seal of secrecy
Example Sentences
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Lord Widgery, Lord Chief Justice of England, ruled that the government cannot put a seal of secrecy on its internal business without convincing the court that silence is "clearly necessary in the public interest."
From Time Magazine Archive
If some good gentleman can only get the seal of secrecy removed I can show what was said and done.
From Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? by John B. Remsburg
I have known it these two years, under the seal of secrecy.
From Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau
Later, in a fight between wary capitalists where vigilance had to be met with vigilance, the seal of secrecy had been imperative.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford
To him all should be revealed under the seal of secrecy, and he should advise them what was to be done.
From Weird Tales, Vol. II. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
