Kepel was speaking of the Islamic legal code, which is administered by the clergy.
They had an eight-page letter, written by an Al Qaeda operative, speaking of the imminent arrival of "engineers" — the code word for bombmakers — in Nairobi.
''It's OK to not know everything, but you should always be open to trying new things and learning something new,'' Alvarez said, speaking of the broader messages that Hola Code delivers.
Delivering his Budget speech in the House of Commons, the Chancellor, George Osborne, said: "In my maiden speech here in this House, I spoke of Alan Turing, the code-breaker who lived in my constituency, who did more than almost any other single person to win the war, and who was persecuted for his sexuality by the country he helped save.
Likewise, the IARC (2008) code spoke of the "duty to publish... in peer-reviewed scientific publications".
Ray French, the BBC broadcasting legend who was a dual-code international way back when, spoke of the importance of Eritage.
When whites realized they had to change how they spoke of race, "code words" evolved.
Perhaps for just that reason, in foreign affairs big personalities can look even bigger, and passion is spoken of in code phrases like "political will".
During the campaign he proved himself to be particularly deft at translating between the old hands of the political world, who talk about "message" and "narrative," and the quants in their 20s, who speak of "code" and "algorithms".
