"The industry is incredibly opaque and the users are opaque," Mr. Kaye said.
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The more opaque part of the job is, by design, the more opaque part of the job.
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Enamored Hi-Shine Nail Lacquer in Opaque Bright Tomato Red and Opaque Muted Hot Pink, $18 for both; marcjacobsbeauty.
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It's too opaque, and when companies are opaque, it's hard for me to say, 'Hey, go buy that stock.
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And creating a world that's more opaque instead of less opaque is worse than I thought we should do.
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The phrase "social justice," for example, means important things to plenty of people, but it's an opaque term and makes for opaque arguments.
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Having talked to people inside the White House, it's not just opaque to people on the outside, it's opaque to the people on the inside.
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That's a good way to be able to make some money, but unfortunately, I find it very opaque and I can't recommend any opaque stocks on this show.
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" Newtek Business Services: "I think that Newtek is a business development company that I don't really understand, meaning that it's opaque and I'm not going to recommend an opaque stock.
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"We almost certainly have imaged a lot of these vortices but for whatever reason they don't appear to be opaque, or not opaque enough that we can see them," Banfield said.
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Ghosn enforced an 'unjust and opaque' personnel policy Ghosn would shut down challenges to his authority by having people "transferred or dismissed under his unjust and opaque personnel policy," the committee alleges.
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Ultimate Opaque Control Top Tights ($38)Commando's raw-cut waistbands mean the Ultimate Opaque Control Top Tights ($38) are one of very few that don't give me a bizarre stomach ache while wearing.
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Online political ads, however, have historically been far more opaque.
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The company is notoriously opaque with its policies on suspensions.
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It made bullets heavy, paint opaque, and gasoline more potent.
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And these strange, opaque lyrics, maybe they were about drugs.
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CAVUTO: I like those offices where the glass goes opaque.
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Even without links and media, the text was disturbingly opaque.
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Licensing agreements are a particularly opaque area of Apple's business.
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But Grobo has a transparent door, whereas Leaf's is opaque.
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At a minimum, this process was wacky, convoluted, and opaque.
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The group has 348 opaque subsidiaries, including India's longest tunnel.
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In the public's defence, health plans are opaque and complicated.
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The result is an opaque market where investors lose out.
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But they are probably the most opaque and badly run.
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Pakistan's powerful military remains dominant and its secret services opaque.
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This is all opaque to you, the user, of course.
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EpiPen has become the latest flashpoint in this opaque system.
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If it was wrinkled, for example, it would be opaque.
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Cook until shrimp are opaque, about 2 minutes per side.
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Science is currently too opaque, research too difficult to share.
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For years, the workings of News Feed were rather opaque.
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But reputation assessment systems, especially opaque ones, can be biased.
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It is extraordinarily opaque, extraordinarily slow, extraordinarily bureaucratic, extraordinarily wasteful.
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The design, for example, is simplistic bordering on the opaque.
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The actual corporate structure of Trump's retail business remains opaque.
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I'm in full armor, and I keep my visor opaque.
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They're also opaque systems, which makes them susceptible to bias.
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Chinese business transactions have a reputation for being notoriously opaque.
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If anything, the process has become more opaque and uncertain.
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Opaque charges such as transaction costs can be small individually.
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Opaque and brooding outside, the building feels transparent, uplifting, inside.
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In Qatar, the United States faces a more opaque problem.
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At best, the governmental criteria for granting exclusions are opaque.
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These intricate and often opaque relationships also appeared in Syria.
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The Eighty are nicely opaque and keep my legs warm.
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Grill chicken, uncovered, until edges are opaque, about 2 minutes.
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Smaller clams may be opaque when they reach the table.
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The motivations of Kit and Diane are sometimes equally opaque.
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Glass, resin and acrylic options that are anything but opaque.
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I say "may not" because her intentions are somewhat opaque.
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This second layer is far more opaque than the first.
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The agencies have also been opaque about their deregulation teams.
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The system for earning money through livestreaming is intentionally opaque.
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She's not transparent, either; like most humans, she's effortlessly opaque.
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As literally everyone knows, the SaaS market is too opaque.
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Cryptocurrency is among the most inaccessible, opaque topics out there.
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Patina is a crystalline structure; it's not opaque like paint.
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Concerns over HNA's opaque structure are also in the spotlight.
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Like many aspects of Google, it is also notoriously opaque.
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These taxpayers must navigate a confusing and opaque appeals process.
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The conditions in which they are held remain very opaque.
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The result is a frustratingly opaque global system of production.
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Now, she finds herself in the opaque world of actuarial taint.
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Like many Trump tweets, the exact meaning is a bit opaque.
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That is an uncannier, more opaque thing, and infinitely more rare.
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Due to the opaque nature of the program, misperceptions inevitably rise.
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It's a pretty opaque and byzantine affair in the first place.
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Even a mortgage-backed security might be less opaque than this.
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"It's such an opaque and pretty byzantine process," Ms. Binder said.
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But some importers have complained that the review process is opaque.
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China gives vast and opaque subsidies to its state-owned firms.
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"It's grown up into a byzantine and opaque system," she says.
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"It's still very opaque," William Nee, Amnesty's China researcher, told CNN.
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These decisions are particularly opaque and controversial and have generated controversy.
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Before claiming victory, Temer must first untangle Eletrobras' opaque corporate structure.
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She also wore ivory opaque tights and beige soft leather shoes.
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The flywheel spins an optical disc with an offset opaque coating.
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The shimmery opaque fabric hugged my curves and I looked…good.
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A substantial magic trick in the draconian, opaque arena of security.
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It's also troubling, she feels, that the process is so opaque.
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The way the algorithm works is famously opaque, and always changing.
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It also accuses Facebook of having an intentionally "opaque management structure".
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Their rules tend to be opaque and their enforcement is capricious.
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The mechanics of startup finance are not that confusing or opaque.
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Towards the East-West, the Pavilion is completely opaque and material.
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Legislative processes are slow, opaque and subject to swings in opinion.
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If the white is fully opaque, plate it and eat up!
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The impacts of global warming can seem opaque and far off.
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The report is at best opaque — and at worst deliberately misleading.
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Some days, the weather turns stormy and the waves dark, opaque.
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Electronically-controlled sunroof opaque roller blinds come standard with the GLS.
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The resulting image has a much more detailed and opaque quality.
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"The Saudi government is opaque even for me," Vincenzetti told me.
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It's somewhere that's not light or dark, not transparent or opaque.
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In Washington baseball, as in politics, the truth can be opaque.
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The US prices its prescription drugs with a notoriously opaque system.
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And I tired of the ponderous silences and opaque "meaningful" glances.
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The pair ventures often into free improvisations: playfully dyspeptic, scattered, opaque.
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The broadness of these categories shows how opaque those concepts are.
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Academics argue this is where the process can become very opaque.
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We live inside wide questions without question marks — looming, opaque umbrellas.
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In the story, the motivations of the characters are somewhat opaque.
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The very nature of settlements means that MGM's motivation remains opaque.
