(1) But when people's jobs, homes and businesses are in jeopardy, it is not enough for the prime minister and the chancellor to use the eurozone crisis as a cloak to hide their lack of action.
(2) Winston Churchill, when he was offered the role of minister of the local government board in 1906, commented: "There is no place more laborious, more anxious, more thankless, more cloaked with petty and even squalid detail, more full of hopeless and insoluble difficulties."
(3) I can't pull an invisibility cloak over my house – nor would I wish to," she said, a little wistfully, as if she really wished she had Harry Potter's magic powers.
(4) Wearing royal blue cloaks with pointed hoods, the boys line up beside the road in a small village just outside the city of Ségou, chanting in unison.
(5) The most promising addition is the under-construction National Museum of African American History and Culture, designed by the British architect David Adjaye and scheduled to open in 2015, which cloaks a modernist structure with shimmering bronze-coated decorative panels.
(6) Brennan's testimony theoretically represents a rare chance to learn more about drone killing, warrantless wiretapping, torture, rendition, foreign meddling and other odd cloak-and-daggery.
(7) "The only reason they thought they could get away with it was because they had a guaranteed cloak of secrecy.
(8) We, and the public, cannot meaningfully evaluate execution protocol cloaked in secrecy.
(9) There's the odd scene where he's scrambling around naked, but it's cloaked in a more intelligent context.
(10) I will put prices up if I suddenly want a velvet cloak or a bejewelled cock ring.
(11) Images of her being dragged and stomped on - her black abaya cloak torn open to reveal her naked torso and blue bra - became a rallying symbol for the revolution and undermined the interim military rulers who held power between Mubarak's fall and Morsi's rise.
(12) His small frame could be seen following the tree line until eventually it was swallowed by the dense forest cloaking the border.
(13) The hypothesis is advanced that while the Hawaiian Islands contain one of the world's largest percentages of endemic species in the flora, only a few of these species were used for illnesses, though many endemic species were used for building, tapa making, and the foundation of the elaborate and renowned feather cloaks.
(14) However the value of training at altitude for competition at sea level appears on the one hand to lack total acceptance amongst sports scientists; and on the other to hold some cloak of mystery for coaches who have yet to enjoy first hand experience.
(15) It’s like bike sharers are given a cloak of visibility when they set out on a journey.
(16) The pair, whose identities have not been revealed, were dressed in white robes and bowed their heads as they were whipped by officials wearing brown cloaks and masks with eye slits.
(17) We acknowledge the complexity and elegance of the theoretical substance and program algorithms of existing work in these disciplines, while simultaneously observing that many presentations of this material cloak the essential facts and concepts in unnecessary jargon and hyperbole.
(18) No mention of UK Muslim women who are unhappy with this antisocial black cloak.
(19) Ermine cloaks the coalition's first post-local election test on Wednesday.
(20) Those sentiments had been echoed in the seemingly very different context of Qom, the centre of Shia religious studies, where most women move about in full-length black cloaks – the chadors that are the ultimate expression of Shia modesty.
Hidden
Definition:
(p. p. & a.) from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious.
(p. p.) of Hide
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that gamma-(312-324) is hidden in fibrinogen and is exposed by the formation of fibrin.
(2) The unauthorised trades remained hidden for years in so-called umbrella accounts set up to store the funds.
(3) The discovery of this vast tranche of documents has prompted historians to suggest that a major reappraisal of the end of Britain's empire will be required once these materials have been digested – a "hidden history" if ever there were one.
(4) Such inquiries - set up under the Police Act, to look into a matter of serious public concern - are far from common and bring to light facts and opinions that are frequently hidden from view.
(5) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
(6) Next month we’ll see him in Hidden Figures, the story of the African-American women who powered Nasa .
(7) This process is also formulated as a Hidden Markov Model problem and solved by applying the Expectation Maximization algorithm.
(8) Glomus tumors in children may be hidden by otitis media and appear more likely to be endocrine active.
(9) Reasoning ability in crows was investigated by means of the Revecz-Krushinskiĭ test, in which the bird has to apprehend the rule of stimulus (food bait) displacement: "In each next trial the food bait is hidden in a new place--one step further along the row".
(10) "Every exchange you have with a witness will be analysed and considered in order to reveal a hidden agenda.
(11) The Tony Abbott lecturing the American president on taxation fairness is, of course, the one who as Australian prime minister is presiding over policies of taxation amnesty for the richest Australians who have themselves offshored their hidden wealth, capping their taxable liability to merely the last four years.
(12) A world of hidden wealth: why we are shining a light offshore Read more However, the Nahmad lawyers have also insisted that because the painting is not in New York and the IAC is based in Panama, the court case should not be allowed to proceed in the US.
(13) On a dreich November evening in Gourock, a red-coated mongrel is wandering between the seats in a room above a pub, pausing to sniff handbags for hidden treats.
(14) This paper describes a series of young patients hospitalized in a psychiatric facility because they presented symptoms indicative of a psychotic disorder when, in fact, the youngsters were dealing with the strain of keeping a family secret hidden.
(15) Hidden City writer Karl Whitney on Dublin Read more And now for a pint of the black stuff Ireland’s capital is awash with history but no visit would be complete without a sample of the black stuff.
(16) Seeing the faces in my dark room or on my laptop screen brings back the hidden emotions and memories, often leaving me in tears and unable to carry on with my work.
(17) Photograph: Casey Orr for the Observer There is money here, but it’s hidden, a golden hare.
(18) Here the authors consider the possibility of discovery and evaluation of various hidden conditions of malnutrition in patients suffering of valvular heart disease--depending or not from the cardiopathy itself--and their complex pathogenesis, to correct at the end such condition and offer the patients an optimal prognosis with therapeutical procedures.
(19) It said Clinton's "cheap shots" had a hidden agenda to discredit China's engagement with Africa and "drive a wedge between China and Africa for the US selfish gain."
(20) Once the fungus enters the hair cortex just above the hair bulb, it produces myriads of spores that remain trapped and hidden beneath the cuticle for the length of the intact hair.