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sub rosa

‘under the rose’; confidential.

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The Latin phrase sub rosa refers to something done, or happening, in secret.

CREDITOR EQUALITY, SECURED TRANSACTIONS, AND SYSTEMIC RISK: A COMPLEX TRILEMMA

The tape has received considerable attention, mostly sub rosa, within Iran.

Montazeri still shakes up regime seven years after his death

Sub Rosa, Stay Fresh and Thunder Disco Club are the guys on the decks.

MASH HITS

As predicted on these pages more than a month ago, Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster hired political operative Nick Melson as his confidential City Hall secretary, a gambit that gives the mayor the luxury of having city taxpayers subsidize the cost of his sub rosa campaign manager.

Dyster's new secretary Melson posts homophobic, sexist rants on twitter

We've now heard from not just one but three plugged-in informants, one of them Platinum Triangle real estate mover and shaker Peter Propertyseller, that Italian-born fashion and retail mogul Mossimo Giannulli and veteran television actress Lori Loughlin are widely rumored in certain high-end real estate circles to have made a sub rosa, off-market deal to sell their freshly overhauled mansion just south of Sunset Boulevard in the Flats of Beverly Hills to an unknown buyer for somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 million.

Lori Loughlin secretly sells BevHills Manse

Howard Eisemann, president and CEO of Able Legal Investigations, stated that the new location in the Los Angeles area allows greater flexability in servicing clients needs and permits expansion of surveillance and sub rosa investigations.

Able Legal Investigations Announces New Beverly Hills Office Location

But the basic problem is that for too long, the history of the postcolonial subcontinent has been hidden behind a veil of secrecy, shrouded by sealed records and sub rosa operations.

Bhutto and the Breakup of Pakistan

While before 1885, Basel (Switzerland) missionaries in Ghana and Ghanaian Christians shared a spiritual interpretation of the world, with the advent of biomedicine, the missionaries began to shun traditional African, spirit-based healing practices, which were then practiced sub rosa. Disruptions in the early twentieth century were frequently seen as due to witchcraft, and, thus, traditional healing persisted.

Enchanted Calvinism; labor migration, afflicting spirits, and Christian therapy in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana

How would you compare the experience of putting out this book to your last, given that Sub Rosa is fiction and this is memoir?

How poetry can save a life

Cervantes is daring and fair; he "does not shy away from any facet of his era's legal discourse, but rather takes it head-on, albeit frequently sub rosa, and subversively" (147).

Byrne, Susan. Law and History in Cervantes' Don Quixote

"There was no box for them to fit into." She considers herself lucky to have trained with "very gracious doctors and chiropractors" who incorporated energy-based techniques such as traditional Chinese medicine and tools like the Voll meter for measuring energy frequencies into their practices, somewhat sub rosa.

Reclaiming energy medicine: Intuition Medicine pioneer Francesca McCartney has grown from a nearly silent little girl into an outspoken proponent of a once-clandestine healing technology, making the science of Energy a respectable twenty first-century health care choice

Jesse Harris, who will be at Sam Bond's on Saturday opening for singer-songwriter Jesca Hoop, has released his 11th solo album, "Sub Rosa."