Covert Sentence Examples

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  • They generally associate in herds, and spend most of the day in covert on the banks, feeding in the evening and morning.

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  • Still other predators use their covert information to stalk the kids.

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  • Disclosing the identity of a covert intelligence operative is a violation of federal law punishable by up to 10 years in jail.

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  • Social attitudes towards homosexuality and bisexuality have varied over the centuries, from complete rejection, or homophobia, through covert acceptance, to complete normalization, with many degrees in between.

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  • Thus an individual with a covert bacteriuria has a life expectancy of less than 3 years.

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  • Mike is available only by phone, and organizes the rebellion into covert cells, and plans their strategies.

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  • But its function is to give news and to expose malpractice or covert dealing where it exists.

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  • It brings spiritual poverty, obesity, social isolation, covert competition, satiation, heartlessness and periodic nervous breakdown.

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  • It discusses wiretapping and the use of snowball sampling when monitoring covert networks.

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  • The film tells of a covert hit squad put together by Israeli intelligence to wreak revenge.

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  • As landowners were required to covert to the Catholicism, the Catholic Church also recorded the nuptials.

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  • Common behaviors include suspicion, questioning and overt or covert accusations.

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  • It has a strap that zips to covert it from a shoulder purse to a backpack.

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  • With mid leg zippers, these pants easily covert from full length to knee length shorts.

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  • Water-deer frequent the neighbourhood of the large Chinese rivers where they crouch amid the reeds and grass in such a manner as to be invisible, even when not completely concealed by the covert.

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  • Putting aside the innocuous title, the United States was now fully in the business of covert political operations.

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  • She employs as her sidekick " the world's top female bodyguard and covert operator " .

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  • And high visibility police patrols, covert tactics and warning posters are being used at other venues which have suffered vehicle break-ins.

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  • These patterns are the often covert forces behind the phenomena described.

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  • What parents want is community schools, with open access and not covert selection.

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  • Many farmers welcome foxhounds, as they themselves are interested in seeing hounds working in and out of covert.

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  • Manipulation always appears in the context of communication and the manipulator's intentions are covert, albeit not always insincere.

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  • Within the bush, her covert nest A little linnet fondly prest The dew sat chilly on her breast Sae early in the morning.

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  • Apart from a rare paragraph or perhaps a sentence or two, they contain no mention of CIA covert operations.

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  • The game starts out with your character Alex who is in a training program for covert Ops.

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  • Recent anthrax scares in the US have shown the dangers of covert chemical warfare.

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  • Their infamy is painted in lurid colours by contemporary writers of the 1st century B.C., and by a strange irony the work, or, rather, fragments of the work of one of these assailants of the later Maccabees, has achieved immortality by finding a covert in the chief manifesto that was issued on behalf of one of the earlier members of that dynasty.

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  • As soon as they had passed the fence they all spread out evenly and quietly, without noise or talk, along the road and field leading to the Otradnoe covert.

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  • Covert surveillance Covert surveillance can be used by Public authorities.

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  • With solar power, several reactive panels draw in the heat from the sun and covert that heat into electricity.

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  • Sad to say, many online dating sites have become inundated with profiles that are little more than covert advertisements for other services.

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  • P. communis is a most graceful plant in all open waters, by which it forms excellent covert for duck.

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  • Where an evergreen covert is desired under trees it might be well to use Aucubas-it is so easily increased, that it would not be difficult to get a stock.

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  • G. Shallon is too large for all but the rougher flanks of the rock garden, being a vigorous shrub and an excellent covert for game.

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  • Their chief value is for undergrowth in woods, or for ornamental covert (as birds eat the berries), and they will flourish anywhere.

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  • Antisocial behaviors are disruptive acts characterized by covert and overt hostility and intentional aggression toward others.

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  • Covert antisocial behaviors in early childhood may include noncompliance, sneaking, lying, or secretly destroying another's property.

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  • In the subsequent years Mantineia still found opportunity to give the Athenians covert help, and during the Corinthian War (394387) scarcely disguised its sympathy with the anti-Spartan league.

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  • This singular romance is diversified by, or, to speak more properly, it is the vehicle of the most bewildering abundance of digression, burlesque amplification, covert satire on things political, social and religious, miscellaneous erudition of the literary and scientific kind.

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  • The Saggiatore was printed at Rome in October 1623 by the Academy of the Lincei, of which Galileo was a member, with a dedication to the new pope, Urban VIII., and notwithstanding some passages containing a covert defence of Copernican opinions, was received with acclamation by ecclesiastical, no less than by scientific authorities.

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  • Take the covert at once, for my Girchik says the Ilagins are at Korniki with their hounds.

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  • The oasis of the Otradnoe covert came in sight a few hundred yards off, the huntsmen were already nearing it.

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  • Mechanics (including dynamical astronomy) is that subject among those traditionally classed as "applied" which has been most completely transfused by mathematics - that is to say, which is studied with the deductive spirit of the pure mathematician, and not with the covert inductive intention overlaid with the superficial forms of deduction, characteristic of the applied mathematician.

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  • And if a man converted woodlands within the forest into arable land, he was guilty of the offence known as "assarting," whether the covert belonged to himself or not.

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  • Acting as American naval agent for the many successful privateers who harried the English Channel, and for whom he skilfully got every bit of assistance possible, open and covert, from the French government, he was continually called upon for funds in these ventures.

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  • If, for example, it is the habit of the huntsman to give a single note on his horn when hounds are drawing a covert, and a double note when a fox is found, the pack speedily understand the significance.

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  • Leaped a fearful place; what a sight when they rushed from the covert... the horse worth a thousand rubles and the rider beyond all price!

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  • If we compare this with a similar allegory in Nasir's diwan, which culminates in the praise of Mostansir, we are fairly entitled to look upon it as a covert allusion to the eminent men who revealed to the poet in Cairo the secrets of the Isma`ilitic faith, and showed him what he considered the "heavenly ladder" to superior knowledge and spiritual bliss.

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