I copied from the report of 1784 a note which was probably obtained surreptitiously from the War Office.

Richard C. Wald, senior vice president of ABC News, said the network had been widely criticized by some people who thought the tape had been surreptitiously obtained.

The prosecution contended that he charged some of his corporate clients for legal work that was never done, disguised the payments as fees for other lawyers and surreptitiously obtained more than $1 million for himself without paying taxes on it.

Dr. Baulieu said the fact that an American woman had surreptitiously obtained 12 RU486 pills, enough for four abortions, underscores the potential for a black market in the drug, endangering women who might use the drug without proper medical supervision.

The station chief "surreptitiously obtained and delivered a sensitive D.E.A. document, which he well knew was signed by a D.E.A. informant, to an official of the government" in Myanmar, the suit said.

Memories of a Bavarian Nobleman, which alleged that in 1930 Hindenburg had surreptitiously obtained illegal funding from Osthilfe, a Weimar Republic programme for developing the agrarian economy in eastern Germany.

The case of Prince Albert v Strange, discussed earlier, suggests that an action might lie in breach of confidence even if the information was obtained surreptitiously.

Information about the Mayfair legacy was obtained surreptitiously and probably illegally through people in the banks involved who were bribed into revealing it.

In 3.3, Iago reveals to the audience that, having surreptitiously obtained the handkerchief that Othello had originally given Desdemona as a lover's token, he will lose it in Cassio's lodging.

The project insures that companies make certain "dual-use" technologies aren't surreptitiously obtained and misapplied.