The usually secretive agency is best known for its major role in creating the Internet. |
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Depending upon its position in the horoscope, Mercury is lies or truth, open or secretive, provocative or non-confrontational. |
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Another winter wonder at the reserve is the normally shy, secretive water rail. |
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But the courts are ready, willing and able to deal with highly secretive and sensitive evidence. |
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Although they yard together in spring, during most of the year, moose are solitary secretive animals and very wary of mankind. |
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Still, there seems to be a kind of secretive admiration of the Amazons by the male myth makers. |
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It was the more secretive networks of intelligence and escape which forged the first working links with the British or the Free French in London. |
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Because of their cryptic coloration and secretive habits, ground antbirds are more often heard than seen. |
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The Spanish Ambassador, a reclusive and secretive man, whom I suspect is light-minded beneath a grave exterior, is very embarrassed by his role. |
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Fairly secretive visitors among the larger rorquals are the fin whale and its slightly smaller cousin, the sei whale. |
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Rubber boas are secretive, slow-moving, docile snakes, usually found under logs and rocks in either moist or dry forest habitats. |
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It was a really secretive process and I wasn't even sure who I was applying to until they asked me to come in for an interview! |
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Now Anya's a little secretive about her love life, and the rest of us spend a lot of time wondering about what's going on. |
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J K Rowling has been particularly secretive about the plot, but she has released a couple of short extracts as a teaser. |
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She was very secretive in the sense that she didn't want her name bandied around the village. |
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Shepardson said that she thinks that people believe the World Bank is a secretive organization. |
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Retailers are notoriously secretive about profit margins and the performance of their individual stores. |
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But for this most secretive and networked of groups things have seldom been better. |
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All contact is 100 percent confidential but it's not a secretive organisation. |
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They are secretive and withhold information not only from the rest of the world, but even from their own organizations. |
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Just why is the state health department being so secretive about their program? |
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Given the secretive nature of the order, what exactly was found remains a mystery. |
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Now that's led to people saying we're secretive and that we're close mouthed. |
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And he proceeds to explain why everything surrounding Virgin's finances should be so secretive. |
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Williamson was notoriously secretive about his creation and no contemporary plan of the whole network survives. |
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There is no public scrutiny of what is a very secretive and authoritarian regime. |
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He became highly secretive and delved further and further into the criminal world. |
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He was a bit secretive about his feelings, so they didn't hear from him much. |
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It was the culmination of months of secretive work by a Garda team headed by Assistant Commissioner Joe Egan. |
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A highly secretive project has been underway since February 2000 to redefine the very concept of the action film. |
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What truly caught his attention was not her astonishingly contrasting beauty, but her secretive ways. |
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That mission was so secretive, the Chinese government wouldn't even confirm the astronaut's name until he was safely on his way into orbit. |
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Strikers said that they have never heard of such a fund before, and accused the company of cutting their pay in a secretive way. |
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Well we both know that it's not there for that, but I can't beat them up, so I get back at them a different and more secretive way. |
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But her secretive way of voicing herself backfires when Georgia and Virginia are fired for her subversiveness. |
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The Manhattan Project was and is still one of the most secretive projects ever created in United States history. |
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The secretive process will probably continue for another week or so when one or two candidates will likely emerge. |
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Staff at Camp Bondsteel rarely venture outside the compound and their activities are secretive. |
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The decision-making process was usually secretive, and judges were never held accountable for their judgments. |
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But I was thinking of what William Raleigh had said of my performing strange and secretive tasks for him, should he require them. |
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The final reason for the ineffectiveness of the wonder weapons comes from their secretive development and combat employment. |
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The story was originally dealt with in a secretive way that led to speculation that the injury could be very serious. |
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The way of rewarding his select group of fund managers in a secretive way has the hallmarks of a Macquarie Bank approach. |
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He flashed her a secretive smile before covering it up with a more somber expression. |
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She nodded and a mysterious, secretive expression came into her eyes, but disappeared as soon as it appeared. |
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Blaise smiled her secretive smile, the corners of her mouth twitching in hidden mirth, and she switched her grip on the hilt of her sword. |
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The girls came along with me, looking pleased with themselves, very secretive. |
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The best of these shows a beautiful woman with a mysterious, secretive expression. |
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With that she disappeared into the bathroom with a secretive smile upon her lips. |
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Members of the secretive Bullingdon Club trashed a country pub at the end of Michaelmas term, smashing 17 bottles of wine and breaking a window. |
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A secretive layer of minted yogurt and a cache of garnet sweet potatoes made the dish even more of a global high-wire act. |
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In Scott's vivid and often hilarious account, Brown emerges as a big spender and a secretive control freak. |
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However, the classic symptoms of drug mis-use are having unusually late hours, moodiness and secretive behaviour. |
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Sam was attempting to squeeze out any morsels of information that he could find helpful later on, and wasn't been secretive about it. |
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What they do with our data is important but they're unaccountable and secretive. |
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Extraversion results were moderately low which suggests you are reclusive, quiet, unassertive, and secretive. |
