According to Haaretz, Gould issued a thinly veiled threat to Okunis related to the bill.
Countless brothels operate across China, often thinly veiled as karaoke bars, saunas, massage parlors and hair salons.
All of the thinly veiled suggestions about Anshan doing the express bidding of Beijing are therefore irrelevant.
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This seems like a thinly veiled attempt to urge Chinese consumers to buy only Chinese made goods.
Every day sees fresh commentaries heaping praise on their hero and oozing thinly veiled contempt for Mr Wen.
Critics, mostly labor unions, have always attacked such proposals as a thinly veiled effort to eliminate employer-provided coverage.
While General Bashir acknowledges it won't be easy to fix, he has thinly veiled disdain for Iraq's politicians.
They paint a similar picture of Libyan threats, often not very thinly veiled, to secure the Libyan's freedom.
Under pressure to get the diplomats released, the Iranian government has issued thinly veiled threats of military action.
He also took a thinly veiled shot at the presumptive Democratic nominee, Sen.
The ones that do are usually thinly veiled prototypes of cars that are already slated to come to market.
The balance comes from sources like corporate donations, and thinly veiled advertisements known in the "biz" as underwriting announcements.
Nothing is more off-putting than thinly veiled grabs at money, fame, or power.
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The National Popular Vote bill is a thinly veiled effort to void Article II of the Constitution and its elector system.
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Herri Batasuna itself has issued a thinly veiled threat to increase violence.
He ended by lamenting the increasing patronage, corruption and unprincipled politicking within the party a thinly veiled swipe at his rival and called for moral regeneration.
The term "foreigners" was widely interpreted as a thinly veiled reference to the chairman of Premier League side Mathare United, Bob Munro, who is a Canadian national.
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It recommends that IPCC chairs serve no more than one six-year term, a thinly veiled dig at the current chair, Rajendra Pachauri, now on his second term.
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He also takes a thinly veiled shot at NBPA Executive Director Billy Hunter, wondering if his main interest lies in protecting his own turf above all else.
At the heart of the probe is whether issue advocacy ads run by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in battleground states were actually thinly veiled Clinton-Gore re-election ads.
Sometimes courtliness is called for, other times thinly veiled threats.
Still, Booker T. and crew weren't known for putting together great albums: The legacy rests mostly on "Green Onions" and the thinly veiled rewrites that followed on subsequent releases.
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, cautioned civilian authorities against pursuing revenge, in what was widely interpreted as a thinly veiled reference to Mr. Musharraf's treatment since he returned to Pakistan in March.
He also said the government should "deal with another deadly weapon being stockpiled near us and threatening our cities and civilians, " a thinly veiled reference to weapons caches in Syria.
The AFL-CIO, one of the Democrats' most powerful patrons, has joined business groups to fight a provision barring unions and corporations from running "issue" ads--thinly veiled plugs for candidates--just before elections.
The bewildering lack of uniformity is a product of what industry pundits have come to call "vanity sizing"--a thinly veiled attempt by retailers to make weight-conscious customers feel better about their figures.
But, psychologists say, grossly overtipping can also be a sign of a large ego ("look at this money I'm throwing around") or a thinly veiled attempt by an insecure person to buy approval.
Analysts say any merger would have to be one of equals, in reality as well as on paper unlike Dresdner's disastrous fling with Deutsche, which amounted to a thinly veiled takeover by the bigger rival.
"Instead of addressing the underlying causes for the unfortunate assaults by twisted minds on innocent victims, this motion is a thinly veiled attempt to destroy the constitutional rights of a legal entity, " he said.
Publicly funded news organizations may want to prove their independence by being highly critical of government, but thinly veiled antagonism based on poor reporting or political prejudice has, for example, seriously damaged the BBC's credibility.
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