Sentence examples for veiled support from inspiring English sources

Several of the hundreds of lower-ranking ayatollahs in Qum were dismayed when Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a pragmatic moderate who in 2009 offered veiled support for the opposition, was disqualified by the conservative Guardian Council, insiders say.

Support for Separatists 10. (C) The Russian government has provided direct, if at times thinly veiled, support to the separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, without informing or obtaining the consent of the Georgian government.

Tefft said there was incontrovertible evidence that Moscow was giving "direct, if at times thinly veiled, support" to Georgia's two separatist regions against the wishes of the Georgian government.

Neo-Confederates -- despite trying to intimidate a white Princeton University historian merely because he mentioned the neo-Confederates' "rather thinly veiled support for white supremacy" -- do not clearly and consistently disavow the white supremacist elements of their movement.

Mr. Rafsanjani, a former president, is one of the founders of the revolution, but he has come under increasing pressure for his veiled support of the opposition.

After the emergence of Luther's doctrines, Erasmus' opinions were constantly misinterpreted as veiled support for the Lutheran heresy.

It was written for the Finnish Press Pension Celebration of 1899, a thinly veiled rally in support of freedom of the Finnish press, then largely controlled by tsarist Russia.

These entities have often been used as vehicles for political spending by way of so-called issue ads — ads that purport to be educational but are often veiled attempts to support a specific candidate or even party.

Celebrities including Yao Chen, who has over 32 million followers on Weibo, and Li Bingbing, with over 19 million, posted veiled messages of support for Southern Weekly.

Ultimately the interest rate backdrop (steep yield curve equals high profit potential) and continued government support (whether veiled or explicit) will help fuel the recovery process.

Len McCluskey, the leader of Unite, Britain's largest union, toured fringe meetings at Labour's conference making thinly veiled threats to withdraw financial support.