Sentences with phrase «through covert»

Extant research has revealed that heritability estimates fluctuate depending on whether aggression is measured through covert behaviors or overt behaviors [40].

It is through his covert work you discover a missing scientist (Dr Kirk) is alive and well, and is leading the research into Third Energy.

As a result, GAO attempted to (1) determine through covert testing whether these allegations are accurate; and, if so, (2) determine whether they are widespread, citing specific closed cases.

Through her covert observations, Rose learned that the one with the red Speedo was called Zik, and the one in the baggies was Zak.

On paper The Drop reads like your average crime drama - it follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski through a covert scheme of funneling cash to local gangster in Brooklin bars to the point where he finds himself at the centre of a botched robbery.

Based on a screenplay from Dennis Lehane (MYSTIC RIVER, GONE BABY GONE), THE DROP follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy) through a covert scheme of funneling cash to local gangsters — «money drops» — in the underworld of Brooklyn bars.

The film follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy) through a covert scheme of funneling cash to local gangsters - «money drops» - in the underworld of Brooklyn bars.

The latest underwear bomb found through the covert CIA operation is thought to be the work of Ibrahim Hassan al Asiri, who designed the original device.

How British democracy was subverted through a covert, far - reaching plan of coordination enabled by a US billionaire.

Not exact matches

The Church Committee exposed much of the program, with a full report from Congress stating: «The CIA currently maintains a network of several hundred foreign individuals around the world who provide intelligence for the CIA and at times attempt to influence opinion through the use of covert propaganda.

But even among those who might be expected to tut - tut an extramarital encounter and covert payment by the future president, the story of Ms. Clifford has struggled to break through entirely in recent days.

• Military activities against Nicaragua have included covert operations carried out through groups such as the National Security Council, the CIA, and other «secret teams» of mercenaries, arms merchants, and drug - runners.

However, the United States prefers to wage war through less visible, covert means (including participation of some of the SOF groups) and through the use of surrogate troops like the contras and the Salvadoran military.

Their primary method of contending with the Roman government was through terrorism and covert violence.

We'd become good friends through our church's youth group, and I'd developed a covert crush on him.

Through overt and covert means, political and religious leaders want to control religious impulses and reshape spiritual sensibilities.

Later, through the lips of her companion she made a brief response, thanking them for «a deed of generosity from the masters of knowledge and light to those who live under the covert of denial.»

Evidence of these eruptions showed up on distant seismometers, which measure waves passing through the ground to record earthquakes, and hydrophone arrays that pick up underwater sound to detect covert nuclear detonations.

Achieving that longer lead time requires blocking Iran's four routes to nuclear weapons: through its Natanz and Fordow uranium enrichment facilities, where thousands of centrifuges separate uranium isotopes; through plutonium production at the Arak heavy water reactor, which Iran says is needed to produce medical radioisotopes; and by way of a covert path involving undisclosed facilities.

Cortical cells appear to specifically covert kynurenine to kynurenic acid, which acts to decrease activity through acetylcholine antagonism.

It's as simple as unifying pieces within your wardrobe through a commonality, from the overt (checkerboard pumps) to the covert (sweater texture) and adding statement making studded purse, for good measure.

The stakes are now even higher for the agent as he coolly maneuvers through the dangerous waters of international espionage - replete with CIA plots, turncoat agents and ever - shifting covert alliances - all the while hoping to find the truth behind his haunted memories and answers to his own fragmented past.

Since the kids have about a hundred dollars to spend, they end up with Drillbit, who convinces them he's an ace covert black - ops agent and puts them through a bedraggled form of boot camp.

Seal finds himself in charge of one of the biggest covert CIA operations in the history of the US, one that spawned the birth of the Medellin cartel and eventually almost brought down the Reagan White House through the Iran Contra scandal.

Through combining paintball - like territory battles with covert squid swimming abilities, we think Splatoon has done it.

In the film, T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) discovers that his father T'Chaka (performed through John Kani, in addition to his son Atandwa Kani in flashbacks) killed his personal brother, Killmonger's father, because of a covert plan that risked exposing Wakanda's hidden group to the outdoor international.

Apparently, it was through his funding of a covert CIA operation in response to the Russian invasion of Afghanistan that the mujahedeen managed to defend themselves successfully while simultaneously bankrupting the U.S.S.R..

Her job is to lead her secret agent — in this case the suave Bradley Fine (Jude Law)-- through the typical minefields of covert activities and assassins.

