Instead of promoting truth in sentencing, guidelines insure that covert practices remain hidden.

This year, The Associated Press defined it as "the covert practice of expelling suspects to countries known to use torture to extract information."

However, it was Smith's covert practice of polygamy that caused Law to completely separate himself.

So, they turned to other sources: the handful of cookbooks still around from that era, bookkeeping ledgers used in patrician households of the day, travelers' journals and poems written to raise awareness of covert Jewish practices.

Originally hired as a gardener there in about 1940, he acquired his formidable surgical skills through years of silent observation and covert practice at the university's medical school.

A lot of famous pieces of propaganda were created during World War II, but this covert practice of persuasion stretches as far back as ancient Rome.