Sentence examples for shadowy strategy from inspiring English sources

In recent months, instead of wrecking the elections, the group embarked on a shadowy strategy to influence them by giving tacit approval to some municipal candidates while opposing others.

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Left unsaid was another central element of Mr. Obama's war-fighting strategy: a shadowy string of drone bases, where the United States sends out unmanned aircraft to hunt suspected terrorists like Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born Qaeda propagandist, who was killed last month in Yemen.

Scores of local police chiefs and state officials along the East Coast have turned to the institute exchange crucial information and strategies in the shadowy world of international terrorism.

A German vacationing in Spain plays a World War II strategy game with a shadowy local, a burn victim known as "El Quemado," in this mesmerizing novel, which was written in 1989 and found among Bolaño's papers after his death.

" The move represents a dramatic change of strategy for the mainstream Iraqi insurgency, whose leadership has remained shadowy and has largely restricted communication with the world to brief statements on the internet and Arabic media.

The shadowy nature of Boko Haram as well as its resilience made it difficult to craft an effective strategy to end the group's campaign of terror.

Such internal strategy data was only available about two of the organisations, since the third is notoriously shadowy, and closely guards all goings on at its spaceship-like headquarters: not GCHQ but Apple, of course, the Cupertino headquarters of which are shown as sleek, black and as impenetrable as its products.

"So shadowy.

Everything was grey and shadowy.

He is a shadowy figure.