(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.
Surreptitiously
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A new approach is presented to the refractive procedure by adding observation, both surreptitious and direct, as an adjunct, an aid and a supplement to differential diagnosis in a refractive examination and in visual analysis.
(2) Aberrantly low plasma levels are more likely due to surreptitious noncompliance or drug interactions with enzyme inducers such as carbamazepine.
(3) A history of episodic edema and hypokalemia, often attributed in women to surreptitious diuretic abuse, requires a careful search for hypercorticism even in the absence of clinical Cushing's syndrome.
(4) Part of that must be down to the way the language of welfare reform is surreptitiously laced with innuendo about scroungers and skivers.
(5) Controls were compared to Ss receiving 2 deepening techniques or 2 suggestions for positive and negative hallucinations that were surreptitiously enhanced.
(6) It soon emerged that the City Planning Commission had already, surreptitiously, designated the area as blighted.
(7) In 2008, Weatherup gave evidence at the trial of Ian Strachan and Sean McGuigan, two men jailed for surreptitiously recording then blackmailing a royal family member over gay sex claims and drug-taking.
(8) When she remained anticoagulated during a 2-month period off of warfarin a plasma analysis detected warfarin indicating she was taking the anticoagulant surreptitiously.
(9) Menezes supported pacification, but said that the drug trade for which Alemão was notorious continues surreptitiously: "It doesn't stop.
(10) In the third and fourth experiments, subjects were led to believe that only on stimulus type would occur but were surreptitiously shown another type on a small number of trials.
(11) Surreptitious self-administration of insulin is an important cause of hypoglycemia.
(12) The present study attempted to assess the effectiveness of commonly used deepening techniques and of surreptitiously provided stimulation on hypnotizability scores, in-hypnosis depth reports, retrospective realness ratings, and the Field Inventory of Hypnotic Depth (Field, 1965).
(13) The longer she remains on the throne, the greater her standing on the world stage and the greater the respect for her – and, therefore, the greater her potential surreptitious influence.
(14) The usefulness of assays for the rapid identification and determination of quantitative plasma levels of warfarin sodium and dicumarol is documented by the case histories of five patients: a man who accidentally took dicumarol for several weeks and developed an acute condition within the abdomen, a man who ingested 500 mg of warfarin sodium in a suicide attempt, a malingering nurse who surreptitiously took dicumarol, a nurse with warfarin intoxication who did not follow dosage prescription because of fear of developing thrombosis, and a woman with calf vein thrombosis who did not ingest the administered warfin sodium becausing of fear of developing bleeding.
(15) Tanni Grey-Thompson was Britain's first disabled sports superstar, but she has become, almost surreptitiously, one of Britain's most high-profile disability rights activists.
(16) Surreptitious diuretic use was found in a patient with longstanding hypokalaemia thought to be due to Bartter's syndrome.
(17) Gary, drunk on surreptitious martinis, dripping blood from his hand which he has cut while trying to trim a hedge, furious with his wife for her insistence that he is "clinically depressed" (and because she has confided in their sons that this is the case), has sneaked to the kitchen liquor cabinet.
(18) A case of surreptitious ingestion of oral anticoagulants is presented.
(19) Yet the 38-year old former State Department official has raised a Snowden-like alarm that Americans' communication data remains highly vulnerable to surreptitious collection by the National Security Agency – and will remain vulnerable despite the legislative fixes wending through Congress to redress the bulk domestic phone data collection Snowden revealed.
(20) Scahill, one of the founders of the Intercept , also last week revealed documents leaked by intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden showing the CIA’s years-long effort to break encryption on Apple mobile devices like iPads and iPhones and a related effort by Britain’s GCHQ to surreptitiously retrieve communications data from them.