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The traditionally opaque world of high-end real estate certainly applies.
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Police crime-scene investigations and autopsies, meanwhile, are opaque and perfunctory.
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"Ultimately, opaque technical operations lead to superstition and fear," Pfeiffer said.
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Varela's office said the process of compiling the list was "opaque".
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The business was opaque, making little public, not even an address.
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Given Russia's notoriously opaque nuclear sector, we might be waiting awhile.
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Mostly, though, he lusts vaguely after various women with opaque motivations.
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Naturally, there was an opaque and complicated structure of offshore accounts.
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China's new cloud law remains as opaque as the Beijing atmosphere China's new cloud law remains as opaque as the Beijing atmosphere Multiply that complexity by dozens of governments around the world creating their own standards.
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Breakingviews Deutsche Bank's vast and opaque balance sheet is holding it back.
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Behind them are countless palm trees, sprouting open into an opaque sky.
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Some books are so fleshy they're opaque: Lord of the Rings numbs.
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The movie's synopsis is admittedly opaque: Two cello prodigies reunite in Shanghai.
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"What Google does with it [...] is almost entirely opaque," Cardozo told us.
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It's opaque and long-lasting, yet plush and comfortable on the lips.
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But the country has remained opaque on what the program specifically covers.
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Iranian exports have become more opaque since U.S. sanctions returned in November.
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On both these questions Brexiteers are being deliberately—and perhaps dangerously—opaque.
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They are passive, mute, opaque, and non-existent as objects of desire.
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Progress reports from both sides of the negotiations have been increasingly opaque.
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How masses of personal data are shared between security agencies is opaque.
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It's the change of business from being very opaque to very transparent.
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Opaque proprietary metrics keep the imbalance between different parties in the dark.
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Trying to play by the rules can be a laborious, opaque process.
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He's opaque with his schedule, obscuring his dealings with the energy industry.
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Snap's interface is minimal and cool, but opaque to some older users.
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Even the company itself said the opaque system is leading to mistrust.
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Nor was JK2131 Westminster quite as anonymous as its opaque name suggested.
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Indeed, some may be making the market even more opaque than before.
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"How long this process takes is opaque to the claimant," said Dunn.
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With one swipe your info is covered by a unique, opaque pattern.
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The (highly variable) bottom line is that lithium pricing is extraordinarily opaque.
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Still, the approach is a little more opaque than your typical Kickstarter.
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CNBC | Craig Dale The reasons for the apparent delay are somewhat opaque.
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In seconds, she has the straight, opaque line we all aim for.
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Making sure the pigment is opaque so that the hue really shines.
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Metaphorically speaking, you see through the physically opaque to the metaphysically transcendent.
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In other words, the costs of custodial service are an opaque bag.
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The global financial system is so intertwined that links can remain opaque.
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Another staffer concern is that Our Revolution's endorsement process is frustratingly opaque.
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The ownership structure and finances of HNA's Hong Kong airlines are opaque.
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Commander Lawrence and Dean are both slippery; their intentions, at first, opaque.
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The financial terms of the Boeing and Airbus deals are surprisingly opaque.
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However, the process in which these artists receive payment has become opaque.
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Theron donned a sparkling poncho over a sleeveless dress and opaque tights.
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They are able to sparse whether a material is cloudy or opaque.
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On my first trips, the bay and rivers seemed vast, uncharted, opaque.
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Insurance companies are hiding this new effort behind opaque and confusing jargon.
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In many cases, that involvement is hidden behind layers of opaque ownership.
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But even if love is blind, a reality show is pretty opaque.
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As a result, you get reporting tools that are confusing and opaque.
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Meanwhile, the workings of the multinational conglomerate behind the platform remain opaque.
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Some lawmakers are taking issue with Amazon's opaque policy around its badges.
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Plastics can be stiff or flexible, opaque or transparent, durable or fragile.
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Its mission and capabilities were opaque to many doctors on the island.
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For starters, the sources of economic assault on regular people are opaque.
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The reason for the switch remains, for this reader, unsatisfying and opaque.
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He found the response by TransCanada to be flat-footed and opaque.
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Other decisions were more opaque, though their effects were just as profound.
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To that end, we've rounded up the best opaque tights under $30.
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Yet it is opaque in key areas, with gaping shortcomings in accountability.
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Caucuses in particular have been derided as old-fashioned, opaque or inaccessible.
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The one thing that Metcalf can't do, it seems, is opaque monsters.
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Diagnosticians, artificial or human, would be the baseball players—proficient but opaque.
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Nor was JK6603 Westminster quite as anonymous as its opaque name suggested.
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More transparency for China's opaque currency regime, for example, would not hurt.
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You're making it less opaque, giving more kind of clarity to investors.
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Activists say they fear that the opaque trade could now move underground.
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No longer would court decisions remain shielded under an opaque written system.
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Yet the Turkish case is flawed by its opaque and selective omissions.
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Yang's campaign was similarly opaque on whether he supports Medicare for All.
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But right now, the guidance they do give is far too opaque.
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Now, after some backroom wrangling, the language has become slightly more opaque.
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What should artists and designers make of this research on opaque couché?
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Even Hyperallergic has had its run-ins with Facebook's opaque nudity policies.
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Much like the issue of abortion, however, Kavanaugh's stance is somewhat opaque.
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Maryland law dictates that car windows should be no more than 65% opaque.
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Here we have an opaque, quantitative investment strategy masquerading as an S.&P.
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Justice in China is not only opaque: it also rarely involves much argument.
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The Chinese space program has been carefully controlled, and in some aspects, opaque.
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Step 3: Paint on two more layers until the pigment is fully opaque.
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That leaves one less opaque mass shooting on Wednesday night in Birmingham, Alabama.
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They first teach the birds to eat food out of an opaque cylinder.
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The code may make it less opaque and outdated, and judges' lives easier.
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But they became so complex and opaque that they could not be priced.
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Tracing it lays bare his slipshod policymaking, even if his motives remain opaque.
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The orders are packed in an opaque "exit bag" and then heat-sealed.
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It makes terms and processes accessible where, before, they were opaque and confusing.
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In addition, many AI systems and the companies that make them are opaque.
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In fact, being opaque preserves their discretion to make changes on the fly.
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This opaque state of affairs was not how body cameras were originally pitched.
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"It's all opaque so it's nothing but a guessing game," he told me.
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Add pecans and vanilla, and stir until candy becomes opaque, about one minute.
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Of course, this little quirk of Twitter was always opaque to new users.
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All they have known is one president ruling over an opaque political system.
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"It's an opaque situation," Aptiv Chief Executive Kevin Clark told analysts on Wednesday.
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In Vermont, rules that regulate the opaque business of data-brokers would disappear.
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Responsibility for overseeing such an opaque structure goes beyond employees and external advisers.
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They are opaque and unaccountable, and some are vehicles for patronage and corruption.
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But other important relationships remain opaque, at times making the biography feel unintimate.
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But Iran's corrupt, opaque economy would probably be struggling even without Mr Trump.
