Washington, understandably, is fearful that any public disclosure of that information would expose the specific intelligence sources and methods used to obtain it.

Many charges of espionage have not even been filed because intelligence agencies have not wanted to expose their sources and methods.

If the master page exposes public properties or methods (e.g. for setting copyright notices) the content page can use these as well.

"Historically," he said "agencies have been reluctant to share intelligence data for fear of exposing their sources and methods."

It has involved battles between those determined to expose methods and magicians, who have sometimes resorted to legal action to try to preserve secrecy.

Governments have either been reluctant to share or potentially expose intelligence-gathering methods.

The aim was to expose poor experimental methods and the credulity thought to be common in parapsychology.

Control patterns also expose methods that enable clients to get further information about the element and to provide input.

The Composite object then exposes properties and methods for child objects manipulation as if it were a simple object.

They expose properties, methods, and events to a containing Application.