Sentence examples for secretly order from inspiring English sources

2. Obama established one of the most reckless precedents imaginable: that any president can secretly order and oversee the extrajudicial killing of American citizens.

(They also let you know that she was so penurious that Ibsen had to go behind her back and secretly order the expensive French fabric he coveted for the drawing room windows).

Earlier this week, the FBI finally allowed Cloudflare and CREDO Mobile to identify themselves as recipients of national security letters, which allow the agency to secretly order tech companies to hand over customer data.

In other words, for the sake of financial stability, bank regulators could secretly order the "elimination" of accounting standards.

Nixon secretly ordered that every conversation he held in the Oval Office, in the Exec.

Putin, fearing that Ukraine was turning toward Europe, secretly ordered Russian forces to enter the Crimean Peninsula.

When the communists launched another wave of attacks in South Vietnam in early 1969, Nixon secretly ordered the bombing to proceed.

But President Nixon, by secretly ordering the bombing of Cambodia, had in effect taken the entire burden of the war on his own shoulders.

After Allied landings in November 1942 in North Africa, Pétain secretly ordered Admiral Darlan, then in Algeria, to merge the French forces in Africa with those of the Allies.

The crisis -- a terrorist retaliation for an assassination secretly ordered by President Bartlet -- does more than bring "West Wing" up to date with current international events.

A federal judge subpoenaed former President Carlos Menem to answer accusations that he secretly ordered illegal arms sales to Croatia and Ecuador in the 1990's.