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You can create something strong and impactful without making it opaque and heavy.
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Terms of service are completely opaque, nobody knows what they're signing up for.
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Opaque procurement processes have made it hard for startups to win government contracts.
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Instead, the company's policies seek to limit it in a rather opaque manner.
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The workings of Iran's judiciary are opaque and rarely open to public scrutiny.
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The material has shifted from an opaque (likely) silicone to clear (probably) nylon.
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The introduction of these categories has proven to be incredibly consequential and opaque.
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Viant is a Consensys spoke that wants to make supply chains less opaque.
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Now, help us understand this opaque world by filling out this first survey.
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While this may be opaque to many, let me tell you, it matters.
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The reason is the opaque process the bureau uses to compile the count.
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Add to that our insistence on only wearing truly opaque tights that 1.
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The article is "rather abstract and opaque," Dr. Lynn and Dr. Lilienfeld wrote.
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It contains titanium dioxide, an ingredient that powers mineral sunscreen and dries opaque.
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But the process by which they deliberate and cast their votes is opaque.
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But you'd never know any of this from his opaque answer to Hatch.
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Ancient and opaque, like an allegory that suggests we sacrifice our most beloved.
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But even the amounts are opaque, and none of the effects are known.
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"This market is a lot more opaque than the bond market," he said.
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But some environmental groups have accused Zinke of running an overly opaque department.
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But there is also pressure for transparency in the long, opaque selection process.
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But the system is still too opaque, and resistance to regulation remains fierce.
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The integrity of this complex and opaque system simply can not be guaranteed.
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And despite the 1,500-plus page tome presenting the idea, it's still opaque.
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Critics say some investment from China was agreed upon in an opaque manner.
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Clester leaned in to address the driver, but the windows were tinted opaque.
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So basically taking "one hit" today is a pretty opaque unit of measurement.
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But, in pursuing a strictly technical response, Facebook risks becoming an opaque censor.
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They see a system rife with administrative inefficiencies, opaque prices, and customer dissatisfaction.
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It looks vibrant and opaque, and also feels extremely comfortable on the lips.
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The toilet is made private by opaque glass but it's far from soundproof.
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Electro chromatic glass shifts from clear to opaque for privacy and light sensitivity.
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The promotion lent respectability to China's notoriously opaque and arbitrary criminal justice system.
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She said opacifiers -- not pacifiers -- which are additives used to make materials opaque.
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The filmmaker is notoriously opaque about his films, refusing to indulge in analysis.
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In its unrefined state, crude oil is a coarse, opaque, and slippery liquid.
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Attorneys who regularly deal with visa issues say the waiver process is opaque.
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Some popular algorithms are proprietary and opaque, stymieing independent evaluation and sowing mistrust.
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The crusade to silence words, images and thoughts is both opaque and arbitrary.
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For most of its existence, Huawei was opaque to people in China, too.
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Incidents of public corruption, if any, may seem opaque to the general public.
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Existing archives are largely opaque or jumbled, making them hard to piece together.
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Privacy level: Do you want the divider to be solid, thick, and opaque?
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Therefore, the screens are fairly opaque for privacy but still let light through.
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Patreon's reliability, particularly when compared to Steam's infamously opaque practices, shouldn't be understated.
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The criteria for inclusion are opaque, making it subject to errors and abuse.
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His paintings can be viewed as opaque sacred emblems, conduits of spiritual revolution.
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On this, he remained enigmatic and opaque -- other, that is, than the smile.
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Its methods were secret; its targets were largely secret; its results were opaque.
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They want to increase visibility in a market that has often been opaque.
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London says the EU system of granting market access is opaque and unreliable.
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The opaque nature of the private market also increases the risk for fraud.
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National Security Council proceedings are necessarily secret and unavoidably opaque to the public.
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Fighting for democracy, she explained, continued to be an opaque concept for her.
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Danish officials said it was like dealing with an opaque new world superpower.
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The choreographer George Balanchine was opaque about the meanings buried in his ballets.
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Sometimes it's transparent; sometimes it's opaque with frosting; sometimes it's translucent with mist.
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But the marketing materials on Arconic's British website are opaque on the issue.
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Kohl pencils are easy to smudge but will retain their opaque black quality.
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But as it was within the walls of Pulsar, those "issues" remain opaque.
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Sometimes public policy failures are opaque — layered with confusing complexities and unintended consequences.
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And in it, NBC's corporate channels appeared to still be ineffective and opaque.
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And as Vox's Tara Golshan has reported, questions of perjury are equally opaque.
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Almost three years after the coup, Thai politics remains precarious and very opaque.
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We had separate motivations and how we got paid was a little opaque.
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Growers in California complain that the legalization process has been opaque and confusing.
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Better to be opaque than poison the well against family members in advance.
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It is deliberately opaque, on the level of sentence as well as plot.
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In other cases, like connected lightbulbs, the value proposition is even more opaque.
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Intelligence agencies like the FBI and NSA are relatively opaque to the public.
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Their findings, detailed in The Atlantic: The dimming they observed was much deeper at blue wavelengths than at red wavelengths, meaning that the object blocking the star was not opaque (an opaque object would block both colors in equal measure).
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So the polls heading into Tuesday's vote are a window, but an opaque one.
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But leading groups have long been a secretive part of an opaque political system.
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Yet Labour's commitment was opaque, since it talked of retaining all the market's benefits.
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Much of this is due to the opaque and complicated nature of school policing.
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Up until now, lenders have only done so through investment units using opaque channels.
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Traditional investors still view bitcoin as opaque and highly speculative with potential to collapse.
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An opaque and secretive public relations machine is helping to prepare for the succession.
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So you get the illusion of a nude leg, without having an opaque stocking.
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Go over the line a second time to make sure it's crisp and opaque.
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Estimates are hard to obtain, because venture-capital investments are private and notoriously opaque.
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I became markedly less bitter about the opaque health care system we live in.
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Privacy advocates have long criticized mobile app permissions as being both invasive and opaque.
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Britain also maintains a network of opaque offshore satellites, including the British Virgin Islands.
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"Hedge funds are charging exorbitant fees for high-risk and opaque investments," said James.
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In some ways, it's an even harder cartel to fight because it's so opaque.
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"It is incredibly opaque and the majority of the trade is hidden," Gerber said.
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As a result, the political system is getting more opaque and uncertain, not less.
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The joy of this sometimes tedious, sometimes opaque game comes from admiring these cats.
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Lastly, as Frank Pasquale writes in The Black Box Society, credit scoring is opaque.
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The language of their rulings ranges from detailed and rigorous to thin and opaque.
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Analysts say the way in which this is assessed can be complex and opaque.
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The black hole envisioned by Thorne had a much thinner, opaque disk of material.
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Contracts between farmers and their partners are opaque at best, and manipulative at worst.
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A lack of financial supervision allowed opaque financial instruments to flourish, aggravating the problem.
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Yet he remains opaque, as estranged from the reader as he is from himself.
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Many national leaders, however, want to keep control of the opaque process to themselves.
