(n.) A number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue; a secret association composed of a few designing persons; a junto.
(n.) The secret artifices or machinations of a few persons united in a close design; intrigue.
(v. i.) To unite in a small party to promote private views and interests by intrigue; to intrigue; to plot.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is the way these packages are constructed by a small cabal of longstanding advisers, drawing on the mechanics of game theory, that has driven the exponential increases in value over the past two decades.
(2) The antigen for the CT was prepared from lyophilized Babesia caballi complement-fixation (CF) antigen.
(3) A cabal of corporate types has been signed up to provide wise counsel to David Cameron .
(4) Most grownup democracies regard such leadership as most accountable where it is embodied in one person, rather than expressed through the cabalism of party groups and shifting coalitions.
(5) But before Game of Thrones was even a series, House Targaryen was toppled by a cabal of sweaty northern feudal lords, headed, naturally, by Mark Addy and Sean Bean.
(6) 321 sera of horses were examined for specific antibodies to Babesia by means of CFT and IIF in 1984; 18 sera reacted to Babesia equi and 4 to Babesia caballi antigen.
(7) These protests represent a group of like-minded individuals coming together to demonstrate their frustration and unhappiness at a system that is rigged in favour of an elite of unelected cabals who have undue influence over the lives of working people.
(8) Asserting in 2002 that "America did, in Afghanistan, what had to be done and did it well," he commended Hamid Karzai's CIA-sponsored cabal of warlords – apparently, it was "surprising people by functioning pretty well".
(9) But if taken in their entirety, and if true – the government denies it – they offer a damning vision of a corrupt cabal at the head of the Egyptian regime.
(10) The IFA test indicated a prevalence of 90% for B. caballi and 94% for B. equi.
(11) BBC may have to share licence fee with rivals Read more The subtleties involved in an organisation failing to suppress news about its repressive news management were wasted on hordes of aggrieved conservatives, who had always suspected that their favourite sources were being blacklisted by a cabal of liberal geeks.
(12) The specificity of the clones for B. caballi was established by the lack of hybridization to Babesia equi, Babesia bovis, Babesia bigemina and equine DNA.
(13) It is a resolution that the most surprising people, in the most surprising of contexts, continue to find themselves unable to show - I am thinking, for example, of the recently reported remarks of Labour MP Tam Dalyell, who said Tony Blair had been "unduly influenced by a cabal of Jewish advisers".
(14) Acknowledgment: I wish to thank Doctors Stephen A. Ockner and John Cacciamani for the kind referral of their patient and Doctor Edito Cabal, St. Louis Veterans Administration Hospital, who performed the arteriography.
(15) Slowly, my colleagues and I in Congress have been chipping away at this secret cabal ever since.
(16) Inflation was developed by a cabal of theorists over a number of years.
(17) On Thursday the president told a party congress there was a “treacherous cabal” bent on removing him from power.
(18) Probably because "Gnod" resembles a conflation of "God" and "synod", they have an air about them of a quasi-religious sect, a cabal, a secret society.
(19) The horse contracted a B. caballi infection showing a prepatent period of 19 days after tick infestation.
(20) He'll even be going to Washington's (not really) secret all-powerful Republican cabal meeting today: Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) Manchin to meet with Grover Norquist's "Wednesday Group" in an effort to get votes for background check plan.
Clandestine
Definition:
(a.) Conducted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clandestine marriage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Galli said there were already about 200,000 hospitalisations of women who have undergone a clandestine termination every year, and a suspected 1 million illegal abortions before the epidemic.
(2) A 4-methyl derivative of aminorex has recently appeared on the clandestine market as a designer drug.
(3) A series of clandestine lunches has been held by Stuart Wheeler, a former Tory donor who is now trying to persuade MPs to jump ship.
(4) Only 2 married men informed their female sex partner (regular partner) of their clandestine activity.
(5) The deep state originally meant the military, police and intelligence networks which assigned themselves the task of defending the secular Kemalist regime against both Islamists and leftists and often used clandestine means to do so.
(6) The microfilmed files obtained by the CIA – in what the Americans described as a "clandestine operation" which may have included a pay-off to a rogue KGB agent – are the key because they contain copies of the card indexes of the HVA, listing the real names of all the agents, informers and targets of the Stasi's foreign operations.
(7) We announce that there will be no differentiation between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Taliban ,” he said, referring to the Pakistani military’s long history of clandestine support for those militant groups it believes support its own strategic objectives.
(8) Liberalization of abortion laws occurred to reduce or eliminate the disastrous effects of criminal abortions performed by unskilled people under clandestine and unsafe conditions.
(9) Ten more dead and 900 clandestine migrants ready to disembark,” Salvini said on Wednesday.
(10) Most importantly, he sat on the intelligence committee, the Senate’s sole oversight board of the clandestine agencies, where he was one of just a few dissenting members.
(11) The former Belfast IRA commander Brendan Hughes posthumously claimed in taped testimony, for the US university Boston College, that Gerry Adams gave the order for the widow to be shot dead but buried clandestinely in order to avoid any negative publicity for the republican movement.
(12) But those involved in the clandestine discussions over the past few days said there had to be secrecy, partly because Clegg had said he must talk to the Conservatives first.
(13) More alarmingly, since 2008, when a local tabloid newspaper published photographs of a clandestine gay wedding in Dakar, police have been cracking down, many homosexuals have gone into hiding or fled abroad (including to Gambia, whose president told them they should leave again within 24 hours or face decapitation), nine gay activists have been jailed after coming out, and the bodies of at least four gay men have been exhumed from their graves and dragged through the streets by jeering mobs.
(14) In surveys of poverty neighborhoods in New York City conducted in 1965 and 1967, it became apparent that clandestine abortions were more frequently reported as occurring when the woman was married and had one to three children than before marriage or after three children had already been born.
(15) Park said the ballooning would be done clandestinely, with the pace picking up in March when he expects the wind direction to become more favourable.
(16) It knew Iguala was a clandestine cemetery.” Omar Garcia, one of several Ayotzinapa students who survived the attack, said the incident had crystalised the widespread sense that political corruption was driving Mexico’s descent into violence.
(17) Infanticide remained clandestine in ages when the Church was powerful.
(18) In 2011 the army was humiliated by the unilateral US special forces raid on the lair of former al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden and the persistence of supposedly clandestine strikes by US drones, the advanced unmanned aircraft Washington has refused to share with Pakistan.
(19) Our meeting is not clandestine, exactly: we sit by the window to eat our open sandwiches.
(20) There were clandestine reporter meetings in Washington, Munich, and London.