How to use "covert" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "covert" in popular movie and book plots

  • By the events of The Last Dark, Fumito—operating through his covert group Tower and its puppet corporation Seventh Heaven—has gained control of Tokyo's government and implemented the Youth Ordinance Bill, a law which enforces curfews for minors and regulates the use of the internet.  - Blood-C: The Last Dark
  • Meanwhile Geoffrey Sydenham is in Wakanda to develop a covert diplomatic relationship between the African nation and the United States, though it becomes apparent that all is not as it seems.  - Avengers 1959
  • Ben weakly explains that he and his team were killed by a squad of mysterious covert agents they had tracked to the mountain, who were attempting to mine the Ore-13.  - Revolution (IDW Publishing)
  • Refusing to let Lotsa Soap's plan to reclaim their history via over and covert resistance, Abendigo plans a heist to get back Juma Moore's jacket and a march for the name change back to Negro Creek Road all on the same day.  - The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God
  • The old man feels much happier because he is going to lease out the covert room to amorous couples.  - The Imperfect Sculpture
  • Saul confronts Nafisi with financial records obtained from his phone showing a large transfer of funds from a covert account.  - The Covenant (Homeland)
  • Narada adept in his his covert ways to achieve his goals subtly gifts a parijatham flower to Krishna and make him in turn gift it to his first wife Rukmani.  - Parijatham (1950 film)
  • Convinced that the assassination attempt is linked to his covert actions with an Iranian national, Ryan sets out to find out who wants him dead and why.  - Duty and Honor (novel)
  • Sinjir recruits former SpecForces operative Jom Barell for a covert mission with Temmin, Han Solo, and Sinjir's sometimes lover Conder Kyl to identify the leverage which the Black Sun and Red Key criminal syndicates used to influence the vote.  - Star Wars: Aftermath: Empire's End
  • At the request of his boss, Hamilton (Liam Cunningham), Harry takes covert photos of Angela rowing with her ex, Alex Simpson (Alan McKenna), and follows Angela as she goes to meet with Jenner.  - The Crooked Man
  • Eventually, Mia's memory is restored, revealing that she was a covert operative for an unnamed corporation that developed Eveline as a bioweapon.  - Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
  • As the series begins, Leia leads a covert rebel mission to destroy an Imperial weapons factory, attracting the attention of Darth Vader.  - Star Wars (2015 comic)
  • Years later, Veerappan avenges the death of his close associate Gandhi by misleading Special Task Force (STF) personnel in their covert operation, through Gandhi's unnamed notorious informer.  - Veerappan (2016 film)
  • Following Preservation's thoughts, Kelsier meets two people from different worlds, Khriss and Nazh, who point him to a covert group known as the Eyree as his only chance for aid.  - Mistborn: Secret History
  • Meanwhile, multiple factions among the Amazonians are engaged in covert political intrigues rooted in the gender dynamics of their society.  - Carnival (Bear novel)
  • Trusting his nose (both literally and figuratively), Ikuo manages to find the culprit along with some covert help from Tacchan or Tatsuya Danno.  - Ouroboros (TV series)
  • Garner again denies the request, stating that Gutierrez needs time to acclimatize to his new reality before even being considered for a covert strike force.  - Purpose in the Machine
  • Years later, Veerappan avenges the death of his close associate Gandhi by misleading Special Task Force (STF) personnel in their covert operation, through Gandhi's unnamed notorious informer (Aziz Naser).  - Killing Veerappan
  • Further investigation into Mills reveals that she is actually Rowan's twin sister, Nora Mills, a covert operative who suffers from an engineered dissociative identity disorder, and is also revealed to be the actual Lord Baltimore.  - Lord Baltimore (The Blacklist)
  • As such, most of the warfare between countries is done by covert operatives fighting behind enemy lines.  - Call of Duty: Black Ops III
  • dr Cameron Goodkin, a brilliant neuroscientist, assists Kirsten in the secret program headed by Maggie Baptiste, a skilled covert operator.  - Stitchers
  • They discover a sophisticated covert surveillance operation run by The Syndicate – an organized crime gang.  - Operation Moon Rocket
  • Munro recruits Harry Martineau, a former Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford, and now a covert operative and ruthless killer.  - Night of the Fox (novel)
  • Alexander (Steven Seagal) is the leader of a covert operation on the border of Dagestan.  - A Good Man (2014 film)
  • The message suggests that at this complex Howard Stark, who the SSR have been hunting, will be selling weapons to Leviathan, which Chief Roger Dooley explains is a covert Russian organization.  - The Iron Ceiling
  • Snowden and his peers are each tasked with building a covert communications network in their hometown, deleting it, and then rebuilding it in eight hours or less, with five being the average time taken.  - Snowden (film)
  • Seal's role in this major CIA covert operation led in turn to his involvement with the Medellin cartel, which ultimately embarrassed the Reagan White House after the Iran-Contra scandal became public.  - American Made (film)
  • Though Overwatch successfully quelled the robotic uprising and brought a number of talented individuals to the forefront, a rift developed between Reyes and Morrison, and Morrison became the leader of Overwatch while Reyes took charge of Blackwatch, Overwatch's covert operations division.  - Overwatch (video game)
  • This gave rise to covert whisperings in the village.  - Brihonnola
  • A recruiter from a covert organization approaches Wilson and promises him abilities that will cure his cancer.  - Deadpool (film)
  • One member of this covert ops unit, a Swedish girl by the name of Anthea Kallenberg, seeks to find who she really is.  - Under the Dog
  • So-called Runners skilled at free running refuse to be connected to the Grid and live on rooftops, making their living from covert delivery jobs while evading K-Sec personnel.  - Mirror's Edge Catalyst
  • The game initially opens 2 days prior to the Banoi Island zombie outbreak, with the player controlling "Kilo Two", a covert operative working with Dead Island protagonist Xian Mei (who provides support over the radio) to infiltrate a Geopharm facility on the island of Narapela and assassinate a mole.  - Escape Dead Island
  • While on an unsanctioned covert mission in Africa, a small team ofEALs uncovers intelligence pointing to the imminent sale of a massive quantity of weapons grade uranium.  - SEAL Team 8: Behind Enemy Lines
  • When Pelissier reveals himself to be a CIA covert operative who knows Johnny's true identity, Johnny desperately cuts a deal: he will help Pelissier with the investigation of Gladstone in exchange for his silence about his location.  - Turks & Caicos (film)
  • Amsford offers Joe the chance to lead a covert and government-sanctioned assault on the Mafia.  - Love, Lust and Violence
  • While investigating the case, atheist Swedish covert operative Adolf Silfverskiöld is led into Kashmir to keep an eye on a suspect, Mansur Haider.  - Baramulla Bomber
  • A pen containing a covert listening device is found on SECNAV, but she cannot remember when or where the pen came from.  - Gut Check (NCIS)
  • Before long, covert aggression between the two clans gives way to renewed hostilities.  - Naughty Neighbors (film)
  • A flashback of six months ago shows the office of the Indian RAW chief Roy (Sabyasachi Chakrabarty), where he and his trusted men (Rajesh Tailang, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub) plan a daring covert operation.  - Phantom (2015 film)
  • Characters from the Star Trek Universe are seen conducting secret actions ranging from intelligence gathering, to covert operations and sabotage.  - Star Trek: Typhon Pact
  • He is also a covert anti-Nazi.  - Shining Through (novel)
  • David intends to thwart a covert sale of the Lucky Star between arms dealer Li Wan (Morris Rong) and mr Gao (Jack Kao) at a posh rooftop party.  - My Lucky Star (2013 film)