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Once the complaint is lodged, the venues for litigating it can be maddeningly opaque.
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The show has been purposely opaque on the details of what happened that night.
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An institution that has come to prize itself for transparency suddenly has become opaque.
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Same goes for Mega Man X, except the standard cartridge color is Opaque White.
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After you do however, the once opaque intent of the album comes into focus.
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You can dress it up or down and it is very opaque as well.
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The main issue was the union's opaque policy-making procedures and unrepresentative electoral system.
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It shapes the world in which we live in ways both obvious and opaque.
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It is see-through but has undergone so much travel that it looks opaque.
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Each is also transparent to solar, but appears opaque when viewed from an angle.
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Opaque shells at that depth were dated to between 27,860 and 33,980 years ago.
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Accordingly, her vision for a vibrant queer tomorrow becomes an opaque history of yesterday.
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Radiocarbon dating suggests the opaque shells are a lot older than the translucent ones.
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ARM and AMD and Intel offer these types of chips, but they're all opaque.
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Danny was as contained and as opaque as any teen-age boy, she supposed.
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Chinese politics today is usually as opaque as it was during the Mao years.
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Those who have previously benefited from India's opaque systems are naturally opposed to Aadhaar.
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In a number of telephone and email conversations, she remained completely opaque, a cipher.
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However, the company isn't doing itself very many favors by being a bit opaque.
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Though opaque, this transparency failure cannot be described as a violation of a promise.
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We liked the black opaque glass look, feeling that this elevated the premium feel.
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They're also designed to be be water-proof, and look opaque with one swipe.
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The key difference is that dividends are equitable and open, while buybacks are opaque.
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Despite calls for greater transparency, the work of the Tennis Integrity Unit remains opaque.
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I can picture with some clarity the opaque white bottle, the odd gray cap.
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I will rise up from you opaque as the angel admiring your rotted waist.
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But it will not dwell on the country's jobless youth or opaque court politics.
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Transparency is also key — the student loan market as a whole is hopelessly opaque.
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Like other such pairs, the two women had come together through opaque, bureaucratic machinery.
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But they have achieved something made elusive by TikTok's opaque algorithm: lasting viral fame.
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The group itself is opaque, communicating mainly by infrequent posts on Twitter and YouTube.
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The windows of his parlor floor apartment were magnificent in scale but ominously opaque.
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Critics said the newly disclosed information underscored the need to abolish an opaque system.
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" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday called the administration's response "opaque and often chaotic.
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Yet until recently they have not been as omnipresent, opaque and inhuman as Facebook.
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Beside you is a pool overflowing with a red, opaque liquid … Is it blood?
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It seems we're in for more opaque, inconsistent rules-based enforcement and speech debates.
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The term "newsworthy" may be abused and opaque, but that's newsworthy under any definition.
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" Because of the coronavirus outbreak, she added, "the veil is less opaque right now.
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But people get taken out of the equation in more opaque ways as well.
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For all his heavy interiority, Mr. Heath, who died in 2016, is not opaque.
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The Atlantic is an opaque blue and not a clear ocean like the Caribbean.
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The Chinese conglomerate faces a liquidity crunch and scrutiny over its opaque ownership structure.
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The system is opaque and curbs job mobility, as rights are hard to transfer.
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For the normally opaque field of federal clemency, that press release displayed remarkable transparency.
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However some financial professionals argue that they come with high commissions and opaque disclosures.
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The chapter titles are opaque, more like symbolic poetry than guideposts for the book.
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SCOTT: Real people are often emotionally opaque to others and unavailable even to themselves.
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The targeting can be precise, but the source of the ad might be opaque.
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The EU's processes are opaque, and the biggest decisions are made behind closed doors.
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It's 0.35mm thick and it can switch from opaque to transparent in 0.7 seconds.
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Analysts and bankers say opaque Chinese data and lack of precedent hinder clear estimates.
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Is it firm and flaking apart at the touch, no longer translucent but opaque?
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Been getting by with opaque tights and boots in NYC but spring is here!
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But the local decisions that helped get us into this fix are mostly opaque.
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This corner of the art market is the most opaque thing in the world.
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Analysts and bankers say opaque Chinese data and lack of precedent hinder clear estimates.
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It is opaque, clannish, secretive, and obsessed with its own jargon, codes, and folklore.
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The fund — McKinsey Investment Office, or MIO Partners — is as opaque as its parent.
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There's a reason the term pass-through itself sounds opaque and difficult to understand.
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And the health benefits of the wellness movement at large are ever more opaque.
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But matte, opaque formulations, as opposed to shimmery or sparkly ones, are key here.
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"Intimidating and xenophobic rhetoric, media bias and opaque campaign financing" hindered political debate, he said.
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Exchanges take days to confirm new users, trapping bitcoin and cash inside their opaque innards.
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Analysts of church affairs place Patriarch Kirill among the doubters, but his reasons remain opaque.
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The role art plays in this opaque landscape is more complex than is immediately obvious.
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Artists Gunnar Green and Bernhard Hopfengärtner were intrigued by the opaque nature of algorithmic trading.
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But companies like Lyft and Uber are opaque, releasing very little information about their usage.
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This goes on a little over a minute; throughout the bit, their intentions remain opaque.
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Corporate supply-chain data are often opaque and official trade statistics typically lag by years.
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One of the more opaque segments of Tesla's business just became a little more transparent.
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This is the opposite of what you'd expect—shouldn't an opaque area have more matter?
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China has long been viewed as an indispensable player for dealing with an opaque regime.
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This Angelina-approved true red goes on smooth to create an opaque, slightly shiny finish.
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But if some of the problems have been identified, there are others that remain opaque.
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And North Korea is so opaque that the risk of a catastrophic miscalculation is high.
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In general, the regulatory system that has been assembled in America is complex and opaque.
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Even then, they're displayed in a chronological list, too opaque to understand at a glance.
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It's fine, but the underlying systems that inform your strategic decision-making are too opaque.
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Like many geeks, I have a piece of opaque tape to occlude my Chromebook's camera.
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The opaque nature of the process could help YouTube prevent users from gaming the system.
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But nearly three years later, the ruling class has yet to change its opaque ways.
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The Syrian civil war is as confusing and opaque as it is sadistic and bloody.
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Cryptocurrency markets are opaque, and it is difficult to pinpoint exact catalysts for price moves.
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They fault Uber for its arbitrary and opaque process for removing drivers from the platform.
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But we were pleasantly surprised by the opaque color payoff of most of the eyeshadows.
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Some money was (and still is) buried in the DOD's notoriously opaque budget, they say.
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Why it matters: The IAU initiative can help democratize what's usually an opaque naming process.
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It's inescapable, opaque, and it wields immense power over the fundamental functions of our society.
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THE FOREIGN-EXCHANGE (FX) market is as opaque and old-fashioned as it is enormous.
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Add garlic, and cook, stirring occasionally, until shrimp are opaque, 2 to 3 minutes. 3.
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Mr Khamenei himself controls Setad, an opaque conglomerate with interests in almost all economic sectors.
