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Sentence count:135+4Posted:2016-10-16Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: coveredhiddenhideawayrefugesecretshelterveiledAntonym: overtSimilar words: coveruncoverrecovercover uprecoverycoveragepovertyover thereMeaning: ['kʌvət]  n. 1. a flock of coots 2. a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something. adj. 1. secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed 2. (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband. 
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31. The covert reasons why the scheme drew widespread support from Cardiff solicitors was that it was part of an internal power struggle.
32. Win had also used a false name through the years, standard practice for officers engaged in covert work.
33. When she arrived at the edge of the covert, she made her way cautiously along its downhill fringes.
34. Wickham had remarked that covert freelance writing for another publication did not justify making a misleading statement during a murder inquiry.
35. Failure to select a suitable candidate because of age is often a covert form of racial and gender discrimination.
36. He remained a Scandinavian puritan, less humourous than Bergman, certainly more covert about sexuality generally.
37. What would be the moral standing of a covert participant observation study of Death Row?
38. He said in a 1994 interview that as prime minister he rejected a military plan to sell heroin to finance covert operations.
39. These groups relish their own obscurity, because it allows them to do things in a covert manner,(www.Sentencedict.com) like cockroaches.
40. But the media are not Rasputin with a covert or overt political agenda.
41. The need-to-know rule in the covert world normally works admirably.
42. Because of the substantial practical advantages, the bulk of this chapter will be devoted to covert sensitization.
43. Friday morning they organized a covert operation, modeled on many others over the years, to take control of Artis Hill.
44. The special conditions at Westminster are one part of the explanation of the relatively free rein given to counter-insurgency and covert activity.
45. The Committee considered such appointments preferable to more covert arrangements whereby certain officers became singled out as sympathetic sources of advice.
46. Covert sensitization requires no special equipment, involves minimal risk to patients[sentencedict.com], and can easily be conducted on an outpatient basis.
47. When using covert sensitization, it is important to evaluate its effect on both drinking behavior and urges to drink.
48. This was confirmed in 14 patients by covert video surveillance.
49. If you are doing covert sensitization on an outpatient basis, your client could be consuming alcohol prior to treatment.
50. Miller never did find out how to set up a covert operation.
51. Covert video cameras and hand-held laser devices will be among the equipment used at weekends, they warn.
52. One wonders whether that overt gesture really was meant to stifle covert action.
53. On top of that there was the slovenly, almost token, way they had drawn the first covert.
54. Ninety minutes later they were all back in the saddle and drawing their first covert as if the season had just begun.
55. A covert investigation was conducted to catch the drug-smuggling ring.
56. On the whole, though, the cases in which covert taping of conversations plays a decisive part are few.
57. Though this derives from psychological studies of covert actions types, it would be waste to leave it at that.
58. Better to buy time with covert operations and the steady working of violence, crime and racketeering than to risk vote-endangering controversy.
59. The overt legitimate action overlays the covert set of intents.
60. Spontaneous resistance and sabotage A form of activity which clearly comes under the heading of subtle and covert resistance is industrial sabotage.
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