1.   But there were only a few heavily veiled allusions to his difficulties during the debate, all from the Democrats.

2.   There was lots of talk about the scourge of drugs, but no thinly veiled allusions to race hostility.

3.   When you talk about death with a person getting ready to die there is no time for veiled allusions.

4.   In his speech, French President Francois Mitterrand spoke out Tuesday against domination by large powers, in a veiled allusion to Russian handling of Chechnya.