Sentence examples for take discreet from inspiring English sources

They would make polite contacts and then take discreet cross-holdings in each other's companies to fend off hostile bids and shore up existing management.

The city stands out for its effort to take discreet but pointed steps to promote an active Muslim community, and in doing so it has diminished the ethnic and sectarian tensions that have afflicted other parts of France, evident again during the holy month of Ramadan this summer.

Governments need to take discreet supporting and supervising steps of promoting diversity of finance, encouraging innovation of skills and technologies, and creating responsible evaluations.

Scottish Nationalist strategists have taken discreet advice from veterans of the 1995 Quebec campaign.

With the company taking discreet steps in recent weeks that could lead to a public stock offering, experts said that the value of Mr. Melancon's holdings could multiply several times more.

Traditional owners who took discreet payments of $4,000 each to meet Adani and revive a land use deal for the Carmichael mine should be axed as representatives of their group, it will be argued in the federal court.

The government has fuelled speculation that it wants to secure their release through negotiations, saying that it is taking "discreet" action and it does not want to do anything that could lead to the abductors killing them.

Along those lines, readers of various Web sites urged the 220 people who paid to get into the debate to take along discreet recording devices, like this one, to keep the candidates accountable.

Take a discreet peek at your wife's receipts and credit card statements.

When the killer question came, Dick Pound gently rocked on his seat and took a discreet breath.

Although she takes a discreet shot at "heroic action figure" colleagues for their eagerness to cover wars and disasters, she remains very much the heroic action figure on the news front, propelling herself into the next big story.