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Our common historical portrait of him consists mostly of negative assertions that he was irascible, uncivil, and secretive. |
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This habitat should also contain densely vegetated corridors to allow these secretive birds to move under cover. |
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The school cares and has anti-bullying policies, but bullying is often secretive and underhand. |
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As belief in magick grew great and strong, its followers became more secretive and strict about the lore and beliefs of these mystical ways. |
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It wasn't that he was sneaky or even secretive, it was just that he didn't open up much. |
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But there is always a sense of foreboding on such occasions because of the secretive, mafia-like management by a cabal of political operators. |
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The most secretive clients book into one of the 34 cabanas at the quieter southern end, with their own pool and beach. |
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And vote counters should be nonpartisan public servants, not secretive corporations or party hacks. |
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I've been dating Sam for months now, but just recently he's become very secretive and cagey around me. |
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The dueling lawsuits offer a rare window into the secretive inner workings of a hedge fund. |
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That makes it easy for a small and secretive terrorist cell to go undetected. |
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A secretive millionaire Rangers fan has bought a castle, once used as a hideout by Rob Roy MacGregor, to be closer to his beloved Ibrox Park. |
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But in addition to the physical side of his character, you also see the secretive, chameleon-like side. |
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These natives must learn to deal honestly with their emotions and be a little less secretive with their feelings of hostility or hurt. |
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My Thai wife has started being very secretive about the housekeeping money. |
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Financial institutions are notoriously secretive about their credit scoring systems. |
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Indeed, some argue that the involvement of a private firm has brought much-needed transparency to a secretive, clubby world. |
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Otters are fabled as Britain's most secretive creatures and were believed to live only in a few small pockets in Britain's remotest parts. |
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The secretive corncrake prefers to nest in hay meadows and other grasslands, especially those with dense vegetation. |
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It's not one of those landscapes that are arch and secretive, it isn't gentle or flirtatious. |
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Friends characterized him as a secretive, solitary type who had spent a previous vacation alone in the Corsican mountains. |
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I like the ships of the Navy, nervous darting destroyers, sleek cruisers, majestic battle ships, steady solid carriers and secretive submarines. |
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The military's top cyberwarriors gathered last year inside a secretive compound at Fort Meade for a classified war game exercise. |
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Eating disorders are rampant in today's culture, so you don't want to contribute toward an addictive cycle of secretive bingeing and purging. |
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However some see his group, founded in Madrid in 1928, as secretive and elitist. |
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I imagine it is very embarrassing for them to be found out for being so secretive. |
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Not the friendliest neighbor in the rain forest, the goshawk is one of the most secretive of birds when it comes to nesting. |
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Whenever a researcher enters into a secretive situation such as commercial-in-confidence research or military research, they effectively disappear from view. |
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However, would it possible to assume that the entire science of ufology is nothing but a mere secretive component of the real story of flying objects? |
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Are we, the North Yorkshire council tax payers, paying heavily for the security of secretive, unaccountable American bases while neglecting our own. |
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In fact, it is an open secret that many African governments are dominated by small elite groups that run their countries in a secretive and authoritarian manner. |
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This is the story of the secretive company at the forefront of cybersecurity. |
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He was a very secretive sort of individual, a very recluse sort of a person, and didn't have much to do with many of the people of this congregation. |
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The military has been trying to stop current and former special operators from discussing their secretive profession. |
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They dislike cell phones and they are, for various practical reasons, somewhat secretive. |
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The pudu is very secretive and little is known about it in the wild. |
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The mayor responded defiantly with a kind of military pageant that was truly bizarre for such a secretive organization. |
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The Ancient ones slowly became bored of our land and slowly faded away, becoming more inward and secretive, within years they were all but legend. |
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The selection of replacement bishops is a highly secretive process. |
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The Revenue Commissioners are poised to sign deals with some of the world's most secretive tax havens in a bid to prevent tax dodgers hiding their money abroad. |
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The book depicts Bezos and Amazon as hard-charging, insatiable, and excessively secretive. |
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The agent is part of a secretive multi-agency task force that operates in Farmington. |
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Inside a feeder school for The Family, a secretive global network of evangelical power players. |
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Most secretive of ironists, had this been your deepest irony? |
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There was nothing underhanded or secretive about this at all. |
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She smiled her most secretive and engaging smile and said nothing. |
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Today the most high-profile of the old-time secretive sects is Scientology. |
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The one-eyed leader of the Quetta Shura never talks to the press, never meets with non-Muslims and is remarkably secretive. |
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These were a taciturn lot, slow-thinking, cautious and secretive. |
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He stood there with a rather secretive smile playing on his lips. |
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Well, our puggish pal is flying in to lend a hand to his colourful environmental activist friends for a wacky protest against a big secretive conference. |
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Like alcoholics, gambling addicts are often secretive, irritable, and unable to cut back. |
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She gave him a quick secretive smile before she left his room. |
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Anne is suddenly too busy to be around her, and highly secretive. |
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All sorts of rumors had been circulating over the weeks prior, and me being the secretive type, derived a perverse pleasure in being privy to the real story. |
