Sentence examples for veiled effort from inspiring English sources

John Signor, a spokesman for the Health Department, said the department had not seen the Housing Works report, but that it "appears to be a thinly veiled effort by Housing Works to try to generate more money for themselves".

It has called some reporting a veiled effort at restricting China's exports and creating "trade protectionism".

Critics said the measure included a thinly veiled effort to create a new avenue for unlimited secret campaign donations.

AES contends that the buyback is a thinly veiled effort to thwart its own bid for control of CANTV.

Mr. Tatary said he did not think the government's proposal was a veiled effort to exert control over the mosques.

Critics — mostly Democrats — contend that the restrictions are a veiled effort to suppress participation by legitimate voters who tend to favor their party's candidates.

The investigations, the lawsuit charges, are thinly veiled efforts to have the residents' vouchers revoked.

Democrats counter that the laws are thinly veiled efforts to reduce the number of their supporters that vote, by adding additional obstacles to black and young voters.

Many Republicans say those provisions have nothing to do with trade, and Mr. Bush has called them veiled efforts at protectionism.

Efforts by Republicans to feign interest in real reform by seeking to slow the progress of the bill or start over are nothing more than thinly veiled efforts to undermine the scope of reform and preserve the status quo.

I write, too, recognizing that some congressional claims asserting legislative prerogatives are not-so-thinly veiled efforts to undermine both the Iran deal and the president who crafted it.