Sentence examples for highly clandestine from inspiring English sources

Wikipedia defines "black operations" as "covert operation[s] typically involving activities that are highly clandestine and, often, outside of standard military protocol".

William Perry, who was former President Bill Clinton's defense secretary, said it was unrealistic to expect the Pentagon to give up control of some $32 billion -- particularly when it is paying for highly sophisticated and clandestine weaponry -- without an Olympian struggle.

Despite the details released by the White House – a highly unusual move for a clandestine "counterterrorism operation" – important questions remain.

It can be difficult to get traction on something truly, explosively clandestine in our highly disclosing world, which may be one reason O'Farrell has set her latest novel, "Instructions for a Heatwave," in 1976 London, a time and place more conducive to the keeping of secrets.

Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former C.I.A. analyst and writer, says, "The C.I.A.'s clandestine service, a highly bureaucratic, sclerotic institution that still remains most at home on the diplomatic cocktail circuit overseas, is structurally, culturally, and linguistically ill-prepared to undertake the long-term, unconventional work needed to place an agent inside a critical weapons facility".

Mrs. Clinton played down suspicions, long held by some in the Bush administration, that North Korea has a clandestine program to produce highly enriched uranium.

Additional data have been gathered, intelligence sources told me, by high-tech (and highly classified) radioactivity-detection devices that clandestine American and Israeli agents placed near suspected nuclear-weapons facilities inside Iran in the past year or so.

Senior Bush administration officials also say that they would be giving in to blackmail by offering new incentives and that North Korea's clandestine efforts to produce highly enriched uranium demonstrate that the Clinton negotiating approach does not work.

These now-displaced women may or may not be counted, but they are highly likely to be engaged in clandestine transactional sex, as suggested by our qualitative research.

For the first time today Mr. Bush talked publicly about the difference between the challenge posed by Iraq and by North Korea, which told American officials two weeks ago that it had restarted a clandestine nuclear weapons program using highly enriched uranium.

The readings, picked up by highly sensitive detectors set up to monitor clandestine nuclear blasts, were the first solid evidence of the leading edge of a long radioactive plume that has drifted slowly across the Pacific with the prevailing winds over the past week and has now reached the continental United States.