Sentence examples for veiled invitation from inspiring English sources

Ahmadinejad's recent letter to Bush was a veiled invitation to dialogue.

Sir Anthony Eden and his Foreign Secretary were warmly advised by the Opposition to abdicate, and accused of having issued something like a veiled invitation to war.

Although the Kremlin denied it, many saw the statement as a veiled invitation to begin talks on a political solution to the war.

TRIPOLI, Libya — A senior aide to one of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's sons has held secret talks in London with British authorities, a friend of the aide said Friday, as his government dismissed rebel talk of a cease-fire as a thinly veiled invitation to surrender.

While it's not illegal on its face to discuss capacity issues at industry conferences, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to interpret this week's comments as thinly veiled invitations to restrict capacity increases to keep ticket prices high.

In this sense, beauty can be a veil, an invitation to overlook the ugly that we implicitly accept by buying into the system.

Although he points out the limits of the aesthetics of design ("beauty can be a veil, an invitation to overlook the ugly that we implicitly accept by buying into the system"), he believes that his readers would get bored if he were to write about buildings from the standpoint of the environment, economics or politics.

Women are veiled.

Others wore veiled masks.

She too is veiled.

But she is veiled.