Sentence examples for may be shadowy from inspiring English sources

While our knowledge of Chinese history may be shadowy in places, it seems unlikely that our understanding of all these landmarks should be so far out.

Their disappearances have prompted fears that mainland Chinese authorities may be using shadowy tactics that erode the "one country, two systems" formula under which Hong Kong has been governed since its return to China from British rule in 1997.

The disappearances have prompted fears that mainland Chinese authorities may be using shadowy tactics that erode the one country, two systems formula under which Hong Kong has been governed since its return to China from British rule in 1997.

He may be a shadowy figure, but the organisation he leads is pulling in thousands of new recruits and has become one of the most cohesive militias in the Middle East, our correspondent adds.

She now plans to replace the SI with a new agency, but there are fears that the reformed set-up may be no more accountable.These shadowy powers of state have no place in a democratic Latin America.

Tending the dead of China's later wars may be trickier; the history is deliberately shadowy.

Now it appears that a shadowy Indonesian tycoon may be making a play for at least the white pepper market.

And like in Egypt there may be real danger elsewhere – especially from shadowy Salafist groups some fear are being exploited by old regime provocateurs.

Furthermore, in much the way that journalists have begun to ask whether shadowy corporate interests may be sponsoring today's Tea Party, historians have long speculated that merchants may have instigated early unrest to protect smuggling profits from British regulators — that the start of the Revolution may have been Astroturfed.

Without some brilliant, short-term improvisation -- in place of shadowy strategizing -- believing may be enough, in the end, to make it so.

The arrests on Friday seemed certain to feed calls for the resignation of Mr. Ozawa, a shadowy political operator who may be the most controversial and powerful figure in the new government.