He issued a thinly veiled threat to attack Col. Gadhafi's forces still on the offensive in the cities of Ajdabiya and Misrata.
Mutterings that thinly veiled protectionism would see most of the contracts go to domestic players may not be wholly justified.
Indeed the title is a thinly veiled homage to one of Koenig's heroes, Joe Strummer, several of the songs here directly influenced by both his life and the music of the Clash.
Such legends seem to be a thinly veiled version of pre-Christian fertility rites, rather than an allegory of Christ’s resurrection.
After several long, thinly veiled discussions on God, love, poetry, matted back hair and dank spider-holes, the King and Zabibah eventually fall deep in love.
In a thinly veiled reference to Barack Obama, he said he would fight to make sure "Americans are not deceived by an eloquent, but empty call for change."
It reportedly contained thinly veiled references to Malone and members of her family.
I replied with a thinly veiled warning.