Sentences with phrase «thinly veiled swipe»

(Director Abderrahmane Sissako was also currently shooting material, but forwarded a few remarks that included a thinly veiled swipe at Donald Trump and implied that the enlightened minds of the NYFCC represented the real America.)

Palladino also took a thinly veiled swipe at Mayor Bill de Blasio and other city officials in apportioning blame for the Sunday afternoon incident at 1993 Atlantic Ave.

The former solder also makes a very thinly veiled swipe at the appointment of Gavin Williamson as defence secretary, saying that the appointment «seems to have sent a message to the military community... that I'm not 100 % comfortable with».

They included Scottish Conservatives leader Ruth Davidson who issued a thinly veiled swipe on social media.

After scoring a hat - trick for Spain in their 6 - 1 demolition of Argentina on Tuesday, Isco hit out over his lack of playing time at Real Madrid and took a thinly veiled swipe at his club coach Zinedine Zidane.

It's a thinly veiled swipe at iRobot.

Bharara also took lots of thinly veiled swipes at President Trump, who fired him after first asking him to stay on in the role after he was elected president.

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He also took a thinly - veiled swipe at his shadow cabinet colleagues who had come up with various reasons why Labour lost the Copeland by - election «I thought the loss in Copeland was really serious.

In a thinly - veiled swipe at Eton - educated David Cameron, the one - time leadership rival told a meeting on grammer schools the only winners from the death of the selective education system were the public school boys who now «dominate» Britain.

And in a thinly - veiled but damning swipe at Mr Corbyn, he said Labour should reject the «misty - eyed romanticism about a revolution to overthrow capitalism and a socialist nirvana».

Last week Prime Minister David Cameron said tax avoiders «need to wake up and smell the coffee», perceived as a thinly - veiled swipe at the company.

His comments, in an interview with The House magazine, will be interpreted as a thinly - veiled swipe at Jeremy Corbyn's strategy.