1.   The speech was seen by many as a thinly disguised attack on the President.

2.   Much of the speech was a thinly disguised attack on the management of the company.

3.   They are a disguised attack on blacks, he said.

4.   With rubber-stamped American flags on every page, it included what some lawyers saw as thinly disguised attacks on those who had criticized Mogil, especially Liotti.

5.   In a thinly disguised attack on the white-led National Party, which governed the country under apartheid, Mandela strenuously denied his party was soft on crime.