Stone sends his Snowden through the Army Reserve's basic training, running through forests illuminated by shafts of sunlight, and eventually into the quiet corridors of covert power, but cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle (a genius on more video - centric films like Dogville), gives the visuals a flat, generic feel — a missed opportunity given the material.

The wonders of Hellboy II as experienced through our avatars Hellboy (Ron Perlman), Liz (Selma Blair), and Abe (Doug Jones, this time vocalizing the character as well)-- team members for a covert government agency that deals with supernatural intrusions — are the way the world is, and it's fascinatingly left for the normals in the audience to crane for a better look.

Director Doug Liman (still devoted to handheld - cam action even for kitchen convo and cocktail parties) and writers Jez and John - Henry Butterworth dramatize the internecine D.C. scandal mostly through the personal trials endured by covert C.I.A. agent Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts) and her husband, retired diplomat Joe Wilson (Sean Penn!

Teaching Tips No One Told You «Strangely absent from any official curriculum and in certain cases considered a form of contraband offered only through secret conversations and in code, it is now time to reveal the discrete, covert formulas, practices, and dictums we long - time teachers know to be true.»

Two college girls driving through Mexico on spring break discover a land of terror when they encounter serial killers, armed robbers, and an eccentric millionaire with covert ties to foreign relations.

My husband and I stumbled upon a house in Georgia, It was supposedly foreclosed, but when we made the offer at the beginning of march, we found out CW never actually followed through foreclosure with the previous owner, so after coverting to short sale, the previous owner accepted our offer, but we all know with CW that doesn't mean JACK.

The addition of covert knife attacks alone makes it relatively easy to pass through whole stages without troubling any alarms.»

Another good thing about the spectres is that they can sense human bodies through walls, so you can plan a stealth approach on another player in order to do a bit of covert body snatching.

Fighting upward through the derelict lower levels of 2080 Tokyo into the beautiful upper city, players control an international Special Forces squad, specializing in covert ops, which sets out to battle to the heart of the crisis.

The introduction of this gameplay mechanic delivers enhanced player movement and verticality through boost jumps and grappling, covert cloaking abilities, and biomechanics that provide unparalleled strength, awareness, endurance, and speed.

Through this restaging, Mauri invites us to consider the powers that governed the fate of so many, and to inspect and scrutinize this covert and sinister event, exposing the perpetrators of Fascism.

Work from 1861 to 1967 by artists with diverse sexualities and gender identities will be showcased, and will range from covert images of same - sex desire such as Simeon Solomon's Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene 1864 through to the open appreciation of queer culture in David Hockney's Going to be a Queen for Tonight 1960.

Never mind that Wegman's report was very carefully and deliberately contrived to avoid academic standards of peer review; never mind the obvious overt and covert political influence that was brought to bear on its conclusions from inception through execution.

Its durable, thin - film solar panels covert sun into renewable energy through proprietary technology.

Through a combination of covert investigations and targeted advocacy, Global Witness has changed the way the world thinks about the extraction and trading of natural resources, and the devastating impact their unsustainable exploitation can have upon development, human rights and stability.

Oregon then modified its existing rules on misconduct (Rule 8.4) to specifically provide that «covert activity» is prohibited, being defined as «an effort to obtain information on unlawful activity through the use of misinterpretations or other subterfuge.»

«Any covert or overt attempt to misuse social media including Facebook to influence India's electoral process through undesirable means will neither be tolerated, nor be permitted.»

Any covert or overt attempt to misuse Social Media including Facebook to influence India's electoral process through undesirable means will neither be tolerated, nor be permitted: Shri @rsprasad

But any attempt, overt or covert, by social media, including Facebook, of trying to influence India's electoral process through undesirable means will neither be appreciated nor be tolerated,» he said.

But any attempt, covert or overt, by social media, including Facebook, of trying to influence India's electoral process through undesirable means will neither be appreciated nor be tolerated,» Prasad added.

From preschool through adolescence, peer relations for females entail a covert world of exclusion, gossip, and relational attacks (Bjà ¶ rkqvist et al., 1992; Crick, Bigbee, and Howes, 1996; Crick, Casas, and Mosher, 1997; Crick, Casas, and Ku, 1999) with significant increases during late childhood and early adolescence (Lagerspetz and Bjà ¶ rkqvist, 1994; Leschied, Cummings, Van Brunschot, Cunningham, and Saunders, 2001).

From preschool through adolescence, peer relations for females entail a covert world of exclusion, gossip, and relational attacks -LRB-