  • In their safe house in Costa Rica, Ben Saxon and Anna Kelso are hiding from the Illuminati, their henchman Jaron Namir, and his covert black ops unit, the Tyrants.  - Deus Ex: The Fall
  • The pair pose as a couple interested in investing within the group, however they are soon discovered, although they manage to successfully lead their team of high specialized assassins and technicians on the raid of the covert American hate group.  - Red Scorpion 2
  • Günther Bachmann (Philip Seymour Hoffman) leads an unconstitutional, covert government team that seeks to recruit local informants with ties to Islamic terrorist organizations.  - A Most Wanted Man (film)
  • There, Hook glimpses a Loyalist group in a back room, constructing a bomb under the guidance of a member of the Military Reaction Force (MRF), the British Army's covert counter-insurgency unit.  - '71 (film)
  • In 2014, former covert operative Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) visits his daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace), to deliver a birthday gift.  - Taken 3
  • The unit includes an anti-organized crime covert specialist from Italy, a technical specialist from Germany, a crimes analyst and a human trafficking specialist from France, and a weapons specialist and tactical expert from Northern Ireland.  - Crossing Lines
  • Ron is introduced to General Roberts who has revived the weather control project and wants Ron to help him achieve the goal of developing and steering the storms and hurricanes which could be used as a covert and deniable weapon of mass destruction.  - Storm (1999 film)
  • Both the Vektans and Helghast routinely perform covert operations against each other in the hope of finishing the war each claims the other started.  - Killzone Shadow Fall
  • James Ziegler has spent five years of his life planning the perfect crime, planting covert listening device on the communication devices of influential mega rich businessman Rosentski.  - Night of the Sharks
  • Antonia expresses displeasure with their covert relationship, but Daniela is unwilling to commit to only one partner.  - Young and Wild (2012 film)
  • The covert operation which is directed by Quinn and an employee of "Security contractors" Ethical named Elliot is compromised when Quinn and Elliot insist that the soldiers raid an abandoned house where, despite the absence of proof, they assume a high-ranking jihadist is hiding and insist that the operation was a success.  - A Delicate Truth
  • Trench has a rendezvous with fellow DEA agent and former lover, Deb Rees (Paula Patton), who is also seeing another man, while Stigman, an undercover enlisted Intelligence Specialist with the Navy SEALs, meets with his commanding officer, LCDR Harold Quince (James Marsden), who instructs Stigman to kill Trench so the Navy can use the stolen money to fund unauthorized covert operations.  - 2 Guns
  • He fights in the Spanish Civil War and in the Battle of Moscow, and later manages to obtain covert intelligence onS.  - Winter of the World
  • The reader first meets Rapp while he is doing a covert operation in Iran and he discovers a possible terrorist attack planned for the nation's capital to happen in the near future.  - Transfer of Power
  • Knowing the covert Soviet spy enjoys considerable influence in the Circus, the British cannot trust their top spy masters to uncover the mole or even let them know of the investigation; Smiley is recalled to expose the mole.  - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (miniseries)
  • During his coma, the medic was transformed into a second Big Boss via plastic surgery and hypnotherapy to serve as a decoy for the actual Big Boss while he wages a covert war against Cipher.  - Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
  • They are being hunted by the ISS (secret service) which is under the influence of the nanites, the remaining gang of Agandar the pirate who is after the drive, and Sedmon, the Daal of Uldune (a planet that caters to pirates and others who have covert needs) who is also after the drive.  - The Wizard of Karres
  • Influenced by Stevenson's covert agitation, the ranchers are driven to armed resistance when Gabby's nephew Jimmy (Billy Lee) is killed in an explosion caused by Stevenson.  - In Old Monterey
  • Two years afterwards, he made strict trade restrictions and set up a covert slave-trading operation to transport slaves to a Templar worksite in Mexico, creating a rebellion among French officials and the citizens of New Orleans.  - Assassin's Creed III: Liberation
  • The player controls a Super Apache helicopter as part of the STRIKE covert operations force, led by General Earle (John Marzilli) and assisted by technician Hack (Antwon Tanner) and propagandist Andrea Gray (Susan Turner-Cray).  - Nuclear Strike
  • The player is a helicopter pilot in STRIKE, a special covert operations force of the US military designed for preemptive action to prevent "wars that never happen".  - Soviet Strike
  • His next target is Pat Murnahn: a covert member of the Third House and a possible inside source.  - A Member of the Third House
  • Ryan informs him that the vaccination mission was a covert CIA operation to obtain the DNA of cartel leaders.  - The Missionary Position (NCIS)
  • The job is low-level, but a more exciting opportunity appears when Serena is offered a chance to take part in a new covert program codenamed "Sweet Tooth".  - Sweet Tooth (novel)
  • They track them to Darren's office, where Jamie has admitted to Darren that, on the night of the murder, Rosie had witnessed a covert meeting between him, Ames, and casino owner Nicole Jackson.  - The Killing (season 2)
  • Nicholaï Hel is the only man who can possibly carry out a certain covert operation in Beijing.  - Satori (Winslow novel)
  • Superintendent Okaro manages to persuade Amanda Prosser to allow Gina Gold back on duty to negotiate, and Gina manages to establish contact with Terry through a covert earpiece, without Jeff realising.  - The Anniversary, Part Two
  • An unspeakable legacy is at stake for the covert clan of Black Lake and Alexandra is challenged to confront the forces that have shaped her life's path.  - The House on Black Lake
  • This covert political game influenced surreptitiously the attitude of both the protagonists.  - Imprimatur (novel)
  • The next scene is a Tudeh marriage gathering, a celebration which may be a front for their covert publishing activities.  - Women Without Men (2009 film)
  • The episode ends with Dwight putting a decal on his car, in honor of his covert new family member.  - Jury Duty (The Office)
  • Finding himself embroiled in a vast international conspiracy, Jung must determine the North's role in the deal, as well as the potential involvement of the CIA, Israel's Mossad, international terrorist organizations, and any other covert operatives lurking in Berlin's polyglot underworld.  - The Berlin File
  • Unfortunately, of all men he finds he has challenged the Count de Rochefort, a shifty character to whom Cardinal Richelieu frequently entrusts covert operations.  - The Three Musketeers (1953 film)
  • Scotty discovers they lead to a covert Starfleet facility near Jupiter.  - Star Trek Into Darkness
  • Government alleged that the Quds Force "conducts sensitive covert operations abroad, including terrorist attacks, assassinations and kidnappings, and is believed to sponsor attacks against Coalition Forces in Iraq".  - 2011 Iran assassination plot
  • Davies then reveals to Carruthers that his real interest in the area is that he suspects that the Imperial German Navy is engaged in covert military activity of some nature in the Frisian Islands, with the intention of threatening the security of the North Sea from the British perspective, which the Royal Navy is strategically misdirected to meet, and this is why he has invited Carruthers' presence, given his linguistic ability in Deutsch and professional contacts within Whitehall, on a pre-text of a holiday.  - The Riddle of the Sands (film)
  • They receive assistance from Amanda (Christine Baranski), another covert operative who initially appears to be a friend, but appears to have her own motives.  - Who Is Simon Miller?
