(1) The judge said Tamir was given “little if any time” to respond to any commands from the officers, that his arms were not raised, and that he made no “furtive movement”.
(2) Turnbull later shrugged off the concern as there was nothing furtive about the deal, and noted it was reported by Australian media.
(3) Back then the town’s Kurdish character was furtive and suppressed.
(4) For the 30 years I have followed Spurs to away games – in pubs, around tube stations, on the streets around the ground and within Stamford Bridge itself, the venom, ignorance and breathtaking casualness of Chelsea fans’ references to Jews, Auschwitz, the Holocaust and foreskins, often accompanied by a hissing simulation of gas chambers, is simply shocking – not least because it goes unchallenged by police, stewards or the club itself, bar a token reference furtively hidden away in the match-day programme.
(5) The page name could have been better translated to "freedoms on the quiet", since the word "yavashaki" [furtive in Persian] also incorporates the word "yavash" meaning gently.
(6) Part-timers, meanwhile, are envied for having one foot in the playground and one in the office, but worry secretly about failing to keep up with either of them: skidding late into the school pick-up, still furtively sending emails on our phones.
(7) Abroad, he had perhaps been best known for his furtive motorcycle tryst with his actor lover, Julie Gayet, and his messy, public breakup with his First Lady, Valérie Trierweiler.
(8) Nearby, guards waited furtively at the entrance to the Islamic mourning tent for Sheikh Alman al-Shijah, blown apart last Friday by a bomb placed under his car.
(9) A small crowd grows larger, and furtive comments become denunciations as anger pours forth against Nkunda's National Congress for People's Defence.
(10) As I was talking his hand started creeping over my leg in a really furtive way.
(11) I had always loved writing the book: from the first furtive soundings of disaffected employees of Big Pharma in London, to forages among the industry’s white chimneys of Basel, and finally to the tribal villages of Kenya, where young mothers who could barely read were being bamboozled into signing “consent forms” that made guinea pigs of their own children.
(12) He said French troops had come up against "furtive firing" and had briefly fired back, but he said these exchanges had now stopped.
(13) The total number present on the island has been extremely difficult to determine due to the rugged terrain and the furtiveness of the monkeys.
(14) In his documentation of this furtive Islam , Degiorgis has also highlighted the ways in which a community under siege becomes resilient and collectively defiant in the face of creeping oppression.
(15) A politically feeble Japan, that once imperial Asian power, shelters furtively behind its US-made anti-missile batteries.
(16) By 1971, about 100 deserters were living furtively in a district of Saigon nicknamed "Soul Alley", beside Tan Son Nhut airport.
(17) All the druidic mumbo-jumbo about the Elevating Principle and the Straight Line reminds me of stuff I furtively read in my father's books on freemasonry.
(18) And given that the net effectively lowered what one might call the "shame threshold" (instead of having to sneak furtively into a "specialist" shop, punters could view from the comfort and privacy of their own homes), the internet undoubtedly expanded the market for commercial porn.
(19) Though he often shrank snail-like into stay-at-home furtiveness, the town that made him - Salem, Massachusetts - (as any visitor can still see) faces the dark, windy ocean, and it was this Hawthorne would stare at when he worked in its Custom House from 1846-49.
(20) When they do, it is in a slightly furtive way, almost in whispers.
Stealthily
Definition:
(adv.) In a stealthy manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Osborne described it as "one of the greatest social policies of all time" that had been "slowly and stealthily strangled" by the last government.
(2) It is tempting to imagine these stories sum up what Iceland is all about: Iceland bailed out the people and jailed the bankers, Icelandic women are the Valkyries of gender equality, marching stealthily toward the goal of total emancipation.
(3) "I took this picture stealthily in the spring," she wrote .
(4) But government is a place that stealthily insulates you from truth and truth-telling, and starves you of time for quiet reflection.
(5) Ever since kickstarting his musical career by moving from Canada to London in 2001 (initially to complete a maths PhD at Imperial College), Snaith has been stealthily cultivating a loyal audience on multiple fronts, wooing indie and techno fans alike.
(6) Stealthily photographing someone’s knickers might normally get you arrested, but everyone’s at it in the V&A.
(7) Maier approached stealthily, leapt into the air, arms outstretched and missed the duck."
(8) A drink with the colour and consistency of Labyrinth's Bog of Eternal Stench is stealthily emerging as the nation's must-slurp beverage: green juice.
(9) 10.15am BST Nel is stealthily picking apart the various exceptions that Lundgren suggested could contribute to delayed gastric emptying.
(10) Perhaps the two of them were merely distracted – hell, it had been a long meeting, and let’s be honest, I was stealthily reading a colleague’s conversation rather than paying full attention myself.
(11) Frogmen leap out of planes in their flippers, drifting stealthily towards the lifeboat on parachutes.
(12) Kearney and a cabal of other like-minded senior lay Catholics have stealthily attained some of the church's most influential lay positions.
(13) The Nottingham 30-year-old has been threatened, cursed at, and pushed around while doing the job she says she lives for: stealthily filming the illegal hunting of protected migratory birds and reporting perpetrators to the police.
(14) If it was going to carry on, I was going to have to hire 10 or 20 more people… So we put a hold on it.” It could be seen as a lost opportunity: You Generation could have been Syco’s way to stealthily become a YouTube multi-channel network (MCN) signing up hundreds of new faces, building up a network to cross-promote them, and perhaps finding the new Bethany Mota or PewDiePie, rather than the next Leona Lewis or Diversity.
(15) One is whether the City of London should follow the path of every other British city centre; the other is whether Nouvel's stealthily bombastic design is the right neighbour for St Paul's.
(16) Working for Astor, as I did slightly later than Anthony, I surmise that Astor's real aim was simply to attract Anthony into the newspaper, stealthily diagnose his talents and focus these into his true last as a reporter and commentator.
(17) Arsenal’s ambush was even more stealthily surprising than that.
(18) There was almost a 32nd, too, as the first half of extra time drew to a close and he fed Willy Sagnol out on the right before stealthily drifting through the Italian defence to meet the answering cross with a powerful header that called upon all of Gianluigi Buffon's virtuosity as the goalkeeper soared to touch it over the bar.
(19) Proprietors’ interests are stealthily advanced, corporate press releases are disguised as news, favoured businesses and political parties are protected from serious scrutiny.
(20) ONE’s report stresses that the sums involved are not international aid money – “which is making a tangible difference” – but money that is stealthily drained off through anonymous shell companies and “shady deals” for natural resources.