Sentence examples for it a cloak of from inspiring English sources

This gives it a cloak of legitimacy.

It was a cloak of sadness, and it is still there.

Whether Communist, Ku Klux Klan or Birchers!" The crowd boos and begins a continuous cheer of "We want Barry!" "There is no place in this Republican Party for those who would infiltrate its ranks, distort its aims and convert it into a cloak of apparent respectability for a dangerous extremism.

The alternative to victory isn't just defeat, it's a cloak of invisibility.

Groups including Liberty, Amnesty and Reprieve warned that the bill is "worse than first imagined" and fear it throws a "cloak of secrecy on wrongdoing" such as rendition, torture and illegal detention.

The result was that Bush became instantly recognisable but oddly indefinable, an intriguing paradox that became one of the keys to her career's remarkable longevity: age did not wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety – instead, it became a cloak of invisibility, behind which she was able to avoid the ravages of time and trends.

If it happened behind a cloak of invisibility — well, it just might work.

"While Congress has great latitude to create statutory schemes like Fisa," he wrote, referring to the seminal 1978 surveillance law, "it may not hang a cloak of secrecy over the constitution".

"The idea that it can be under a cloak of secrecy over the UK position is just untenable".

"Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the problem with the Fisa court is that everything it does is under a cloak of secrecy," said retired FBI agent Mike German, who is now a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union.

Earlier this year, the former director general of the CBI, Richard Lambert remarked, "It never occurred to those of us who helped to launch the FTSE-100 index 27 years ago that one day it would be providing a cloak of respectability for companies that challenge the canons of corporate governance such as Vedanta".