Sentence examples for secret operative from inspiring English sources

King has always felt like an artist first and a journalist second, but he says that now he also feels like a secret operative suddenly made vulnerable.

The novel's main character, Milo Weaver, is a secret operative with multiple identities who has grown sick of the rootlessness, duplicity and amorality of Tourism.

Gary Alt has been cursed by disgruntled, pistol-bearing Pennsylvanians as a secret operative for the antigun lobby, and denounced as a dirty "environmentalist" from Lock Haven to Good Intent.

Actually, the story finds Ms. Diaz, as June Havens, trying to figure out what is real and what is not — not unlike Audrey Hepburn opposite Cary Grant in 1963 in "Charade" — after Mr. Cruise's maddeningly unreliable secret operative, Roy Miller, takes her on a tear.

Meanwhile, there have been a flurry of private phone calls to Pakistan from Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A. director, and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, all intended to persuade the Pakistanis to release the secret operative.

By Lawrence Weschler The New Yorker, February 12 , 1996P. 26 Signed TALK story about Jan Kavan, the veteran Czech oppositionist-in-exile who returned to a hero's welcome in Prague following the Velvet Revolution of 1989, was easily elected to parliament, and a few months later was denounced as a secret operative of the Communist security services.

The demand for the C.I.A. to acknowledge the number of contractors in Pakistan was driven by the suspicion that the American spy service had slipped many such secret operatives into Pakistan in the past six months, the senior ISI official said.

After revelations about MI5's knowledge of American torture emerged in the case of Binyam Mohamed – revelations that the master of the rolls decided were embarrassing as opposed to dangerous – the state's supreme secret operatives set to work on the proposals that have become the justice and security bill.

In July 2010 when he announced the "fully independent" inquiry, David Cameron had said that to ignore the claims of wrongdoing would risk secret operatives' reputation "being tarnished".

The artist, who lately has been working on Marvel's "Silver Surfer," said "Art Ops" will follow a group of secret operatives who "free artworks from their prisons".

After all, when you broadcast your location and your opinions publicly on social media, who really cares if some top-secret operative in a cave in Utah can watch your ideas form as you type?