Sentence examples for they were covered up from inspiring English sources

But it certainly appears that lots of people (including the regulators who issued the safety citations) knew all about these safety violations but that they were covered up from the miners who bore all the risks.

These "ghost signs," as they are called, usually survive by accident, because no one has bothered to remove them, or they were covered up for years only to be exposed during construction work.

They are part of a series of six works created for King Philip II of Spain in the 16th century and were deemed so racy they were covered up with a curtain in the presence of the ladies of the court.

It's been almost 10 months since Anne Boleyn (brilliant by Claire Foy) stood on a scaffold outside The Tower of London, but I can see her face – suddenly childlike, with both fear and pride in her eyes until they were covered up with a simple black blindfold – as clearly as if it was yesterday.

More notoriously, he did the same with the not-so-pretty Thirteen Most Wanted Men, the FBI mug-shots that he silkscreened for the facade of the New York State Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair (they were covered up by order of Commissioner Robert Moses, who was not amused when Warhol offered to substitute an image of him instead).

About 1484, and at various times in the next century, portions of the pavement were found, with the gilt lines, and figures in mosaic around the edge representing the winds and different heavenly bodies, but they were covered up again and are not visible (LS I.83, 136, 169; HJ 611, n26, and literature there cited).

When I met the Chechen president in the capital's football stadium last summer, he told me: "Women are so much more interesting when they are covered up".

Sometimes we just don't know they are there, because they're covered up by achievement, family, kids or activities.

If these loss-making positions were covered up, they might have gone further out of the money without being detected.

One day the tits are out, another they are covered up.

They would be covered up, he said.