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Before we filed the lawsuit -- first of all, the U.S. Attorney's Office is completely opaque.
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Both the Clinton and Trump campaigns are more opaque than most, making sourcing more difficult.
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Countries such as Zambia and Congo-Brazzaville have taken out opaque loans from Chinese companies.
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This system has been criticized in recent months for its seemingly arbitrary and opaque nature.
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Many allusions are rather opaque to us 100 years on, especially because families were creative.
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Instead, jellyfish skin can wrinkle and become opaque when they want to scare off predators.
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Some sellers have made matters worse with techniques ranging from opaque pricing to emotional blackmail.
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Pockets of softness mix with more obstinate applications of opaque color, instigating an emotional response.
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Information about this subject tends to be opaque and online sources are often not comprehensive.
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The same opaque exchange occurs on social networks like Facebook, online search and online journalism.
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Instead, they utilize an opaque network of agents - making it harder to regulate the businesses.
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At the moment, the answers are opaque, but secrecy watchdogs like Aftergood are asking anyway.
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And top off your Parisian look with a swipe of opaque, crimson-red lip color.
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OPAQUE MARKET Revenue-sharing incentives are a particular bone of contention in the LME community.
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"We don't know how the IAB structure really works, it's very opaque," he tells us.
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"It's largely due to the fact that CFIUS is an opaque process," he told Reuters.
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Those earlier shows weren't deliberately opaque and didn't deliberately withhold necessary information from the audience.
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Market price movements are opaque and subject to swings in opinion — but markets move quickly.
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Industry critics say the market is opaque and vulnerable to risks such as money laundering.
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One thing is certain, however: The Tinder algorithm black box just got even more opaque.
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Until then, both liberals and conservatives will rightly claim that enforcement is haphazard and opaque.
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For Australian game studio Opaque Space, you could say life has been imitating art recently.
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Even at the water line he saw nothing; the surface was an opaque green murk.
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There's also a potato, which seems a little opaque in terms of its possible uses.
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We have no idea what the OCO is spending money on, since it's mostly opaque.
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Yet for all its power, Indian justice remains erratic, opaque, undermanned and, above all, slow.
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Bonus points, we're guessing, if you can wear the look two ways — transparent and opaque.
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Among environmentalists, there is a strong suspicion that Pruitt is being opaque for a reason.
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DoorDash is under fire for an opaque tipping system that customers are saying is misleading.
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As much as it's transparent, there are moments in the day where it's literally opaque.
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Because the map was so opaque, we felt as if we were solving a puzzle.
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For many people, the colors are jarring because their tones seem too gaudy or opaque.
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Political elites take advantage of weakened institutions and opaque electoral processes for their personal benefit.
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Reforms to this opaque structure could include making the Parliament more central in decision-making.
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Krieger concludes that the entire apparatus is hopelessly opaque, concealing racist aims behind contorted justifications.
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Over the years, media companies tailored articles and videos to game Google's opaque search algorithm.
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The closed and opaque nature of Iran's security apparatus make Iran's tripwires difficult to forecast.
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Still, we should be wary of celebrating any instance of censorship, especially by opaque corporations.
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If Phoebe's radicalization remains opaque, perhaps that's due to the unfathomable nature of such transformations.
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Critics blame the opaque system for preventing people from knowing much about how PBMs operate.
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It's still true that most currency and transaction systems today are opaque, inefficient, and expensive.
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This pair is extra opaque (which adds warmth) and feels silky smooth against my skin.
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That's the competition, and it's a murky, ugly business whose logic is opaque to outsiders.
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The bottom line: Potential public market investors shouldn't worry about Aramco's historically opaque management structure.
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The cabochon uses an ancient technique and still works great with opaque and translucent stones.
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The veterans of Vietnam are opaque coming to transparent, like onion paper held to light.
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The personalities of the main characters remain opaque, their inner lives the subject of speculation.
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The D.H.S. has several opaque multimillion dollar contracts with private data analytics companies like Palantir.
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" The panel said that consumers suffer because of a "complex and opaque drug pricing system.
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Lemieux's all-male protesters fight against, or express support for, something opaque but unmistakably ideological.
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The governor started to engage in the opaque insider politics that he had campaigned against.
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Determining the value of taxable assets through an opaque process of bureaucratic whimsy invites corruption.
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My father, a famously opaque man, is made visible to me in these small ways.
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The humor is often oblique — conveyed through irony, paradox, double meaning, and opaque cultural references.
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The indictment offers insight into the unregulated and opaque world of the litigation-finance business.
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Official data shows that Anbang is owned by an opaque web of largely interconnected companies.
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Democrats are opaque about what effort they are taking to engage the potential new voters.
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But despite the various agreements, Iran remains a difficult and opaque place to do business.
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Some, like Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, have called the Trump administration's guidelines opaque and confusing.
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The masks, $28.80 for four, go on bright and opaque, and they are selfie-perfect.
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The Walmart shopping experience is largely opaque with respect to the chain's dependence on imports.
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Meanwhile, the legal arrangements to keep them at arm's length from those businesses remain opaque.
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And still, companies often use opaque or boilerplate language to discuss social and environmental concerns.
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Facebook can even use its opaque suite of machine-learning mechanisms to fuel that quest.
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"I do not believe that the controls, the opaque agreement, are adequate protection," she said.
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Others, however, say Chinese business practices are so opaque that it is hard to tell.
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This blurring of memory and invention means Buckmaster's past remains as opaque as his present.
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She said her experience dealing with China's opaque bureaucracy has helped her with the crisis.
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The errors are now, finally, almost resolved, she said — but the process was maddeningly opaque.
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But the Schubert was roundly defeated by numbers: overweight, opaque, positively galumphing in the Menuetto.
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Egypt's security services are notoriously opaque and unpredictable, especially under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
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Yet sophisticated AI tools are opaque; they do not serve up explanations with their outputs.
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And the process by which the keepers decide who may enter is mysterious and opaque.
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"That investigation is running on its own timeline that is completely opaque to the public."
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Cataracts cause the lens of the eye to becomes progressively opaque, resulting in blurred vision.
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The opaque and inefficient nature of this electoral process may lead to a constitutional crisis.
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Diners glimpse what is to come through hanging opaque panels that look like corrugated ice.
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The methodology used to compile the list was opaque, and critics immediately questioned its accuracy.
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In commodity markets, particularly the opaque physical market-place, price can be the best signal.
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That's my best guess, but Canadian law enforcement is pretty opaque in explaining their strategy.
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But as streaming services become more dominant, the economics of entertainment have become more opaque.
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Lamp with nickel-coated body and a disk of opaque glass as lampshade: Bauhaus style.
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Many business owners say the process to apply for a waiver is lengthy and opaque.
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Sitting over them are large, flat daubs of translucent scarlet and opaque orange and green.
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However, activists fear that this goes beyond just sloppy, disrespectful, opaque, and shameful morgue management.
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Anbang, a Beijing-based company with more than $250 billion in assets, is notoriously opaque.