  • Just as Quaid is starting to be implanted, McClane discovers that he already has real memories of being a covert operative.  - Total Recall (2012 film)
  • This mission is actually a covert operation as the original escort was taken down by the enemy.  - The Princess and the Pilot
  • As John Phillips, he works on covert special assignments while trying to clear his name.  - The Exile (TV series)
  • Hobbs is forced to release Shaw, and Riley, revealed to be Shaw's covert accomplice, leaves with him; Letty chooses to remain with Dom.  - Fast & Furious 6
  • To strike back, five South Korean officials plan a covert operation, codenamed "Operation Cleansweep," to enter North Korea and kill several top members of the North's high command.  - City Hunter (TV series)
  • After all the women in a remote valley on the Welsh border awaken to find their husbands have left to serve in the covert British Resistance, German occupiers arrive in this alternate-reality thriller set in 1944 where D-Day has failed and the United Kingdom has been invaded by Nazi Germany.  - Resistance (2011 film)
  • Johnny shares his love of modern art and jazz with Nancy but, wondering if she aims to exploit his connections, asks friend and covert intelligence operative Rollo to investigate her.  - Page Eight
  • Wettin, discovering that Bavaria invaded on the covert invitation of the Chancellor to ensure the defense forces cannot oppose his coup, confronts Oxenstierna, only to be arrested and removed from office.  - 1636: The Saxon Uprising
  • He is assisted by his chauffeur, František, who discovered his covert identity but intends to help him, in order to return to his homeland Czechoslovakia.  - For Eyes Only
  • The "Uniques" are actually one of several covert operation units of skilled or superpowered people working at different countries.  - Los únicos
  • In the meantime, Ernst Kaltenbrunner becomes suspicious of Stierlitz, and orders Heinrich Müller to launch a covert investigation on him.  - Seventeen Moments of Spring
  • James Bond is a former Royal Naval Reserve officer who has recently joined the Overseas Development Group - a covert operational unit of British security under the control of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office tasked "to identify and eliminate threats to the country by extraordinary means".  - Carte Blanche (novel)
  • On further investigation, they discover that Tae-sik was a former covert operator for the South Korean Army Intelligence, with numerous commendations, but he retired after he was wounded and his pregnant wife was murdered by an assassin.  - The Man from Nowhere (film)
  • Mark and Ewan are told by Charlotte that the Secret Service has found out about their covert mission and is hunting them.  - Cleanskin (film)
  • On a covert mission to Sino-Asia, Arnold sends a message to his handlers in the stating that "The West will be destroyed in fourteen days".  - Project X (1968 film)
  • The villagers resistance takes the form of covert activities including the publication of a Welsh news sheet.  - The Silent Village
  • Following on from the 2011 "Regenesis" event among the X-titles, Marvel have announced that X-Men will be among the titles aligned with Cyclops's vision of the X-Men and feature a more covert group of characters, with Colossus, Domino, Jubilee, Psylocke, Storm, and Warpath being the initial lineup.  - X-Men (comic book)
  • A disparate group of individuals is recruited by the wartime British Special Operations Executive to train for covert operations behind enemy lines in Belgium.  - Against the Wind (film)
  • OSS 117 places a covert listening device inside Eva's dress and arranges to monitor her when she meets her blackmail contact.  - Atout coeur à Tokyo pour OSS 117
  • Also, Lady Jaye is sympathetic to her longtime friend Duke and provides covert support for him and the Renegades, much like Captain Charissa Sosa in the A-Team film and Amy Allen in the 1980s TV series.  - G.I. Joe: Renegades
  • In the meantime, the Chief of Police (Bill Lake) blackmails Mayor Gibson (Christopher Bondy) with evidence that he has been making covert meetings with Phineas Washburn (Tim Thomerson), the owner of Washburn's Tasty Sauce.  - Swarmed (film)
  • Captain Jeremy Rankin, last seen in His Majesty's Dragon, arrives on a mission to take command of the nascent covert and whichever dragon births first.  - Tongues of Serpents
  • The story centers on one of the covert espionage missions undertaken by Cinderella for Fabletown's government.  - Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love
  • Conducting guerrilla warfare actions and covert recon operations against Naga forces, the NATO team destroys Naga assets and hunts down their leader, Sibak Razad.  - SOCOM 4 U.S. Navy SEALs
  • David and Colby search Ashby's apartment and find six covert listening devices from several countries.  - The Janus List
  • Tracking Tito's family is a man known as Brown, a brusque and obstinate lead covert operative for a shadowy organization of unclear connection to theS.  - Spook Country
  • With a combined career in both the FBI and CIA, Weed/Leuco was able to access information about the assassins and used them for covert missions over the years, allegedly for patriotic interest.  - Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball
  • Despite repeated attempts to break up the candidates they continue a covert relationship.  - Left Right and Centre
  • After Devlin convinces the skeptical Legionnaires that Earth is now under the covert control of the Dominators, team leader Invisible Kid (Lyle Norg) accepts his suggestion that the group join the underground resistance, led by Jacques Foccart (the former Legionnaire who became the second Invisible Kid) and Universo.  - The Terra Mosaic
  • She responds by conceiving a passionate first love for him, and he begins a covert flirtation with her – in part to irritate another lodger who adores her.  - A Shabby Genteel Story
  • He is sought out by Bpaa Thap ("Jungle Patrol"), the group founded by the 1st Phantom which has evolved into an "international covert intelligence and law enforcement agency" headquartered in the jungles of Bangalla (the fictional small island nation in the Indonesian archipelago).  - The Phantom (miniseries)
  • The spotlight makes the former covert operator an ideal international target for eradication by terrorists as the symbol he has become.  - Executive Power
  • A psychological crime thriller, Child's Play follows the story of 25-year-old Allegra Ashe who, after a chance encounter with an alluring stranger, is recruited into ‘Vokoban’, a covert government unit that uses a mysterious new law to chase and convict paedophiles.  - Child's Play (novel)
  • Sent to a remote town as part of a covert training operation, De Ming is placed under the supervision of the local police captain, Xu Dachun.  - Kungfu Cyborg
  • With the help of Kedrov, Priabin finds the covert tracking station the army will use to control the laser satellite, and sabotages its orbital uplink.  - Winter Hawk
  • Dawson, in a meeting with the FBI and other Business Moguls, demands the release of Gold and Silver, two notorious murderers who were part of a covert government operation to test the survival rate of mercenaries in the jungles of South America.  - Golgo 13: The Professional
  • There is altruism on Ralph's side too as he is prepared to sacrifice himself rather than stand in Laurie's way and force him into his own lifestyle of covert sexuality and 'specialisation'.  - The Charioteer
  • They order camp elder Krämer, who is also the communists' covert leader, to organize the prisoners for transport.  - Naked Among Wolves (1963 film)
  • Jun and Six are dispatched on a covert mission to assess the Covenant's strength and discover an invasion force gathering on the planet.  - Halo: Reach
  • The player assumes the role of Calvin "WRAITH" Hopper leading a SEAL team in a covert operation in a matter of national security to track down and interrogate former KGB agent, Vasyli Gozorov, who is believed to be withholding information on a forthcoming attack with weapons of mass destruction.  - SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo 3
  • She is an intelligence officer involved in a number of sensitive and sometimes dangerous covert operations overseas.  - Fair Game (2010 film)
  • Meanwhile, Manticore is informed of the impending Solarian offensive through a covert channel on Beowulf.  - Mission of Honor
  • Ralph is heard suggesting the name "thin man dancing" for a covert operation.  - Glorious 39
  • Expository text explains that, since 1997, the United States military has been engaged in a covert war against "forces of unknown origin", and that "57 incidents have spread across Asia, Europe and Russia".  - The Phoenix Incident
  • Koltsov runs several covert operations while successfully passing all tests regarding his legendary status and does not give in to provocations of the counterintelligence.  - The Adjutant of His Excellency
  • Henke convinces a reluctant Queen Elizabeth to personally meet with Pritchart on the capitol planet of the neutral Kingdom of Torch, which had been established by a covert joint effort between Manticore and Haven in the book Crown of Slaves, during the truce that preceded the current conflict.  - Storm from the Shadows
  • Together they plan a covert mission and successfully retrieve the jewel.  - Goa (2010 film)
  • It is revealed, during the last subject's escape attempt, that the goal of the covert program is to achieve in human civilians a phenomenon similar to apoptosis in cells (a comparison noted in the film), by developing "civilian weapons" akin to suicide bombers.  - The Killing Room
  • Eager for revenge and the opportunity to remove their names from a secret CIA death list, the Losers regroup and conduct covert operations against the CIA and its interests, uncovering startling operations spearheaded by the enigmatic Max, whose influence within the CIA andS.  - The Losers (Vertigo)
  • He and his team cooperate with the Israeli Mossad, represented by their director of covert operations Susan Goodman (Alberta Watson).  - The Soldier (1982 film)
  • Ben Kamen is Jewish, gay and a latent telepath, while Mary Wooler, and her son Gary, and daughter-in-law Hilda, work on covert projects for the British Army, endeaviouring to discover how to dislodge the Nazi presence from the "Protectorate of Albion" in the southeast.  - Weaver (Baxter novel)
  • A solar powered stratellite network is deployed just below the ionosphere, allowing Cobra to maintain a covert worldwide communication network.  - G.I. Joe: Resolute
  • Christmas is approaching, and while out shopping with Roz and looking for a menorah for his son, Frasier makes a covert attempt to purchase a sweater for Roz.  - Merry Christmas, Mrs. Moskowitz
  • Located in the Greater Tokyo Area, is said to house several departments of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department that operate under secret circumstances for covert missions.  - Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo
  • Caught up in the middle of a massive NATO military exercise, they meet the US Navy Admiral Burnett (Johnson) who pulls them along into the largest covert military operation in Norwegian history.  - Lange Flate Ballær 2
  • Meanwhile, the US government authorizes a covert deployment of two EB-52 Megafortresses to patrol over the Taiwan Strait and keep watch on the situation.  - Fatal Terrain
  • He struggles to deal with his perceived disability while training to be a Cursor of the crown, the First Lord's messengers and covert agents through the realm.  - Academ's Fury
  • A covert Qing agent, Luo has been ordered to assassinate Sun, but his rebellious fiancee Xu Dan Rong becomes attracted to Sun's cause.  - Road to Dawn
  • He later gets picked up under a covert Governmental program jointly conceived by RAW and Intelligence Bureau to carry out political assassinations.  - Chamku
  • Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) covert military strike against one of the head members of the Italy-based terrorist cell “The Legion” succeeds, and the strike team manages to obtain a laptop which bears blueprints for the Staples Center in Los Angeles which is currently hosting the Republican National Convention.  - Dead Heat (Rosenberg novel)
  • The final part of the book, which was originally published as a magazine story, takes up the tale after civilization has been rebuilt with the covert help of the Arisians.  - Triplanetary (novel)
  • In a stunning turn of events immediately following the covert portion of the case, headlines around the world report Whitacre had embezzled $9 million from his own company during the same period of time he was secretly working with the FBI and taping his co-workers, while simultaneously aiming to be elected as ADM CEO following the arrest and conviction of the remaining upper management members.  - The Informant!
