Sentences with phrase «veiled threat at»

Well, Eartha certainly fulfills her part of the Sugar relationship with Santa, not only with her panther - like purr (she did play Catwoman on the»60s Batman TV show, after all) but also with her assertions of fidelity to her Daddy, maybe with a little bit of veiled threat at the end:

But the domestic scandal over tax avoidance — the outraged bluster of Margaret Hodge's mock trial of the Great Avoiders before the UK Public Accounts Committee; David Cameron's barely - veiled threat at Davos to corporations who needed to «wake up and smell the coffee»; UK Uncut's shop - floor protests — has done little damage to its targets.

Not exact matches

«We truly despise the carrot - and - stick approach,» Jia said in a veiled swipe at Trump's threats to cut aid or impose tariffs on Latin American nations that do not do more to further efforts to create more US jobs and combat drug trafficking.

There is also the matter of the thinly veiled (if at all) threat that regulators were looking closely at codifying their stances on cryptocurrency.

Everything turned on her line «no deal is better than a bad deal», coupled with the not - at - all - veiled threat that the UK will become a super low tax tiger economy if we don't get what we want.

«I'm sick and tired of the anonymous phone calls, the push - polling, the half - truths and the thinly - veiled threats directed at my supporters,» Liedka said in a press release.

Liedka said he had been hoping to run a positive campaign but feels the need to respond to «anonymous phone calls, the push - polling, the half - truths and the thinly - veiled threats directed at my supporters,» adding: «I'm nobody's punching bag.»

Other conference observers in contact with people in that session disputed the story's characterizations of the discussion as a verbal brawl or containing veiled threats, noting that Kerry's statements — separate from the characterizations — were consistent with his message since he arrived at the talks.

Thus for example, in Germany, in 2015, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that a ban on teachers wearing Islamic veils at schools was not compatible with religious freedom and that veils did not pose a threat to the school's learning environment.

You might wish to read CREA's dispatch that covers this topic as brought up by them to the CB and note the CB's muted silence (undoubtedly because of dealing with one issue at a time) and even the veiled threat contained therein.