Yet admissions officers readily admit to using some kind of secretive and apparently idiosyncratic method of taking different kinds of backgrounds into consideration when using them.

The secretive methods of jewel owners had made it almost impossible for The Shadow to learn where crime was due to strike.

New 589 nm yellow laser pointers have been introduced using a more robust and secretive method of harmonic generation from a DPSS laser system.

The term refers to the obtaining of money (the "gold") through a dark, secretive, and corrupt method (the "black").

But what this suggestion most brought to mind was the similarly secretive, invisible methods used in this country for the state-sanctioned killing of humans.

When his secretive methods to do so were exposed and publicized, local revolutionary committees denounced him as an "enemy to the community".

Knowing the secretive methods of his mysterious employer, Harry was reluctant to surprise The Shadow at work.

The country's military rulers have used secretive methods ever since independence in 1962, and the war has thus served to preserve the atmosphere in which they thrive.

George Bush's secretive and declarative method will soon seem archaic - like the silent picture acting style in the age of sound.

The Salt Lake City bribery scandal erupted late in 1998 and exposed the secretive, corrupt methods that cities employed to win the Olympic Games.