  • Here he encounters a corrupt and effeminate aristocracy, a brewing power struggle over the succession, a covert revolution, a secret subway known only to the Directors—and Wu and Lil, at every turn displaying more mysterious knowledge and capability.  - Star Bridge
  • However, the events bring forward Larsen (Oleg Yankovsky), an undercover detective who is tracking the activities of the covert film crew and their connection to a shadowy criminal mastermind called "The Reaper".  - Mute Witness
  • The briefcase contained details about the phenol plot and other covert activities to indirectly aid the German war effort.  - Great Phenol Plot
  • Oscar Padilla, member of an elite military unit designed for covert operations.  - Purple Heart (film)
  • Gregor and ImpSec decide to put the Dendarii on permanent secret retainer for covert missions, with Miles officially installed as liaison.  - The Vor Game
  • Ten years after a covert military experiment on a remote Pacific island went wrong and killed eighteen servicemen and his assistant, dr Richard Long (David Paymer) is still trying to forget the havoc and death that his experiment caused.  - Chill Factor (film)
  • They are both arrested and it's revealed that there is a telescreen hidden behind a picture on the wall in their room, and that the charmingly old-fashioned and seemingly sensitive proprietor of the pawn shop, mr Charrington (Cyril Cusack), is a covert agent of the Thought Police.  - Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984 film)
  • A plot based on espionage and covert violence is set against the seemingly tranquil Scottish rural backdrop, a narrative device commonly found in Buchan’s novels.  - Huntingtower (novel)
  • A covert operation from Earth attempts to infiltrate Freehold, but the UNPF forces are grossly incompetent; they are mostly eliminated by automated defenses or captured by citizens or regular FMF military.  - Freehold (novel)
  • When she discovers a fellow mother at her son's school, Erica Van Doren (Vera Farmiga) is working as a covert operative for the CIA and recently returned from Venezuela, where she was investigating an assassination attempt on the President of the United States, she confronts her and requests confirmation.  - Nothing but the Truth (2008 American film)
  • They head south towards Rhiminee, where Seregil will report on his mission to the wizard Nysander, the head of a covert group of spies known as "Watchers".  - Luck in the Shadows
  • The player character is a covert agent operating region of space where an antagonistic race of aliens known as the Skeetch are gaining power.  - Protostar: War on the Frontier
  • Ruiz, a Mestizo vaquero associated with the Mission, begins a covert relationship with the Esselen girl, sneaking her out of the nunnery at night.  - The Lariat
  • Scully confronts Leamus about this being a covert government weapons test.  - The Pine Bluff Variant
  • Because this serious, mature and reflective teenager is just as alone as Alejandro when they met, she insinuates herself into his life and a strange, overpowering relationship develops between them, at first platonic but later with covert sexual overtones.  - The Nest (1980 film)
  • While on assignment in Nigeria, covert operative Michael Westen learns that he's been "burned".  - Pilot (Burn Notice)
  • It is revealed that Samir is working under deep cover for a US intelligence contractor, Carter (Jeff Daniels); Samir is devastated when he learns that despite Carter's covert efforts, innocent people perished in the consulate bombing.  - Traitor (film)
  • They regroup and stage a second, more covert attack, but they are spotted and beaten back again with snowballs soaked in ink.  - The Dog Who Stopped the War
  • In Seanberry, Virginia reveal to Mortimer that she is sleeper agent (aka 'cousin') in the service of Blake and officer that the betrayal of the latter is just a covert operation to infiltrate the spy network.  - The Francis Blake Affair
  • Tionne finds several vague references to a "Renegade Squadron" and its commander, Col Serra, who were apparently involved in covert ops missions during the war.  - Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron
  • A covert branch of the CIA calls on notorious Black Ops agent Stanley Cashay, who has been barely existing in a semi-comatose twilight since the murder of his wife.  - Modus Operandi (film)
  • Jones then plans a covert attack on Rangoon's primary estate ending in a one-on-one fight scene between Rangoon and Jones as the senator's daughter hung over a pit of tigers.  - Hot Potato (1976 film)
  • With Number Two's twenty-year sentence ending, Thomas fears that the released Number Two will return to the Village and that what he does there will break open the secrecy of British covert operations.  - Shattered Visage
  • With these words, Susanne sets an ambiguous covert plot into motion, alerting the members of the terrorist cell of an upcoming meeting.  - The Third Generation (1979 film)
  • Frank Blacksmith is given approval to unleash his covert "Tactical Stream" of super soldiers, which engage the Guns at their old base.  - Black Summer
  • The International Psychic Power Group is a covert organization financed by the United Nations.  - ESPY (film)
  • Blake then explains to Hale that he is part of "Project Abraham", a covert effort to create human soldiers infused with the Chimera virus, known as Sentinels.  - Resistance 2
  • Lirwani agents launch a covert strike to abduct Tess and assassinate the King and Queen.  - Wren's War
  • Once inside Ryan and his friends prepare to make a covert assault on the General and his gang, but their plans go awry when two of the Navaho loudly charge a group of raiders (in order to battle "honorably") and are killed without inflicting a single casualty.  - Rider, Reaper
  • fighter group, led by Cyanide, revealing his covert infiltration of the Japanese military and offering his services to the American forces.  - We've Never Been Licked
  • Left in the city for the summer by herself, she pursues a covert romance with Clyde Manzer, a Jewish parking lot attendant, whom she had noticed several months earlier.  - Summer Crossing
  • The US government is concerned that several of its covert military operations and diplomatic initiatives are being exposed resulting in the deaths of military personnel and allies and compromising foreign policy.  - The Chinese Paymaster
  • In a live video conference, Washington bureaucrats ignore Gibbs' recommendations about using a covert insertion to board the vessel Pinpin Pula is on instead of attempting to openly search it because of a fear of negative publicity.  - Hiatus (NCIS)
  • Liz grows dissatisfied in her covert relationship with Gerald, who has been hiding her from his family, and decides to leave him.  - Prudence and the Pill
  • The story centers on two Dutch men codenamed Tamar and Dart, who are agents of a covert military group called the Special Operations Executive, or SOE.  - Tamar (novel)
  • The covert world of government 'Ghost Squad' agent Daniel Leight (Jason Connery) comes crashing down when he is critically injured in a building collapse triggered by the genetically mutated terrorist called Python (Daniel Goddard).  - Lightspeed (film)
  • Darman then goes to Sull’s apartment where he is assaulted by clone covert operations troopers.  - Star Wars Republic Commando: True Colors
  • Marshall uncovers CTX, a covert military drug so secret that an arm of the military headed by a man named Werner (Danny Webb) wants Marshall eliminated.  - Attack Force (film)
  • Sniper Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger) is hired by NSA officials William Avery (Denis Arndt) and Richard Addis (William Duffy) to perform a covert operation to eliminate a suspected terrorist kingpin in the People's Republic of Vietnam who was providing support for Jemaah Islamiyah.  - Sniper 3
  • Jonathan Shale (Berenger) is a mercenary and a Vietnam veteran who returns home to Miami after a botched covert operation in Cuba in which three men from his platoon were killed.  - The Substitute
  • O'Neill is ordered to obtain data from Hanssen's Palm Pilot and keep him occupied while FBI agents search his car and plant covert listening devices in it.  - Breach (film)
  • An expert poisoner, Livia uses the covert assassination and betrayal of all rivals to achieve her aims, beginning with the death in 22 BC of Marcellus.  - I, Claudius (TV series)
