Others have disguised their protectionist instincts under a cloak of concern about labour and the environment.
Surely the best way to honour the RUC, he said, was not to provide a cloak of uncertainty around the entire organisation.
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The law requires a cloak of secrecy until the deal is signed.
So, compared with a regular vessel and a cloak of the same size, the latter needs to push a much smaller volume of water.
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Although the global number of Google searches for Bachchan puts him on the same scale as Sean Connery, he retains a cloak of anonymity in the West.
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The fiscal cliff drama used a supposed crisis of macroeconomic austerity to cloak a real crisis of elite decadence.
Heavy-lidded eyes cast down, he concentrates intently on a book, with the deep, swirling folds of his enveloping red cloak serving as a visible metaphor for the cocoon of his ecstatic absorption.
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Or when, a little later, Kinmonth insisted on swathing himself top-to-toe in a black cloak (he thinks under the influence of a Bergman film).
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Now, Prof Smith and his Duke colleague Nathan Landy have taken another tack, reworking how the edges of a microwave cloak line up, ensuring that the light passes around the cloak completely with no reflections.
The eventual outcome, Prof Pendry says, "is going to be very far from what most people would think of as a cloak: something thin and flexible, which you can wrap around yourself and change its shape".
Several breakthroughs sent shock waves through the field of renewable energy this week as Inhabitat reported on a new type of "invisibility cloak" that could supercharge solar cells and researchers at MIT harnessed viruses to improve the efficiency of dye-solar cells by a full third.
Beyond this is a display of complex Native American bead and basket work and a glorious feather cloak worked to mimic fur.
"The cloak we demonstrated in 2006 as a kind of microwave device would be very poor, but this one gets us to something that could be potentially useful, " Prof Smith said.
In fact, he only agreed to an interview with CNN after a number of conversations that involved middle men, telephone calls with ever changing numbers and, finally, a cloak and dagger meeting complete with a secret phrase and response.
If you want to join up with a core group of superstar women to earn your Super Woman cloak, come on out to Santa Barbara to hear author Gloria Feldt keynote our one-day She Negotiates Leadership Retreat on June 30.
The Predators have the most high-tech weaponry (including a personal cloak, shoulder cannon, and special medkit) but are constantly running out of power and must constantly replenish their energy.
For the cloak-and-dagger set, the Spies of Washington Tour gives travelers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the city's history of international espionage.
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Fresh on the heels of the microwave invisibility project at the University of Texas at Austin, French researchers have found a way to make a cloak that can hide a subject from thermal imaging devices.
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He awaited the crowd's approval seated on a carved wooden throne, with his eyes cast down, and with his mother's cloak of kiwi feathers draped around his shoulders.
What our cloak accomplishes is that it reduces the mass of fluid that has to be displaced to a bare minimum .
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Earlier this year, the American government asked the International Maritime Organisation, a London-based agency that is part of the United Nations, to help it penetrate the cloak of secrecy provided by flags of convenience.
Judge Jose Luis Jaimes sentenced the teenager, known as "El Ponchis" ("The Cloak") to three years in a correctional facility -- the maximum sentence allowed under Mexican law because of his age.
At home, in the long hooded cloak she wears as a Druid priest, Cat stands at a small altar on which is the sculpted form of a woman, green leaves and an apple.
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