They would think we are some kind of secret cabal that rules the world behind closed doors, and nothing could be farther from the truth.
There is no secret cabal, just a bunch of post-docs who can spare a weekend to read your submission.
You publish scientific papers about psychohistory for decades, then suddenly go silent and set up a secret cabal to control it!
I was expecting you to say he had fled the Commonwealth, or there was some secret cabal devoted to helping him.
The narrator is a member of some secret cabal scattered throughout the House, a series of artificial environments where people live, never seeing the outdoors.
You and your friends had no choice but to act as a secret cabal.
The Committee was a Los Angeles-based secret criminal cabal of businessmen.
In my opinion there was a secret cabal outside of the army council that vetoed the offer.
The organization was a secret cabal that included bankers, lawyers, heads of powerful corporations and government ministers.
He's looking at me now, leaning across the table, whispering like this is some secret cabal.