  • Meanwhile, Kes makes a covert transmission to the Vidiians, who are currently in conflict with Voyagers crew.  - Fury (Star Trek: Voyager)
  • The two stories concerns their various covert missions across Europe and Africa and their relevance to the Allied victory.  - Adventures in the Rifle Brigade
  • He asks Kabamaru to train him and his friends in the ninja arts so they can fight back, but Kabamaru's popularity and Ran's enthusiasm over his involvement lead to the entire school volunteering for ninja training in the Iga mountains, ruining Shizune's covert plans.  - Igano Kabamaru
  • He quickly determines that a cover-up is underway by at least one covert Imperial agency.  - Orca (novel)
  • Later that night, Hutch arrives at Aubrey's home in secret to meet with Campion; the two had previously arranged a covert mission into the nearby town of Bridge.  - Traitor's Purse
  • Sten is thrust into a world of espionage, covert military actions, and galactic politics.  - The Sten Chronicles
  • It is reported that while in opposition, he was subjected to covert surveillance, including phone tapping.  - The Death List
  • Archie persuades Lily Rowan to pose as Roeder's mistress so that the three of them can use her apartment as a covert meeting place.  - In the Best Families
  • The local people had called this the return of dragons, a local myth that had revolved around covert smelting and metal working by the Pendragons, a local tribe.  - The Skystone
  • In the meeting of SMC Alpha on July 15, the recruitment had been reported as led by a covert fraternity called the “New Filipino Heroes” who were advocating the adoption of the NRP of Honasan.  - Oakwood mutiny
  • Van discovers the problem and through a covert military-like attack on the source, puts an end to it.  - The Zenith Angle
  • Jumong becomes skilled in combat under Haemosu's covert tutelage, but is unaware of their father-son relationship.  - Jumong (TV series)
  • The Masters launch a covert attack on a small human settlement, killing ColonelD.  - Robotech: The Movie
  • After a brief stopover at his father Lord Allendale's estate, where Laurence reveals his new profession to his family, Temeraire and Laurence arrive in the covert of Loch Laggan.  - His Majesty's Dragon
  • After three days of shelling, Loggins suggests to Harris that they should infiltrate the village on a covert mission to observe from a church tower in the middle of town; Loggins goes in to see the Colonel who says he'll pass the idea on up to Headquarters.  - Kings Go Forth
  • Patterson is informed by Chad Harmon that his and his father's achievements were not their own, but covert favors bestowed at the behest of the Brotherhood.  - The Brotherhood of the Bell
  • Nizam sends a group of covert and seemingly mystical warriors, the Hassansins, to kill Dastan and find the dagger.  - Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (film)
  • Rant becomes a Nighttimer and finds himself swept up in the Nighttimer lifestyle that revolves around "Party Crashing", a covert demolition derby played out on city streets at night.  - Rant (novel)
  • Fruin reveals to Ned all his equipment provided by Moscow Centre, including a custom-made pair of opera binoculars that doubled as a covert camera.  - The Secret Pilgrim
  • Daniela invites Caterina to join her at a wedding, where Caterina observes a group of neo-fascists pay homage to Daniela's father Manlio who, it is heavily implied, is a covert fascist himself.  - Caterina in the Big City
  • During Imperial Guards training, Sten proves to be square peg for the traditional military, but perfect for the super secret CIA-type covert branch of intelligence that Ian heads, called Mantis.  - Sten Adventures Book 1: Sten
  • Former CIA covert operative Nelson Crowe is hired by Vic Grimes for a position with his company nicknamed "The Toolshed," a firm which employs people with intelligence service backgrounds to sell their talents with regard to extortion and corporate espionage to domestic and foreign corporations.  - Bad Company (1995 film)
  • Luxa furiously exposes the covert military project.  - Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods
  • In The Fall of the Templar, the Black Wolf Army, now under the leadership of Max's father, attack the Templar, plunging the two forces into a covert and shadowy war.  - Grey Griffins
  • With the shooting resolved, the complex web linking many of those they have been investigating becomes clear to Rebus and Clarke: there has been drug-smuggling and money-laundering, the illegal reactivation of weapons, and the theft of diamonds intended to fund a covert government deal with Irish paramilitaries.  - A Question of Blood
  • Haywood inadvertently becomes the legendary "Doc the Heywood" after he guns down "Arnold the Kid" and performs other exploits (all with covert assistance from Penny).  - The Shakiest Gun in the West
  • The game begins with Jutah Fate, a war criminal, being drafted into a covert military operation by his home planet of Hornet.  - Silent Bomber
  • The novel opens rather dramatically with new characters and settings, then moves quickly to Ash March's abrupt and covert departure from Raif in order to join the Sull.  - A Fortress of Grey Ice
  • Leiser's role is to replace an MI6 agent who has already been murdered, and gather photographic intelligence on a covert East German rocket system - in violation of international agreements.  - The Looking Glass War (film)
  • Bennetts, who believes UNIT to be a covert anti-terrorist squad, agrees to submit his men for screening, and Sullivan soon identifies "Williams" as the CPO of the HMS Redoubt, a nuclear submarine which has been submerged in an experimental IDPF net for magnetic degaussing, and which will therefore be undetectable if the duplicates manage to escape.  - The Face of the Enemy (Doctor Who)
  • The player is tasked with various covert operations, including the destruction of the interstellar communications relay on Carver V's moon and strikes against House Davion and House Steiner designed to implicate each other.  - MechCommander 2
  • Ro offers to steal the needed supplies from the Enterprise, which she manages with some covert help from the crew.  - Preemptive Strike (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
  • Prior to taking a covert mission, Riker is rehearsing for a theater play "Frame of Mind" for the Enterprise.  - Frame of Mind (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
  • Eramus bites the writer, and in gratitude for the small "donation", takes his (basically unharmed but bewildered) victim to the titular club, which is a covert gathering place for a multitude of supernatural creatures.  - The Monster Club
  • Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), Worf (Michael Dorn), and Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) are assigned by Starfleet on a covert mission to destroy a Cardassian biological weapons installation on Celtris III, a Cardassian border world.  - Chain of Command (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
  • From his base in Great Britain, James Bulloch was the financier of covert Confederate naval operations within the British Empire.  - James Dunwoody Bulloch
  • Returning as Jan Templar, players are sent on a covert operation to save hostages captured by Metrac, while ISA troops continue the fight for liberty.  - Killzone: Liberation
  • However, Maxima trips some electric wires, plunging Southtown into a blackout and causing their covert activity to be noticed by Heidern and he sends Leona, Ralf and Clark to investigate.  - The King of Fighters: Another Day
  • The player is heading a covert investigation into NanotechDyne Inc, a pharmaceutical company suspected of developing biochemical weapons.  - Spy Fiction
  • They have aligned themselves with the insidious Narn K Corporation, a powerful bioengineering firm specializing in controversial experimentation and covert weapons development, and have been busy producing animal-human hybrids and synthetic soldiers for use in warfare and ultimately global invasion.  - Nocturnals
  • Sub-Commander T'Pol receives a covert mission from the Vulcan High Command, and informs Captain Archer that Admiral Forrest will be contacting him later about it.  - The Seventh
  • The player's initial objective is to rescue a covert agent codenamed Spider, who has been captured in one of the enemy's bases.  - Laser Invasion
