"secret" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Both Mr. Reagan and Mr. Bush had characterized the arms shipments as a secret diplomatic overture to moderates in Iran's Government.
- None of those Governments were aware of the concerns' secret overtures to Iraq, the official said.
- 'Desperation of a Superpower' Hojatolislam Rafsanjani, who last November revealed details of secret American overtures toward Iran, including arms sales, did not elaborate.
- In 1825 Tsar Alexander I entrusted Dorothea with a secret overture to the British government.
- When the general Hou Jing rebelled in fall 548, he, knowing Xiao Zhengde's disaffection, made secret overtures to Xiao Zhengde, promising to make him emperor.
- Li Maozhen began making secret overtures to Zhu, offering to kill the eunuchs and surrender the emperor to him while blaming Han for seizing the emperor.
- When the Nixon Administration began making secret overtures for peace in 1968, he said, he and other skeptics allowed time to pass before joining actively in the antiwar movement.
- He describes it as being initiated by the Burgundian king's brother, Godegisel, who made secret overtures to Clovis, persuaded him to invade Burgundy, and then joined him on the battlefield.
- The latter, knowing Napoleon's desire for peace at the close of 1809, undertook to make secret overtures to the British cabinet of Spencer Perceval.
- He'd hinted to Julia that he had made a secret overture to the San Francisco reform group.
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