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A largely covert conflict is already taking place between Iran and the United States.
Section 28 was still in force, gay parents were almost unheard of, and the only gay weddings were unofficial and largely covert.
WASHINGTON — In the midst of two unfinished major wars, the United States has quietly opened a third, largely covert front against Al Qaeda in Yemen.
Those months were marked by a largely covert paramilitary campaign against Central American leftists, a heightening of nuclear tensions with the Soviet Union, and dismay among American allies about the lurching course of American foreign policy.
The Guardian understands that the Syrian president's most implacable Arab enemies have been moving towards more direct, if still largely covert, support for the opposition but are now under heavy international pressure to hold off.
Warm and corrupt relations with the "crony capitalists" in Russia's elite have played a crucial part in this formula for staving off reform.In a way, Serbia is only the most extreme example of an unreformed communist regime that has remained in power thanks to military support (largely covert) and energy supplies (more overt) from Russia.
The intelligence operation relied largely on covert surveillance, overflights of helicopters and fixed wing aircraft, the official said, speaking on condition of not being named.
Congressional Republicans privately have argued that making such casualty totals public is a bad idea because at present, U.S. drone strikes against militants overseas are largely conducted as "covert actions" under intelligence-related legal authorizations.
The largely invisible campaign by 10,000 covert operatives has struck at Mr. Hussein's palaces, knocked out missile launchers, organized Kurdish militiamen, smashed Iraqi command headquarters, interdicted smuggled weapons from Syria, and cleared the way for the largest allied parachute landing of troops since World War II.
Then there are the issues that have been left out, notably in the concentration on local authorities, which has largely obscured the use of covert surveillance by central government departments and arms-length agencies including Defra, the NHS and the Environment Agency, all of which have been criticised in the past by the surveillance commissioner.
In among the personal dramas – a dangerous birth, a spoilt younger wife, unhappy step-children, covert lesbianism – the largely silent Brig busily buys a spare farmhouse and sets about converting it for his family's use, adding wings and bathrooms and whatnot, all on the rolling proceeds of the family timber firm.
