All evidence to Select Committees is given under the cloak of parliamentary privilege.

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Other regulations are developed by power hungry bureaucrats inured to marketplace realities, all while resting under the cloak of civil service tenure.

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All of a sudden they were hanging out their dirty laundry and sharing rumors and suppositions, sometimes wildly inaccurate, sometimes under the cloak of anonymity.

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It is difficult to pinpoint how many people subscribe to white supremacist views, because the Internet allows people to follow the movement under the cloak of anonymity.

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Apparently that actually happened, sometimes under the cloak of darkness, resulting in pressure on the home-course super to goose up speeds by whatever means necessary, even if that meant scalping the greens or taking other measures likely to cause long-term damage.

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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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Others have disguised their protectionist instincts under a cloak of concern about labour and the environment.

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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.

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