Sentence examples for making thinly from inspiring English sources

Len McCluskey, the leader of Unite, Britain's largest union, toured fringe meetings at Labour's conference making thinly veiled threats to withdraw financial support.

One vice-president, a Tutsi who used to fight for Rwanda, is making thinly veiled threats to go back to war.

In the past they have avoided admitting culpability when large numbers of civilians have died.Within hours of the blast Afghan officials were making thinly veiled insinuations against Pakistan and its Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.

In his complaint, filed Wednesday, Mr. Butz said he believed that the men had been making "thinly veiled threats that were intended to coerce or intimidate me from exercising my First Amendment rights".

The government in Kiev has accused Moscow of deliberately stirring up tensions in the region, while the Russian foreign ministry has released a series of statements complaining that the rights of Russian speakers are under threat and making thinly veiled threats of military intervention.

In the last few weeks the Saudis have lashed out aggressively against allies who have not fallen in line with their thinking, and in the past they have not been above making thinly veiled threats when they do not get their way.

Its 30-second advertisements portray Mrs. Clinton as a champion of the middle class and make thinly veiled swipes at Mr. Obama.

The report also asserted that a Swiss investment manager had made "thinly veiled" threats to a bank employee after learning that one of the bank's Madoff-linked investments could lose value.

During a lengthy and at times heated cross-examination, the government cited e-mail messages, postings and radio comments in which Mr. Turner made thinly veiled threats, boasted of his influence with his listeners and said he would be "honored" to take credit for the murder of the family of a federal judge.

On Monday Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa made thinly veiled comments with implied criticism of Australia's asylum seeker policy.

Journalists who wrote books about the 1958 59 season made thinly veiled references to the controversy in the names of their work.