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As data analysis and platform spying become more sophisticated, every price could be bespoke and opaque.
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Numbers like that, in an industry that's notoriously opaque, invariably grab the attention of startup companies.
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And field notes left behind by archaeologists over the years are considered too opaque to conceptualize.
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It's an eye-popping valuation for a financial company with opaque metrics and plenty of competition.
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I wore a pair of fine linen hose beneath a nice thick pair of woollen opaque
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But cautious reviews and an opaque roadmap from company officials have created some unease among investors.
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Compared with sunscreen, sunblock tends to be opaque and leave a white film on the skin.
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Meanwhile, the benefits of gabapentin for mental health remain opaque: Some people say it helps them.
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I had a thick, opaque cream called Dermacolor that would cover a third of an arm.
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It makes the organization more opaque and less helpful to those struggling (regardless of the cause).
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But opaque rules have given politicians leeway in judging how much they can get away with.
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"Obviously, you guys know these are on the sheer side — they're not fully opaque," Star said.
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In opaque terms, that means Grindr expects a high level of self-moderation from its community.
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Despite Twitter's countless calls to increase transparency, its abuse report infrastructure remains opaque and sometimes confounding.
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The strange thing about these machine learning systems, though, is how opaque they are to analysis.
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He saw and used black as vibrant matter: by turns opaque or transparent, matte or shiny.
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As you can imagine, this makes for a cumbersome and quite opaque process, with limited traceability.
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Many works have literary undertones and without a required reading list, the material can feel opaque.
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Venture investing is based on relationships; being opaque makes for an inauspicious beginning of a relationship.
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White blood cells might join the fight, thickening the mucus and turning it white and opaque.
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Some politicians alleged that its terms were too opaque, and appeared to favour the foreign companies.
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After 30 minutes, the silhouettes of four officers appeared through a wall made of opaque glass.
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The Lip Kit shades are trendy but wearable, and the formula is opaque and long-lasting.
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" Her blinders are so opaque that she claims to see, "no signs of leverage building up.
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Trump's positions on foreign policy, among them on Egypt, are more opaque than those of Clinton.
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What is censored and what is allowed is an opaque differentiation, decided upon by the government.
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" These days, it has become a somewhat bland and opaque description of personality: "She's really nice.
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"Soil" is covered in opaque gray umber as if to hide or replace the underlying surface.
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But Twitter's history of opaque protocols for addressing abuse casts its inaction in a different light.
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Besides, opaque supply chains allow companies to buy palm oil from suppliers not bound by IPOP.
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The protests have shattered years of political inertia and unsettled Algeria's opaque but powerful security establishment.
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The camouflage was not opaque enough to block other museum visitors from seeing what was happening.
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Hew too far in the other direction and it feels opaque in ways that are forgettable.
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Nothing looked like it should, and my children's faces hovered agonizingly somewhere behind an opaque screen.
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The central bank froze shares of Moldindconbank in October 2016 believing its ownership structure was opaque.
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The mixed messaging is unsurprisingly reflected in the opaque language of the draft legislation on encryption.
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And some gyms have much better facilities... opaque shower curtains that are flush to the floor.
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PBMs are one of the least regulated and most opaque sectors in the health care industry.
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They contain details of thousands of opaque offshore companies, trusts and foundations used by Mossack's clients.
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If they're dry and opaque, then you can tell they were steamed a long time ago.
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During a gentle C-section, doctors use a clear plastic drape instead of an opaque curtain.
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Then there was the description: opaque, creamy color that eventually wears down to an even stain.
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They can either blend fuels to get the credits or buy them in an opaque market.
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In those cases, the translucent shells had similar apparent ages while the opaque ones did not.
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Other than holding the Kim-Trump summit, the US diplomatic strategy with North Korea seems opaque.
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They are opaque and too heavily influenced by narrow special interests through legal and financial engineering.
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For the numbered series Procession, Kim combines the rigidity of geometry with opaque, liquid-like forms.
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The group's debt-fuelled buying spree and opaque ownership structure have also sparked global regulatory scrutiny.
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Sunshine is often the best medicine, especially when it comes to opaque institutions like prisons. 6.
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The American people deserve the full picture when it comes to the pharmaceutical industry's opaque pricing.
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Politicians have berated Apple for paying too little by setting up complex and opaque tax structures.
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Finally, a celebrity fight broke open a corner of the opaque world of high-ticket art.
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Under the purposefully opaque 2016 standard, however, this good work became a liability, not an asset.
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Kaolin clay in the formula helps maintain an opaque finish, although the texture feels notably emollient.
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While some innovations have cropped up, notably "Abolish ICE," the party's position on immigration remains opaque.
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An opaque business environment in Iran and political uncertainty in the United States are to blame.
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These are people of immense power and influence, but their actual skills and abilities are opaque.
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This is one of my pet peeves: an oyster should be opaque; it shouldn't be gray.
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Personal relationships and opaque power networks are often more important than formal procedures, parties, and laws.
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More from Tonic: While the logic behind the firings remains opaque, activists have decried the move.
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"Computers are quite opaque, looking at them it's impossible to see how they work," wrote Newman.
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Soak the dried noodles in hot water until pliable and opaque; drain, rinse, and drain well.
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And as opaque as his allusions may have seemed outside Poland, his international reputation grew steadily.
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In otherwise opaque comments, Mr. Trump appeared to concede the need to make computers more secure.
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The more opaque rule-making is, the less chance there is for discussion, debate, and destigmatization.
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Critics of the council's actions under the Obama administration asserted that the body's deliberations were opaque.
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But airlines complain that the US industry leader, Sabre, is opaque, frustrating, and sometimes slow-moving.
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If you look at how people are thinking about the pay gap, it's often very opaque.
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"There are few states in Mexico more politically opaque than Tamaulipas," said political analyst Jesús Cantú.
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One proposal, nicknamed Cupid's Arrow, envisions using the spacecraft to study the opaque atmosphere of Venus.
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"I'm thinking about the consumer's perspective," Mr. Dekking said of the art world's often-opaque practices.
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After a few clicks, the opaque image of the greenhouse is full of little pink spots.
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Australia's loose and opaque campaign finance laws have made the country especially vulnerable to outside influence.
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A challenging feature of machine learning is that exactly how a given system works is opaque.
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But the referendums have stirred controversy because of low participation rates and opaque monitoring of results.
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She referred to opacifiers — not pacifiers — as a type of additive used to make materials opaque.
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For a game played in the glare of open competition, its inner machinations were more opaque.
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The labyrinthine plot she'd constructed was full of dead ends; characters' motivations were opaque to her.
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Flip the phone over and a semi-opaque plastic backing gives a glimpse of modular guts.
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Neural networks are notoriously opaque; it's typically very hard to tease out exactly what they've learned.
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I just wish I could live with myself for being so needlessly opaque about it all.
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But Debussy's "Prélude à l'Après-Midi d'un Faune," which opened the concert, felt opaque and awkward.
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It has a sweet deal for businesses, offering them tax breaks in an unusually opaque arrangement.