  • Just before Riker can obtain the wormhole rights, the Ferengi threaten to destroy the wormhole, claiming that an "informed source" has told them that the Federation has made a covert pact with the Barzan premier.  - The Price (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
  • As the Joes celebrate their victory, a new group of rookie Joes are brought onto the team, including the unlucky kunoichi Jinx, military police officer Law and his dog Order, former basketball player Big Lob, EOD specialist Tunnel Rat, covert operative Chuckles, and Duke's reckless half-brother, the green beret lt Falcon.  - G.I. Joe: The Movie
  • After Nathaniel fails to clean up his room after his attempted summoning, Underwood discovers Nathaniel's covert operation and confiscates his summoning paraphernalia and notes detailing his plot against Lovelace.  - The Amulet of Samarkand
  • government covert agency called Consular Operations.  - The Janson Directive
  • The plot concerns Drew Latham, a special officer for consular operations, who must discover why his brother was killed after a covert mission.  - The Apocalypse Watch
  • The Chancellor expresses his concerns to Picard about the Federation's covert intrusions, but accepts Picard's explanation of why the Federation does this.  - First Contact (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
  • Mike Locken (James Caan) and George Hansen (Robert Duvall) are best friends and private contractors for a private intelligence agency, Communications Integrity or ComTeg, which handles covert assignments for the CIA.  - The Killer Elite
  • Instead, Janeway suggests a covert one-man mission to the planet.  - Blink of an Eye (Star Trek: Voyager)
  • Wetworks is a covert operations team in the Wildstorm Universe, designated Team 7, led by Colonel Jackson Dane, who was a member of the original Team 7.  - Wetworks
  • Kongrosian can play piano using only his telekinetic abilities; Nicole Thibodeaux is anxious to keep him under control, as are Wilder Pembroke, head of the National Police, and members of the covert national governance council.  - The Simulacra
  • Ka-Kui plants a covert listening device in the mall property company's office to try to learn more about the bombers.  - Police Story 2
  • At the debriefing, it is revealed that the New Republic MPs were in fact covert agents working for Warlord Zsinj.  - Iron Fist (novel)
  • Later on October 10, their helicopter crew is deployed to Syria for a covert operation.  - Kippur
  • Against all odds, the controversial Wraith Squadron has survived its first covert mission.  - Star Wars: X-wing (book series)
  • With his military training, and some leftovers of the war secretly buried on the estate, Blott begins a covert campaign including blackmail and wire tapping to scrutinize Sir Giles's activities on Maud's behalf and to undermine the construction of the motorway.  - Blott on the Landscape
  • Akamatsu Industries, a group designated to research and counteract Algernon, head a covert squadron of Neuronoids, robots piloted by Dual Kinds to inspect areas exposed to contamination and neutralize any threats brought thereabout.  - Betterman (TV series)
  • As Leonidas angrily departs, a messenger from Xerxes appears, rewarding the Ephors for their covert support.  - 300 (film)
  • Boris congratulates Wallace for his impressive covert skills and gives him a souvenir pistol, telling Wallace he will continue his butcher shop business.  - The Man Who Knew Too Little
  • Avner, an adept Israeli military officer is selected as the leader of a Mossad team of expert agents for a covert mission to avenge the Munich massacre and other recent terrorist acts.  - Sword of Gideon
  • The waiters preoccupy themselves with endless gossip, complaining about the customers, seeking covert revenge on particularly rude or annoying patrons, and playing a special kind of game which involves flashing genitalia at a fellow worker (the "Penis Showing Game").  - Waiting... (film)
  • They are interrupted and captured by a covert organisation calling themselves the Arsenal Of Democracy, who have arrived for the same reason.  - Weapon Zero
  • A modern-day Frankenstein, he wages a one-man war, taking out the mob, the police and his covert government creators, in his struggle to find out who he was and what he has become.  - Bloodshot (comics)
  • wartime covert activities in Latin America were directed by the FBI's Special Intelligence Service).  - The FBI Story
  • Furiously rejecting any notion that she is Cardassian, Kira is introduced to Tekeny Ghemor, an officer of the Central Command, who claims that she is his daughter Iliana; Entek explains that she is a 'sleeper agent', altered to appear Bajoran and placed in a position of authority with the Federation as part of a long-term covert operation.  - Second Skin (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
  • After the US cut their funding and left them exposed, she took pity on the few of them who had not yet been slaughtered by Hussein's forces, and arranged for them to escape to the United States, ultimately leading to the present situation as they turn their covert and bomb making skills on the country that now holds their Sheikh.  - The Siege (1998 film)
  • Later, Odo (René Auberjonois) spots Tahna with the Duras sisters (Barbara March and Gwynyth Walsh) making covert discussions.  - Past Prologue
  • State Department that had been selling covert secrets to China.  - U.S. Marshals (film)
  • The series featured English actor Edward Woodward as Robert McCall, a former covert operations officer of an unnamed US government intelligence organization, which was often referred to simply as "The Agency" or "The Company" (it is implied that it is the CIA), who tries to atone for his past by offering, free of charge, his services as a troubleshooter, a protector, and an investigator.  - The Equalizer (TV series)
  • On one of these raids to the Coruscant system, the Star Destroyer Liberator (formerly the HIMS Adjudicator, an Imperial-class Star Destroyer captured at the Battle of Endor and, over a five-year period, repaired and beefed-up for covert missions) its sister ship, the Emancipator (originally the Accuser), three Star Destroyers demanded novel and unusual codes for clearance.  - Dark Empire I
  • Now equipped with new technology, the GLA launches a series of covert operations in the Mediterranean, aimed at destroying the US Fleet based there, including the USS Ronald Reagan, a powerful super carrier.  - Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour
  • Neil Shaw (Snipes) is an operative for the United Nations's covert dirty-tricks squad, using espionage and quasi-ethical tactics to secure peace and cooperation.  - The Art of War (film)
  • The patients are rendered brain dead via covert carbon monoxide poisoning, through a pipe that leads from the basement to the OR.  - Coma (1978 film)
  • The Graff learns of Garron's deception when he discovers a covert listening device in his room.  - The Ribos Operation
  • The cleansing of the Isthmus of bandits is a complete success and the two attempts by Xanthos to kill Theseus through the covert efforts of others fail.  - The King Must Die
  • He undertakes a covert campaign of sabotage of his own work, leaving notes and graffiti signed under his nom de guerre Piet Hein (a reference to the Dutch naval hero Piet Hein, whose victory over a Spanish "Silver Fleet" gives the film its title).  - The Silver Fleet
  • The Navy does not believe his story and it appears his career is over until he is recruited to command a covert mission to tap an underwater cable lying between North Korea and mainland China.  - Phantom Below
  • The structure for the story is linear without any branching paths for alternate storylines, though there are optional covert missions which can further flesh out the story.  - FreeSpace 2
  • Doyle (Ray Liotta) the delicate nature of Vietnamese customs as well as the counter intelligence involving covert enemy activity.  - Operation Dumbo Drop
  • A British Government secret agent incognito in the stranded passengers' midst is then revealed, who confronts the revolutionary gang in a gun battle on the station, and the revolutionaries' covert operation is defeated.  - The Ghost Train (play)
  • When Leclerc requests assistance, Smiley and the Circus are alerted to the The Department's new covert activities.  - The Looking Glass War
  • Sandecker agrees to do covert work for the government, who in exchange would funds NUMA.  - Sahara (2005 film)
