Sentence examples for stealth effort from inspiring English sources

Which led to the speculation that ABC fully intended a kind of stealth effort against "Survivor" at a time when CBS could not alter its starting date.

BERLIN, Oct. 7 -- As part of its stealth effort to evade U.N. sanctions and rebuild its military, the Iraqi government under President Saddam Hussein found that it had no shortage of people around the world who were willing to help.

Is this strategic review a stealth effort?

If, in other words, it wasn't a stealth effort to slash benefits disguised as merely a paperwork-saving reform.

If TTIP is blocked, however, it looks more likely to be blocked on the European side, where the deal is seen as a stealth effort to impose weaker American controls over corporate excess on a European Union whose member nations are still far ahead of the U.S. when it comes to health, safety, environment and labor protections.

He has broken stories including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's foreign funding, the attendance of Supreme Court Justices at secretive political fundraisers, and the stealth efforts by lobbyists to orchestrate and control the Tea Party.

It takes time, stealth and effort to overcome mistrust and build relationships, and throughout, Young's tact and self-effacement —the un-Holbrooke school of diplomacy — help keep hostilities in check.

When he tells me to take a clean, well-composed portrait of a seagull I think "easy!" but it seems to require the same stealth and effort as photographing a lion in the Sahara.

Gillespie has led something of a stealth campaign this fall, issuing few of the advisories that other campaigns use to let TV stations, newspapers and other media outlets cover their efforts to win votes.

And a film on the roof of the school documents how, over the course of a year, UX, an underground Parisian collective known for its stealth restoration efforts, secretly repaired the Pantheon's long-broken clock — and were promptly, and unsuccessfully, sued by the government.

These initiatives were "greeted with polite contempt", Sakwa writes, regarded as "little more than a cover for the establishment of a 'Greater Russia' by stealth" and an effort to "drive a wedge" between North America and western Europe.