Sentence examples for surreptitious forms from inspiring English sources

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Adding in untied aid, project finance and other surreptitious forms of export credit boosts the total to $111 billion, more than a third of the global total.

In this age of tea parties and Sean Hannity, however, citizens have become adept at spotting surreptitious forms of taxation, and, in Republican districts upstate, clerks like Frank Merola, of Rensselaer County, are staging a revolt, collecting thousands of signatures in opposition to the move, and starting Web sites like Nonewplates.com and Stopnewplates.com.

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Then a surreptitious form of editing was revealed to him.

Moreover, literature, Bolaño writes, "is a surreptitious form of violence, a passport to respectability, and can, in certain young and sensitive nations, disguise the social climber's origins".

"Literature, we are told, 'is a surreptitious form of violence.'" "In its unexpected and committedly affectless manner, Nazi Literature in the Americas testifies to the sheer power of literature; how it can emerge in an artless or sophisticated manner with a power that we would prefer to direct," Philip Hensher wrote in the Observer.

A few courts have found that certain forms of surreptitious sampling do violate the Fourth Amendment.

A group of Labour MPs wholly committed to membership formed a surreptitious ancillary force for the Tories.

In addition, allowing surreptitious surveillance of one form, even limited in scope and for a particular contingency, encourages government to expand such surveillance programs in the future.

The scene in which she worked out that Brody's nervous hand movements were some form of surreptitious code reminded you of television's potential as a medium of sound and image.

"Dear Police; Is anything of this kind surreptitious?" reads one letter dated Jan . 10 , 1983

This is a surreptitious tyranny, the kind of "soft despotism" Tocqueville warned of in 1835, a "tyranny of the majority" unique to democracy itself, as it is to every other form of mob rule.

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