Sentence examples for practice of secret from inspiring English sources

"Unfortunately, there are others still held, despite four federal judges' rulings that the practice of secret evidence is unconstitutional".

Feinstein defended the practice of secret seizures of citizens' phone records, Dan reports: "This is called protecting America," said Feinstein.

For example, Grassley and Ron Wyden, of Oregon, have been trying since 1997 to end the practice of secret holds, without success.

Relatives of prisoners and death penalty opponents say the practice of secret executions has withstood calls for reform because of the powerful role of shame in Japanese society.

Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Streep, and Alan Arkin are featured in "Rendition" (Oct . 12, in which a C.I.A. agent turns against the practice of secret interrogations abroad.

Democrats said they also intended to offer an amendment to the military bill that would end the practice of "secret holds" in the Senate, by which lawmakers can block a bill under the cloak of anonymity.

Joel Carlson, a white South African lawyer who used spectacular political trials to battle apartheid and expose its practices of secret detention and torture, died on Nov. 25 at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y.

And President Bush himself has expressed concern about the I.N.S.'s practice of using secret evidence.

"If elected president, Obama will end the practice of using secret prisons," Mr. Craig said.

That's a step in the right direction, but such public crowing masks the commission's practice of granting secret exemptions over the years.

Whitehall's practice of keeping "secret dossiers on public and political figures... touches a deep nerve in the British culture of liberty", he said.