Sentence examples for if not clandestine from inspiring English sources
As the lunch rolled on, I discovered the two pairs of men I was seated between included Michelin reviewers and members of the Club des Cent, a distinguished, if not clandestine, organization of 100 French gastronomes.
However, the report raises concerns over the "sometimes secretive, if not clandestine" way the Brotherhood operated in the recent past and noted it sought to shape – by stealth – Muslim thinking through three UK mainstream organisations: the Muslim Association of Britain, the Muslim Council of Britain and the Islamic Society of Britain, which has now disowned its roots.
The indictment also suggests that the accused gangsters — men with nicknames like Papa Smurf, Tony Lodi and Muzzy — were not reluctant to use some creative, if not particularly clandestine, approaches.
He has been making the case for Kurdish rights in Turkey in surreptitiously arranged, if not exactly clandestine, interviews from his mountainous redoubt, irritating officials on both sides of the border who would rather see him fade into obscurity.
Their organisation was well-known, not clandestine.
But it is manifestly not clandestine data manipulation.
These are not clandestine computers hidden in basements guarded by mobsters.
Mr. Blix said the missiles "were declared" and that "they were not clandestine".
This has been with the full knowledge of authorities and was not clandestine".
But it is not clandestine data manipulation, or, as claimed by Palin and Inhofe, a trick to hide global cooling.
