campus here.