  • Jason Wynn (Martin Sheen), the head of the covert government agency for which Simmons works, assigns him to infiltrate a biochemical weapons plant in North Korea.  - Spawn (film)
  • The training mission ordered by West was a covert Section 8 operation to circumvent Mueller and Kendall, faking West's death in order to transfer him to Section 8.  - Basic (film)
  • Claire learns Tom's real name is Ronald Chapman, and she is shocked to discover he was a covert military operative serving in the Marines and has been on the run for the past twelve years.  - High Crimes
  • While Honor leads her crew in battles against various pirates, the Havenites are also conducting covert commerce raiding in Silesia, in an attempt to destabilize Manticoran trade in the region and present themselves in a more favorable light to the Andermani.  - Honor Among Enemies
  • Over the next few months, Nelson's school is picketed in a vengeful attempt to force his resignation (a campaign that includes vicious covert harassment of Nelson and his family at their home).  - G.B.H. (TV series)
  • In the twilight, the three hares embark on a covert mission to the pirate camp.  - Mariel of Redwall
  • Outside the base, the Doctor and Ace discover a covert squad of Soviet commandos, led by Captain Sorin, who are seeking to capture Ultima; the Doctor warns them to lie low, while Ace and Sorin become smitten with each other.  - The Curse of Fenric
  • She receives her covert assignments from Frank Morgan (Will Patton), and later from Oliver Sampson (Anthony Head).  - VR.5
  • Reeve explains to Vincent that the soldiers were members of Deepground, a military organization created as part of a covert Shinra operation to create genetically enhanced super soldiers.  - Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
  • Ecks agrees and realizes Sever must be an orphan Chinese girl the DIA adopted to train as a covert operative and assassin with "no fear, no conscience and no morality".  - Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
  • In this manner, Ethan becomes able to control the covert dealings of the corrupt town businessmen and politicians, but he is confident that he will not be corrupted.  - The Winter of Our Discontent
  • When the death of city councilwoman Diane McNeely turns out to be more than just a random murder, Murphy begins his own covert investigation.  - Blue Thunder
  • Redrick's old friend Richard Noonan (a supply contractor with offices inside the Institute), is revealed as a covert operative of an unnamed, presumably governmental, secret organization working to stop the contraband outflow of artifacts from the Zone.  - Roadside Picnic
  • It is learned that Sigma has grown from a simple attempt to plunder the Nazi treasury and stabilize the industrial and financial state of the world in the wake of the war, to a political and financial machine which controls as many as 75% of the world's leading companies, and has enough covert political clout to directly influence the outcome of the likes of Presidential elections.  - The Sigma Protocol
  • Nick Fury gathered Captain America, Iron Man, Luke Cage, and other heroes to form a covert Avengers squad to attack the new government; this failed and Nick Fury wiped the group's memory of the incident.  - Avengers Disassembled
  • They work for a covert organization referred to as "The Center", which covertly protects the people of Earth from supernatural threats.  - Martin Mystery
  • The British take advantage of Vittorio's business skills during World War II, establishing a covert network of displaced European professionals, whose purpose is to discreetly sabotage the business processes of the German war machine: Shipping fiascos and printing mistakes, resulting in mild chaos in the back office of the war effort.  - The Gemini Contenders
  • Set prior to the start of the original Medal of Honor game, Underground follows Manon's journey from a naive member of one of France's first resistance movements to that of a seasoned veteran recruited by the OSS, going on covert missions in occupied Europe and Africa, including the destruction of a Tobruk supply base, destruction of coastal guns in Crete, stealing important documents from Heinrich Himmler's castle, rescuing prisoners of war from Monte Cassino and the sabotage of a V-1 flying bomb factory.  - Medal of Honor: Underground
  • During a nighttime, covert operation from more than behind enemy lines, Hambleton was finally rescued in a land operation byS.  - Bat*21
  • There, Burke and other instructors teach the candidates the skill sets of espionage, covert operation protocols, and intelligence gathering techniques.  - The Recruit
  • In response, the US sends in a covert special forces team to investigate, but the team is obliterated by armed resistance.  - Metal Gear Acid
  • After he uses his emergency powers to interrupt the broadcast, he not only ends the violence, but also brings forth a series of events that causes the Plex to send in covert agents, the death of Hilton, and the unveiling of Q-USA, a secret TV station owned and operated by Krieger that opens Flagg's eyes to the nature of the Plex.  - American Flagg!
  • Army Rangers, and the intelligence and military officials involved in the covert operation are arrested.  - Spies Like Us
  • Following Dumbledore's death, Voldemort consolidates his support and power, including covert control of the Ministry of Magic, while Harry is about to turn seventeen, losing the protection of his home.  - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  • While Smiley does research at the Circus, Esterhase sets up a covert team in Bern to keep Grigoriev under observation.  - Smiley's People
  • Kolp considers this covert trip by Caesar an act of espionage.  - Battle for the Planet of the Apes
  • Army Sergeant First Class Aaron Hallam (Benicio del Toro), a former United States clandestine operator, has spent much of his career performing covert assassinations in service to the government.  - The Hunted (2003 film)
  • Aboard the flagship, Maturin receives letters for his covert mission in France.  - The Yellow Admiral
  • episodes 109, 115), but with superior military strategies, covert operations and disinformation (episodes 113, 121), the humans are able to gain an upper hand and are able to launch major offensives (episodes 122, 123), although neither the War nor the story arc concludes at the end of the series.  - Space: Above and Beyond
  • In addition, the pair must stay one step ahead of Majestic 12, a covert government agency that has mixed motives.  - Dark Skies
  • Despite further damage, the raid is successful, and Enterprise heads for the covert rendezvous.  - Damage (Star Trek: Enterprise)
  • Master, previously unaware of this covert deal to kill Blaster, is furious and vows to shut down the refinery and, by extension, Bartertown.  - Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
  • Yaskov also pursues Kendig for his insider knowledge on all CIA covert operations.  - Hopscotch (film)
  • They also uncover the true culprits: the Holy Alliance, a union of France and Spain controlling almost everything from the Rio Grande to Cape Horn, and Bushell's superior officer and covert fanatic Sons of Liberty sympathizer, Lieutenant General Horace Bragg.  - The Two Georges
  • Ryan decides to retire from the CIA, but not before he puts together a covert operation to uncover corrupt dealings between Japanese and Mexican government officials.  - The Sum of All Fears (novel)
  • However, Leland's interest is piqued when he hears about corporate secrets being leaked, and he hires his son Patrick, a soldier with covert military expertise, to manage security.  - Toys (film)
  • Its further work on Earth will be conducted in a much more covert manner.  - Chocky
  • When Malone appears in court and is about to unmask "Lorelei" as Dorothy, she reveals to Malone in covert language that she, Dorothy, loves him but would never forgive him if he were to do anything to hurt her best friend, Lorelei.  - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film)
  • The plot is called Treadstone Seventy-One, and the truth is known only to eight men selected by covert agencies of theS.  - The Bourne Identity (novel)
  • The series follows Sousuke Sagara, a member of a covert anti-terrorist private military organization known as Mithril, tasked with protecting Kaname Chidori, a spirited Japanese high school girl.  - Full Metal Panic!
