(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.
Stealthy
Definition:
(superl.) Done by stealth; accomplished clandestinely; unperceived; secret; furtive; sly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Worried that the song was too short, Gabler asked pianist Sonny White to improvise a suitably stealthy introduction.
(2) Having experienced a hands-on session with Hitman: Absolution at a pre-E3 event around a month ago, I'm pleased to say that it's retained all the slow, stealthy, hiding-in-a-cupboard-until-you-kill-someone gameplay of the previous titles.
(3) But there may be a stealthy way to play the gender card.
(4) 63 min: After more incisive work by Robinho, Luis Fabiano misdirects Jun Il with a stealthy touch ... and then hammers the ball high and wide from 10 yards.
(5) Trump has criticized the Pentagon’s top acquisition priority, a hugely expensive and advanced, stealthy, multipurpose combat jet that three US military services and key US allies, including the UK, are purchasing.
(6) But as negotiators tussle, in this trade deal and in every other, the sharpest of eyes need to be on the lookout for the stealthy influence of big tobacco.
(7) Economic ministers have previously said the government must address bracket creep because it was a stealthy “inflation tax” that would detract from economic growth and workforce participation.
(8) This may not be a slow and stealthy change, but an immediate and radical explosion.
(9) What had been invisible to Sheikh and other residents of Barawe was the stealthy advance of navy Seal team six – the same unit that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan – in a speedboat towards the Somalian coastline before first light.
(10) Alinejad told the Guardian she had been bombarded with messages and pictures since launching Stealthy Freedoms of Iranian Women .
(11) Outrage within the Democratic party over the stealthy manoeuvre has tarnished Renzi’s image and he was forced to backtrack.
(12) There are conflicting reports of how Ikrima survived Saturday's stealthy assault on Barawe by the same US navy Seal unit that killed Osama bin Laden.
(13) Cocks crow and partridges strut through nearby fields, food for stealthy farm cats.
(14) The good-looking, fork-tongued incomer is stealthy and ambiguous.
(15) Even in the recent snow and ice I stayed upright, although less by stealthy cat-like grace than by steadfastly refusing to leave my house.
(16) This case showed a possible threat of 'stealthy' and migrating foreign bodies, such as very fine acupuncture needles.
(17) And when Obama went to this kind of ‘let’s move away from hard power into the more soft power and more stealthy approach’, the numbers skyrocketed.” Carofano is right that total deaths from terrorism dipped after 2007, but they rose above those levels only after the beginning of the Syrian civil war, in 2011 .
(18) This is a system that can detect adversaries at quite a phenomenal distance and is stealthy so it is very, very difficult to find,” Johnston said.
(19) Defunding of the NHS and stealthy privatisation will introduce vested financial interests that will trump clinical needs.
(20) It was a stealthy act of digital anti-promotion that would prove massively successful, relying on news sites and social media to spread the word.