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The Islamic State’s barbaric advance has undermined an unavowed but strong tenet of Western policy in the Middle East.

Its best score in other polls has been 4 percent, but pollsters say it may have higher unavowed support.

If some of the other translations are less altered, the imitations and unavowed adaptations are much more so.

He sang it with real passion, and produced, exactly where he wished, a strange but unavowed sensation.

Salabert had time still to pay one of those unavowed visits which form an item in the social round of many a man whose virtues are more conspicuous, and whose vices less blatant than his.