If not for the covert efforts of Moonstar, the mission would have been a success, but instead the team teleports away.

No matter that covert efforts to do just that have failed miserably.

Despite his covert efforts to push humanity in the right direction, Seven drew the line at outright assassination.

The overseas companies also played a role in such crucial covert efforts as fuel smuggling, officials said.

Despite ongoing, covert efforts, Mayweather still believed they were not quite ready.

But it does not provide details and says, "the methods and the scope of the covert effort have been hard to discern."

Could he have, instead, detected an official covert effort by embassy personnel to infiltrate an outside criminal conspiracy?

"The existence of an unidentified party already engaged in covert efforts to change the existing political structure on Romulus."

Eventually, officials said, some of those organizations have been shut down once the covert efforts were completed.

Its covert effort to acquire the means to enrich uranium may date from that time.