The approach to defining subsidiarity has illustrated either the frivolity or the stealthy ambitions of the federalists.
The process has been gradual, stealthy, haphazard, almost inadvertent, but unfortunately both insidious and menacing in its cumulative effect.
No consideration has been given to the stealthy and surreptitious decontrol which is going on day by day.
He accused us of a stealthy, piecemeal attack upon the social services.
I would say that they have been not so much stealthy as invisible.
The costs may therefore come under a different, more stealthy heading.
We know the effect that stealthy drinking of that sort has on the moral of the people.
It is an extremely novel situation, and it has stolen upon us in so stealthy a fashion that we have scarcely recognised its arrival.