Sentence examples for shadowy operations from inspiring English sources

You suspect a secret cabal of Cousins of Guys Who Run Pools, who finance shadowy operations with their billions of bracket dollars.

The plot essentially revolves around a government agency trying to kill a man to keep a lid on its own shadowy operations – a tradition that harks back beyond Will Smith's semi-clothed skedaddling and to the grand splurge of paranoid thrillers of the 1970s, when films such as The Parallax View, Blow Out and The Conversation played out America's post-Watergate neuroses on the big screen.

Not long ago, a shadowy operation known as the Company set up a biotechnology facility that cranked out freakish new organisms, then set them loose on the city's streets to see what happened.

But the cable appeared to open new avenues of inquiry about the American role in Condor, a shadowy operation to stamp out the Latin American left that, among other things, dispatched death squads to kill critics at home and overseas.

ALEC is something far different, a shadowy operation that brings legislators and corporations together behind closed doors to advance private interests.

He's been aide-de-camp to General Sir Mike Jackson, and company commander in the Special Forces Support Group, one of those faintly shadowy special operations units.

He's the rare refreshing voice in a mainstream paper to recognize that civil resistance movements are not simply spontaneous eruptions of popular feeling, or the covert doings of shadowy CIA operations.

These nationalist rebel groups rely on military support from the shadowy Military Operations Council in Jordan, a coordinating body that reportedly includes the CIA, Jordanian intelligence, and other regional intelligence services.

Finally, he joins a group known by many names but most often called the Sentinel, a shadowy terrorist operation that kills other terrorists — in other words, kills members of Al Qaeda — and schemes to assassinate current "members of the administration".

Such shadowy organisations operated by zealots are not new.

If a shadowy psy-ops operation isn't allegedly programming your voting behaviour with hyper-targeted Facebook ads, bots and state-sponsored trolls are spreading partisan tweets and "the Russians" are leaking caches of incriminating political party emails in a bid to affect public opinion.