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This historical detritus is glued into painstaking collages, though her organizational principles always remain somewhat opaque.
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The couple's account provides a rare glimpse into the workings of China's opaque state security system.
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Fourth, the VA's process for determining claims of full-body exposure is opaque, the report says.
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That dark art seems to emanate from other, even more opaque branches of the Russian government.
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"No one really knows about Tesla and its strategy, because it is so opaque," said Coulter.
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From the point of view of light, the entire universe was a glowing, yet opaque, wall.
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Best of all, it comes in an opaque white version that lets you see your phone.
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Then we encountered the water, lots of it, opaque and brown and quick, traversing the road.
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Egyptian air crash investigations have a record of being slow, opaque and prone to political considerations.
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Because of their opaque nature, it is hard to put an exact figure on shadow economies.
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WalkMe crossed $100 million ARR in Q2 2019, as well, though its IPO plans are opaque.
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Vox is launching an investigation into the notoriously opaque addiction rehab industry, called The Rehab Racket.
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The country is growing more opaque both literally and figuratively, as smog intensifies and data blurs.
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Colman is opaque during this confession, but almost vibrating with the act of saying something unspeakable.
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However, with impressive legwork and number-crunching, the Times has made the picture much less opaque.
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From the sidewalk, this inner window looks opaque, but that's only because it's facing a wall.
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"It is truly the most opaque of all black boxes in health care," Mr. Turpin said.
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This whole process has been opaque, it has been not transparent, it's not open and engaged.
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And one reason we don't know is that Mueller's own activity, intentions, and strategy remain opaque.
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The process is opaque, so it's been hard for observers to know what the holdup is.
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The Trump Organization is an opaque, privately held enterprise with business interests all over the globe.
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"NATO's policy with regard to Russia has remained unfriendly and opaque," Medvedev said, according to CNN.
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Meanwhile the laws surrounding the sharing and use of intelligence by allied governments are entirely opaque.
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Mr Comey has hinted at further, opaque reasons for the move: "There are none," Mr Sessions averred.
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Debt has piled up in China's opaque and ever-expanding corporate sector and in U.S. leveraged finance.
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Most trading houses have so far ruled out floating on public markets and their valuations remain opaque.
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Bidders in the failed tender to manufacture new license plates complained of an opaque and irregular process.
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Canada has come under fire in the past for what critics have said is an opaque process.
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"The market is opaque and it is still in a private placement domain," said another DCM banker.
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Enamored Hi-Shine Nail Lacquer in Opaque Smoky Purple Gray and Gunmetal Silver, $18 for both; marcjacobsbeauty.
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He takes his hand off a radio controller and peels off a pair of opaque white goggles.
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"Free Cash Flow is being sapped by increasing acquisitions and equity investments into opaque entities," he added.
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Caught in a dizzying though still totally opaque political realignment, we were contending with a new language.
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President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi's government is opaque, and there are few independent journalists to question it.
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Many seasons on, this once-opaque vision is suddenly clear, and could hold clues for her future.
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Ta then swipes the same shade along the bottom lash line, creating an opaque layer of color.
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The Samsung Group is so vast, so opaque, and so unknowable that it's impossible to feel anything.
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The credibility of the threat is difficult to assess, because Saudi finances are notoriously opaque, experts said.
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Advocates said the panel was a long overdue step toward fixing the department's flawed and opaque system.
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To those unabused by an awareness of back door maneuvering, a whole world of deceit remains opaque.
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Since Valve ultimately made the call on including games, the process could also seem arbitrary and opaque.
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One of the worries is that moves to regulate the opaque, high-risk market are gaining momentum.
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"There's this sense that art is this weird other world that's really opaque and sinister," he said.
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Even Academy members eligible to vote in preliminary rounds said they found the process confusing and opaque.
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Packaging-wise, the three opaque quartz crystal fragrance bottles are unlike any we've seen on the market.
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Bresch on Wednesday blamed misconception about EpiPen prices on an "opaque and frustrating" system for pricing pharmaceuticals.
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Yet the logic of the demolitions was often opaque: buildings belonging to bigwigs were allegedly left standing.
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The magazine reports that the Oscar winner wore customized contact lenses that made his eyes totally opaque.
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Talc may be used in cosmetics, for example, to prevent caking or to make facial makeup opaque.
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The three designers' very different works illuminate various phases of an often opaque yet ubiquitous global industry.
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While the velocity criteria is opaque, r/trendingsubreddits does a good job of surfacing communities experiencing growth.
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Earlier this month the FTC reported that the conglomerates had eliminated most of their opaque circular-shareholdings.
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It's not the first time the LME has ventured into the opaque world of London's bullion trade.
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Big oil-for-infrastructure contracts, often involving Mr dos Santos's inner circle, seem to be deliberately opaque.
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All this means that there may be a kind of logic to Trump's hardline yet opaque tactics.
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Rather, the Myanmar Surprise underlines the difficulties in tracking a notoriously opaque and unpredictable global supply chain.
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Opaque milky glass meets clear in this double old fashioned ($423, pictured) and pitcher ($209, not pictured).
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Opaque milky glass meets clear in this double old fashioned ($42, pictured) and pitcher ($209, not pictured).
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Throughout this series, we've shown that the mechanics of startup finance are not that confusing or opaque.
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Groups are a particularly tricky part of Facebook's ecosystem, because they are intimate, insular, and often opaque.
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Such reports may support the women's fears, but the data regarding Muslim women is far more opaque.
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Viola shows several eyes up close, including an opaque fish eye and a berry-like bird eye.
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I was aided by the lenses, which are pretty opaque and diminish your sight by 60 percent.
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Even the smaller scale works by Dunbar, no matter how silent and opaque, deliver an allegorical grandeur.
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And the exemption process is an open-ended timeline, entirely dependent on the DEA's opaque policy bureau.
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However, the CBO does few favors for itself when methodologies and models are opaque or simply unavailable.
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The glass itself can be opaque in places, to cover up any unsightly seams in the display.
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new system for detecting bias in otherwise opaque algorithms.
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The notoriously opaque hedge-fund industry has never widely adopted any broad guidelines for calculating performance figures.
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Third, the process for judging the adequacy of Living Wills has been criticized as arbitrary and opaque.
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The unlikely diversity of this alliance stems from the opaque tangle of entities involved in Northern Pass.
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The rumored shortlist only fuels suspicion that closeness to Wall Street governs the opaque decision-making process.
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Public funding, exposure and an opaque investment environment make it difficult for startups to succeed and thrive.
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Fotiadis' work offers a window into Trump's dealings in the complex, opaque world of Eurasian real estate.
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Many shareholders think the process has been autocratic and opaque, and are upset about the skyrocketing costs.
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He added that HNA also needed to do more to explain its oft-criticized opaque ownership structure.
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This being lead, a notoriously opaque market even outside of China, it's a little hard to say.
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The way drugs are dispensed and paid for can be an opaque and antiquated process, Adams said.
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And for many of Younger's American colleagues, their comments were as opaque as the agencies they represent.