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He gave her one of his secretive little smiles and chuckled. |
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She is secretive about her past and we do not pressure her to reveal it. |
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Perhaps in his secretive way he was telling Ben his vacation was due. |
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He'd become somewhat of a secretive guy during the past few months. |
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They are superstitious, violent, passionate, mercurial, and secretive, with a greater belief in dragons than in any saint. |
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The more secretive you get with your parents, the worst things will become. |
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She peeked out her door, unsure of why she was being so secretive. |
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Composed mainly of Germans and some Englishmen, the club was fanatically secretive about its activities, demanding that members abided by strict rules. |
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He is intent on making people look good but not necessarily beautiful in his work and achieves this by capturing secretive, edgy or cagey subjects. |
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This week's secretive populace have embraced the concept that silence is golden, so liberating information could be about as easy as extracting Excalibur from the rock. |
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Why are you so secretive about your personal life, even down to what area code you live in? |
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The Long Range Strike Bomber may be the most secretive Pentagon aviation program in decades. |
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Jane Neubauer was just out of basic training when a secretive military unit recruited her for an undercover mission. |
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Was he slipping into the shadows and assuming the more secretive posture of spymasters from a bygone era? |
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The secretive machinery set up to serve warlike purposes still patterns much of our research and innovation processes today, even purely civilian work. |
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Unlike his father, who was secretive and conservative, the young Henry appeared the epitome of chivalry and sociability. |
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He was a secretive and mischievous man who enjoyed stories irrespective of their truth. |
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Much of this activity is secretive but investigations have revealed that tens of thousands of hares could be being culled every year. |
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The identity of the secretive street artist has been outed by a Sunday newspaper and, shock horror, he's middle class. |
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A just-released book on authentic North Korean food reportedly discloses some of the mysterious dishes of the secretive nation. |
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Half of the area's diminutive and secretive reed bed-dwelling water rails also call this place home. |
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Otters and the rare and secretive water shrew have already been seen there, so our hopes are high for the future. |
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Try not to be too secretive with a Sagittarian who can help and not hinder the progress you want to make. |
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The forest is also home to the anoa, a rare and secretive dwarf buffalo, and the Buton macaque, a tail-less monkey. |
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The secretive Opus Dei sect is launching a recruitment drive to set up its first network in Wales. |
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There continued to be some central leadership, most notably in the secretive Feoffees for Impropriations. |
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Highly secretive, spitting cobras can live near houses for years without being seen. |
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When his relationship with Anja, an older woman, unpredictably veers on a secretive path, he loses all stability. |
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The reporter drew heavily on interviews with former members of the secretive group. |
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Our vaults contain amazing specimens, from tuataras, survivors of an ancient lineage, to very rare secretive, legless amphibians. |
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Attacked Critics of Opus Dei claim it is a secretive and elitist organisation and question whether politicians should be members. |
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In the Gorky household, the young Berberova got to explore Moura's mercurial and secretive nature. |
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But after more than two decades in the FBI's secretive national-security division, she knows her way around terrorism. |
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For many fishing villages, loot and contraband provided by pirates supported a strong and secretive underground economy in Cornwall. |
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Paradoxically, the Oxford Movement was also criticised for being both secretive and collusive. |
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It has been the subject of dispute whether some individuals were members of paramilitary organisations due to their secretive nature. |
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Before 1771, the British Parliament had long been a highly secretive body. |
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Turns out he's being ''run'' by the British police, charged with finding out as much as he can about a secretive sect of schmoozers and air-kissers called. |
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When he looks at her she wears a secretive smile, the knowledge of their act between them like a thauma'd thing, laced with the unguilt of defiant exploration. |
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Unlike Weasleycest, which has spread across the fandom like kudzu, Malfoycest has always been more difficult to find, and its writers a bit more secretive. |
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The truth will likely never be known as Nasser was an intensely secretive man, who managed to hide his true opinions on most issues from both contemporaries and historians. |
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The Eurasian Stone-curlew is a secretive and cryptic species with nocturnal habits, which largely relies on acoustic communication during the entire annual cycle. |
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Analysts in Ukraine responded that the secretive way Poroshenko set up these accounts was certain to undermine trust in him, his party and Ukraine itself. |
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Because of his asocial and secretive behaviour, Cavendish often avoided publishing his work, and much of his findings were not even told to his fellow scientists. |
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The cables further said that some of BP's ACG partners complained that the company was so secretive that it was withholding information even from them. |
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Bo's ousting this spring and the investigation into his family are the messiest political scandal the normally secretive Chinese leadership has faced in decades. |
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The events are private and secretive, there are no records available for the agenda or talks given at the conferences, and no uninvited journalists are permitted access. |
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Smaller than the wambengers, the antechinuses are secretive and are seldom seen by people unless they are caught and brought into houses by domestic cats. |
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Many are shy and secretive birds, making them difficult to observe. |
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Little more is known, as Engels destroyed over 1,500 letters between himself and Marx after the latter's death so as to conceal the details of their secretive lifestyle. |
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The Familists were extremely secretive and wary of outsiders. |
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Although Walpole enjoyed the limelight, he was secretive about his many acts of generosity to younger writers, with both encouragement and financial help. |
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