  • He is secretly opposed by a covert group of wealthy businessmen and politicians called the Noisy Bridge Rod and Gun Club.  - Little, Big
  • When the Gundam turns up in a Federation R&D base inside the neutral space colony Side 6, the Principality launches a covert operation to destroy the Gundam utilizing the commando team originally dispatched to assault the Arctic base, including young rookie Bernard "Bernie" Wiseman (バーナード・ワイズマン Bānādo Waizuman; バーニィ Bāni).  - Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
  • The mayor decides to pay and tells Callahan to deliver the money with no tricks, but the inspector wears a covert listening device, brings a switchblade, and has his partner follow him.  - Dirty Harry
  • The French secret service, particularly its covert operations directorate (the "Action Service"), is remarkably effective in infiltrating the terrorist organisation with their own informants, allowing them to capture and neutralise the terrorists' chief of operations, Antoine Argoud.  - The Day of the Jackal
  • Using the covert operations skills he learned in the military, he prepares to wage a private war with Tucker and his drug ring.  - Without Remorse
  • They form La Resistance and Gregory tells Stan to recruit a God-hating French expert on covert operations named "The Mole" ("La Resistance").  - South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
  • The Eddorians do not detect the Arisians, who begin a covert breeding program on every world that can produce intelligent life, with particular emphasis on the four planets Earth (Tellus), Velantia III, Rigel IV, and Palain VII, in the hope of creating a race that is capable of destroying the Eddorians.  - Lensman series
  • At the same time, the CIA assigns another operative in South Africa for a more covert operation.  - Who Am I? (1998 film)
  • Simultaneously, the Soviets seize Iceland in a covert surprise attack with the Soviet merchant ship Julius Fucik disguised as a Lykes Lines American LASH ship, capturing the NATO air station at Keflavík and eliminating the GIUK-SOSUS line to allow the Soviet Navy to surge its submarines into the Atlantic Ocean without being detected.  - Red Storm Rising
  • Meanwhile, the Councilwoman relieves Jumba and Pleakley of their assignment, freeing Jumba to pursue Stitch using less covert methods.  - Lilo & Stitch
  • Harry Tasker leads a double life; while his wife Helen and daughter Dana believe him to be a run-of-the-mill computer salesman, he is actually a black operative for a covert counter-terrorism task force known as Omega Sector.  - True Lies
  • As the sailors recapture the ship, Ryback finds his way into the control room, where he is surprised by Strannix, both of whom recognizing each other from prior covert experiences.  - Under Siege
  • In 1969, Nico was recruited into the CIA by Special Agent Nelson Fox and was involved in covert operations on the Vietnamese-Cambodian border during the Vietnam War.  - Above the Law (film)
  • The president initiates covert operations within Colombia and a step-up of operations against aircraft believed to be distributing narcotics.  - Clear and Present Danger
  • Mannie, Wyoh, and de la Paz thereafter form covert cells, protected by Mike, who adopts the persona of "Adam Selene", leader of the movement, and communicates via the telephone system.  - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  • Along with covert support from China and India, they plot to curtail the American presence in the Pacific and re-establish the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.  - Debt of Honor
  • In addition, Silvia Sadassa is a character who claims that Ferris Fremont is actually a communist covert agent recruited by Sadassa's mother when Fremont was still a teenager.  - Radio Free Albemuth

Example sentences for "covert" in interesting articles

  • We were also pretty good at stealing research from other countries via covert means.  - Indian OS
  • It was only a decade later, in 1977, that news of the CIA-IB covert operation and the missing plutonium first broke in the international media, in the American magazine Outside.  - The Nanda Devi mystery – Plutonium lost on India’s second highest mountain
  • We hope this inspires them to reflect upon the responsibility we all bear to ensure our liberties exist long into the future. In 2013, the Snowden leaks exposed an expansive, covert surveillance program that spied on U.S.  - Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Monument in Brooklyn
  • After an evidentiary hearing, the judge wanted more information about the specific surveillance equipment the government was using, details the government was unsuccessful in keeping secret.  Today Judge Shea issued this brief minute order: Law enforcement's warrantless and constant covert video surveillance of Defendant's rural front yard is contrary to the public's reasonable expectation of privacy and violates Defendant's Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable search.  - Federal Court Throws Out Six Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance
  • The court ruled that the wiretapping law granted no exception for citizens recording police officers. The state’s lower courts have interpreted that ruling as applying only to covert recordings of police: People get convicted of secretly recording police, while charges against people who record police openly have generally been thrown out.  - The War on Cameras
  • And so it is that digital rights management always converges on malware. [[1118.9]] There was, of course, this famous incident, a kind of gift to people who have this hypothesis, in which Sony loaded covert rootkit installers on 6 million audio CDs, which secretly executed programs that watched for attempts to read the sound files on CDs, and terminated them, and which also hid the rootkit's existence by causing the kernel to lie about which processes were running, and which files were present on the drive.  - The Coming War on General Computation (2011)
  • Since 2004, the CIA has carried out hundreds of strikes in Pakistani territory, cutting secret deals with Pakistani intelligence to operate a covert assassination program.  - Confessions of a Drone Warrior
  • Digital rights management always converges on malware. In one famous incident—a gift to people who share this hypothesis—Sony loaded covert rootkit installers on 6 million audio CDs, which secretly executed programs that watched for attempts to read the sound files on CDs and terminated them.  - Lockdown - The coming war on general-purpose computing
  • Good thing is that academics should usually be fine, academic freedom is still a significant protection and I don't think you can coerce somebody decent to go against his or her own field to this degree by refusing to fund projects. Nicholas Weaver says: September 23, 2013 at 3:02 pm I suspect bribery, either (unlikely) overt (to perhaps just a single programmer) or more likely covert (“Make this the default for government sales”).  - RSA warns developers not to use RSA products
  • We can have a civil society electronically without the possibility of covert mass surveillance.” Inventing Anonymity Chaum’s quest for a shield against Internet surveillance began before most of the world was even aware of the Internet at all.  - David Chaum Has a Plan to End the Crypto War
  • “When did the plant mature? What’s its development profile? How did it respond to such-and-such disease?” This is what Mo appeared to be doing: setting up his own covert test farm, one that he could oversee personally.FBI surveillance teams followed Mo to Crossroads Ag, a DuPont Pioneer seed dealer in Dallas Center, Iowa, and observed him loading bags of seeds into his trunk.  - Corn Wars
  • The OCB, which oversaw covert activities, gave the CIA exclusive control over the novel’s “exploitation.” The “hand of the United States government” was “not to be shown in any manner,” according to the records.  - During Cold War, CIA used ‘Doctor Zhivago’ as a tool to undermine Soviet Union
  • Kim on a covert communications plan that involved" emails from his gmail account.The affidavit states that FBI agents had tracked Rosen’s entrances and exits of the State Department in order to show that they had coincided with Kim’s movements.  - Holder OK'd search warrant for Fox News reporter's private emails, official says
  • investigating potential covert Russian plan to disrupt November elections business technology the-switch true Please provide a valid email address.  - Verizon just raised a big warning flag for Yahoo
  • An interesting feature of this war is that since both sides look and speak more or less alike, covert insertion and operation is easier for each side—but especially so for North Korean agents who may move freely within South Korea’s open society. Some DPRK SOF will have been pre-positioned.  - Thunder Run to Seoul: Assessing North Korea’s War Plan
  • This, sources say, is different from the US NSA's Prism because this would not be a covert operation. National security adviser (NSA) Shivshankar Menon had flagged off a set of recommendations for government-private sector collaboration on cybersecurity last October and that forms the basis of the new architecture.  - New cyber security body to rope in ISPs - India
  • The Library and a few good teachers are what kept me from dropping out. It's a shame that the football team got a bigger budget than the Library. Petty acts of rebellion--and innocent little covert activities--kept our spirits up.  - Seen Not Heard: How Obscure Security Makes Schools Suck

Meaning of "covert" in English

  • secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed
    Example
    - covert funding for the rebels
  • (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband
  • a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
    Examples
    - under cover of darkness
    - the brush provided a covert for game
    - the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background
  • a flock of coots

Meaning of "covert" in Hindi

  • आड ( Aad)
  • बचाव का स्थान ( Bachav ka sthan, bachaav kaa sthan, bachaw ka sthan)
  • बचाव ( Bachav, bachaav, bachaw)
  • कुञ्ज ( Kunjj, kunzz)
  • झाडी ( Jhadi, jhaadee, zhadi)
  • आड़ ( Aad)
  • आश्रय ( Aashray)
  • झाड़ी ( Jhadi, jhaadee, zhadi)
  • छिपा हुआ ( Chhipa hu, chhipaa huaa)
  • गुप्त ( Gupt)
  • आवृत ( Aavrit, aawrit)
  • अप्रकट ( Aprakat)
  • खण्ड ( Khand)
  • झाड़ ( Jhad, jhaad, zhad)
  • बनावटी ( Banavati, banaavatee, banawati)
  • विवाहिता ( Vivahita, vivahitaa, wiwahita)
  • ध्वनित ( Dhvanit, dhwanit)
  • पत्याश्रिता ( Patyashrita, patyaashritaa)
  • अवच्छद ( Avachchhad, awachchhad)
  • पतिआश्रिता ( Patiashrita, patiaashritaa)

Synonyms of "covert"

  • concealment
  • screen
  • cover

Antonyms of "covert"

  • overt
  • open

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