Sentence examples for secretive actions from inspiring English sources

More people are victimised by the unaccountable, secretive actions of the western nations – the US and UK most notably – than all those victimised by Islamicists.

Faced with new revelations about the surveillance state, Chomsky might engage in data mining, juxtaposing our politicians' lofty statements about freedom against their secretive actions, thereby revealing their utter hypocrisy.

The Federal Reserve, as we know, is now under uncomfortably high public scrutiny and its hitherto secretive actions are being subject to the greatest degree of Congressional and press scrutiny that the institution has experienced in its 96-year history.

Your spouse needs to know that (a) you aren't talking or complaining about them, (b) you will be open with your spouse about what you say and do with your platonic friend, (c) there will be no secretive actions, and (d) you will not let the platonic friend supplant the relationship you have with your spouse.

And with deep-pocketed Republican donors sitting on the sidelines, the candidates are increasingly reliant on a small group of supporters funneling millions to secretive political action committees to keep them in the race, Nicholas Confessore writes.

But another Republican aide, who spoke on the condition that he not be identified, said the chairman wanted only to end redundant paperwork and would keep intact the core requirements that secretive political action committees report to the federal government.

It's interesting that the "know nothing" moniker arose because members were instructed to respond with "I know nothing," when asked by reporters and others about the group's secretive meetings and actions.

She reverses the normal scale of female experience, so breastfeeding – too often a secretive and furtive action – is painted as a huge, cosmic activity.

The delay and subsequent hard feelings have led to suggestions that there has been a secretive judicial job action to pressure the Legislature to give judges more money.

TOKYO — North Korea's artillery bombardment of a South Korean island on Tuesday follows what analysts call a pattern of aggressive actions by the secretive government when it feels under stress or threatened.

Re "Two-Front Insurgency" (column, April 7): What bolsters the morale of the insurgents isn't the legitimate questions by Americans about our administration's failures, which a free democracy enables and encourages, but the unilateral actions of a secretive, deceptive, partisan, ill-prepared government running the largest and most powerful country on the planet.