Or they might agree to do the work, but not without a covert jibe".
In any event, Mr. Saleh might not have been able to afford them, administration officials acknowledge, without some covert American assistance.
Kelvin and [deputy editor] Neil [Wallis] knew that the book could not have been written without the covert co-operation of serving detectives and customs officers.
They could not even supply their own provisions and ammunition without the covert help of Dutch merchants, who, in their turn, argued that this trade with the mortal enemy brought in the money needed to pay for the troops fighting this enemy.
Simultaneously, influential neoconservative US officials saw an opportunity here to pursue hair-brained ambitions to re-engineer the region through the de facto ethno-sectarian partition of Iraq into three autonomous cantons: a vision that could not be achieved without considerable covert violence.
Even without a covert effort to destabilize Iran, Iranian leaders would likely see an end to the nuclear agreement as part of an effort to ultimately topple them – a perception that would enhance the attractiveness of the North Korean model.
At its simplest, all clinicians in diabetes are aware of people (some on lifestyle alone, but some even on insulin therapy) who have A1C levels in the normal range, and certainly below target levels, without any special effort or lifestyle restriction and without overt or covert hypoglycemia.
Michael Sechrist, a researcher who has studied the security of undersea cables, said: "The risk here is that any country could cause damage to the system and do it in a way that is completely covert, without having a warship with a cable-cutting equipment right in the area.
Recent evidence indicates that reflexive shifts in spatial attention with eye movements (overt orienting) and without eye movements (covert orienting) can be dissociated [J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform., in press].
The legal questions about the Pentagon's right to conduct covert operations without informing Congress have not been resolved.
