In later life, once I started working for the government, it became a convenient cover for me.

This arrangement had the added attraction that the second area of activity could continue to provide a convenient cover for the first.

Wiz looked around for a convenient cover in case he needed it.

But is their journey really little more than convenient cover for one long party under the sun?

It often was a shorthand gloss, a convenient cover, for significant connections we didn't yet understand.

Political affiliation often provided a convenient cover for settling old scores.

"We have reason to suspect that your so-called investigation of the sabotage incidents has been a very convenient cover for you."

He smiled again when asked about the convenient cover 50,000 foreign soldiers in Bosnia might provide.

"Journalism is a very convenient cover," a senior Israeli security official said.

All his talk of government reform, they say, was merely a convenient cover to mask oversized ambition.