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Disguise in sentence

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Citing unnamed “corporate executives in China and Western economists,” The New York Times alleged in June that “there is evidence that local and provincial officials are falsifying economic statistics to disguise the true depth of [China’s] troubles,” thereby inflating a variety of economic indicators by 1-2 percentage points.
Yet such projections could never entirely disguise a nagging anxiety.
But no amount of triumphant rhetoric can obscure the West’s betrayal of the Syrian people, nor disguise its lack of any actual strategy for resolving the Syria conflict.
An American initiative to bring peace to Syria might even be a blessing in disguise for Russian President Vladimir Putin, as it would enable him to escape a trap of his own making.
One day, it will no longer be possible to disguise unemployment through shorter working weeks, forced leaves of absence, and decreases in wages.
to disguise political agendas (“X is the right thing to do.”).
In this respect, the Asian financial crisis amounted to a blessing in disguise for South Korea.
My moderate optimism should not disguise my unhappiness at America's poor economic management.
But, in the longer term, a turn toward protectionism by the United States could well be a blessing in disguise for China.
And China’s high rates of government investment and subsidies to SOEs disguise inefficiency in the allocation of capital.
It must not be viewed as a chance for the planet to “breathe,” or an environmental blessing in disguise.
Nor is the use of abusive language just a matter of incivility – a common occurrence in democratic discourse, on all sides, despite informal rules (“my honorable friend”) to disguise it.
But these intended wake-up calls disguise fatalism as realism, and choices as facts.
Trump, by contrast, has no strategy, and wants to disguise America’s retreat from the region, currently demonstrated in Syria by the open betrayal of the Kurds, with militant rhetoric and massive arms exports to US partners and allies in the Gulf.
The result, I fear, will be heroic announcements heralding impressive numbers that disguise the irrelevance and timidity of the agreed policies.
Such a policy is, of course, fiscal policy in disguise, and the day any central bank starts doing it heavily is the day it loses any semblance of independence.
To disguise this kindness M. Hennebeau spoke of the embarrassment to a young man of setting up a household in one of those little villas reserved for the mine engineers, Madame Hennebeau had at once taken the part of a good aunt, treating her nephew with familiarity and watching over his comfort.
This young peasant's skin was so white, his eyes were so appealing, that the somewhat romantic mind of Madame de Renal conceived the idea at first that he might be a girl in disguise, come to ask some favour of the Mayor.
'His eye is ablaze with a sombre fire; he has the air of a Prince in disguise; the arrogance of his gaze has increased.'
It may have been thought expedient to conceal or to disguise a part of the truth, prudence required this as well as religion.
At that moment an angel came by in the disguise of a small boy (and I cannot think of any more effective disguise an angel could have assumed), with a can of beer in one hand, and in the other something at the end of a string, which he let down on to every flat stone he came across, and then pulled up again, this producing a peculiarly unattractive sound, suggestive of suffering.
Mr. Wharton had in vain endeavored to pierce the disguise of his guest's political feelings; but, while there was nothing forbidding in his countenance, there was nothing communicative; on the contrary it was strikingly reserved; and the master of the house arose, in profound ignorance of what, in those days, was the most material point in the character of his guest, to lead the way into another room, and to the supper table.
A twelvemonth had, however, passed without his seeing them, and the impatient Henry had adopted the disguise we have mentioned, and unfortunately arrived on the very evening that an unknown and rather suspicious guest was an inmate of the house, which seldom contained any other than its regular inhabitants.
"How should he?" cried Sarah, "when your sisters and father could not penetrate your disguise."
"Their pickets were as low as the White Plains when I passed through in disguise.
Henry Wharton had resumed his disguise with a reluctance amounting to disgust, but in obedience to the commands of his parent.
The captain was impatiently wishing Harper in any other place than the one foe occupied with such apparent composure, while Miss Peyton completed the disposal of her breakfast equipage, with the mild complacency of her nature, aided a little by an inward satisfaction at possessing so large a portion of the trader's lace; Sarah was busily occupied in arranging her purchases, and Frances was kindly assisting in the occupation, disregarding her own neglected bargains, when the stranger suddenly broke the silence by saying,-"If any apprehensions of me induce Captain Wharton to maintain his disguise, I wish him to be undeceived; had I motives for betraying him, they could not operate under present circumstances."
Some of the cast-off clothes of the captain, which had been removed with the goods from the city, were produced; and young Wharton, released from the uneasiness of his disguise, began at last to enjoy a visit which had been undertaken at so much personal risk to himself.
"Our bargain went no further than to procure my disguise, and to let me know when the coast was clear; and in the latter particular, you were mistaken, Mr. Birch."
At length his sisters, with trembling hands, replaced his original disguise, the instruments of which had been carefully kept at hand by Caesar, in expectation of some sudden emergency.
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