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The pockets are opaque and you cannot see whether the wine glasses are oriented up or down.
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Facebook has long drawn ire over its tendency to censor users' posts based on its opaque standards.
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" As for what to expect from North Korea, Clapper said, "They are sensitive, prickly, opaque and unpredictable.
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The Trump administration has been criticized for being particularly opaque, especially when it comes to environmental issues.
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Was it hard to go from something more opaque to fully exposing yourself and being so transparent?
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Their cozy ties to local governments also add pressure for them to support opaque local financing entities.
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Keep the finish sheer for the daylight hours, then layer on a more opaque formula at night.
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The outside of this building looks like an opaque cube, with glass bricks stacked atop one another.
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Bankers have long complained that the tests are too opaque, especially concerning the models the Fed uses.
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Opaque party politics will confuse outside investors and blur the line between some state and private companies.
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Part of the blame lies with the companies, which are consistently opaque about how their services work.
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"Matter and Mind" comprised a low metal container filled with oil, creating an opaque black, shimmering service.
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Until recently, it wasn't even possible because the Bitcoin markets were themselves as opaque as the currency.
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Copyright infringement cases involving art range from the blatant to the extremely opaque — just ask Patrick Cariou.
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Recent reports as well as opaque tweets from Trump himself point to an increasingly exasperated U.S. president.
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Many subsidies take the form of cheap loans from government-controlled banks or through other opaque arrangements.
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So even if the overarching spy plot is a little opaque, the underlying emotions are immensely satisfying.
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Republicans, who have criticized the SIFI process as opaque and arbitrary, have introduced legislation to curb it.
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Here are some recent cases of foreigners caught in the cross hairs of China's opaque legal system.
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American air wars are opaque by design, and we could pierce the veil only a few times.
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Many in the wine industry are notoriously opaque about their agriculture, their cellar techniques and their ingredients.
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As is typical in the highly opaque kingdom, the leadership offered no explanation for the abrupt changes.
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But a federal lawsuit challenging the administration says the waiver process is opaque and difficult to navigate.
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And some ensconce themselves behind opaque screens above the action, where they can bid without being seen.
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"But given opaque ownership structures and local partners, it's difficult to demonstrate the veracity of such claims."
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For the majority of people being discriminated against by opaque algorithms such a response is unheard of.
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But Maldacena's brute-force method of calculating the primordial particle dynamics was hard going and conceptually opaque.
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A floor box built of opaque honey-gold Plexiglas appears to have a dark form sealed inside.
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It typically keeps the schedules of high-ranking officials like Crown Prince Salman opaque for security purposes.
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Borrowers frequently complain about opaque, sloppy and bungled service from the companies hired to collect their payments.
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They are democratic and transparent in internal policies but usually dictatorial and opaque in their foreign policies.
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The "opaque nature of how these tools track people's movement and behavior is alarming," Schwarz told Recode.
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Op-Ed Contributor In the opaque world of Arab diplomacy, things are never quite as they seem.
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To meet them, they have been forced to buy paper credits in an opaque market, lifting costs.
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Combined, the regulations are a salvo against the often opaque and labyrinthine world of health care prices.
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The fluctuating value of life was a seemingly rational but conveniently opaque method for making political decisions.
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Hotwire has the same concept, though they offer "opaque pricing" that hides the name of the hotels.
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She personalized an opaque issue by drawing on her past trips to Afghanistan with the late Sen.
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The fragile structure functions as both sanctuary and prison, translucent on the outside but opaque from within.
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The opaque nature of the consulting business means it's difficult to know which firms are most influential.
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Soon the opaque, somewhat hapless Arthur is striving with his collaborators to arrive at their docudrama's narrative.
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But in the opaque, tightly guarded circles of Cuban politics, it is impossible to know for sure.
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"Sacred Deer" feels like a dark, opaque bit of folklore transplanted into an off-kilter modern setting.
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Alphonse Osbert's "Vision" (1892) and Henri Martin's "Young Saint" (1891), meanwhile, use short, opaque, almost Impressionist marks.
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He ceaselessly mocked the "theoryspeak of contemporary architecture," which still renders the profession opaque to most outsiders.
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There are certain aspects of Kavanaugh's confirmation process that may forever remain opaque to the American public.
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Tony confirms something I know to be true: It doesn't matter how I behave—like a wife, a mistress, dependent, independent, needy, stand-off-ish—parts of me will still remain opaque to the man before me, just as the women in Tony's life remain opaque to him.
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There's also a depth sensor and what appears to be an illuminator hidden behind the opaque front panel.
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Where it's harsh or stilted or opaque, or lyrical and flowing, or unambiguous, my writing should be too.
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As one might expect, the deeper shades provide opaque color while the lighter shades leave a sheer wash.
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It is possible the opaque Saudi system of governance will bring about a leadership transition at the top.
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Saturn's "B ring" has long been known as the brightest and most opaque (appearing black in this image).
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Dodd-Frank has largely made banks safer and the once-opaque derivatives market more transparent, banking executives said.
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The salon's entrance is an opaque revolving door, and the reception area separates customers from the male gaze.
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Analysts are likely to push executives for details on the complex tax issues and already opaque stress tests.
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Even where such processes remain somewhat opaque, technologists should seek indirect means of validating results and detecting harms.
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In effect, the supply chain is now an opaque and faulty process that is extremely hard to manage.
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The transparent egg white cooks into an opaque white layer filling up the holes, making the polka dots.
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Opaque algorithms and operations allow executives to dismiss the concerns of journalists and activists as unfounded or ignorant.
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I don't mean to be coy or opaque, but the answer is, paradoxically, entirely and not at all.
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The Taiwanese citizens walked down from a plane in mainland China, their heads covered in opaque black hoods.
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They are susceptible to the elements, especially wind and sunlight, which can shine through its semi-opaque surface.
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Those receiving health care are rarely those who pay for it, which helps providers be opaque about charges.
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Opaque and glowing, they are remarkable, and they exert an almost magnetic pull on one's sight and psyche.
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The rules of billing are so opaque and purposefully convoluted they may as well be completely made up.
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Most other deals fall right in the gray area middle and often the business model is very opaque.
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For close observers of China's opaque politics, the move — while hugely significant — does not come as a shock.
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The root causes are that Russia's market is not free, and the rules are opaque and enforced inconsistently.
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Even though prices are displayed, the volume of shares available and demand for them is becoming more opaque.
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Shame those "transparency" tools look so well designed to ensure Facebook's platform remains as shadily opaque as possible.
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In fact, they trick Baoyu into marrying another cousin, with the help of the traditional opaque bridal veil.
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Points are by nature relatively opaque and can vary from day-to-day in value on the dollar.
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TC: The office made a $20 million payout on Monday, but the release about it is very opaque.
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Despite (or perhaps because of) such frenzied attention, the case remains as opaque and stubbornly unsolved as ever.
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Again, like Huawei, ZTE's leadership remains relatively opaque, with Communist Party links that have never been fully explained.
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In interviews since her August 2015 separation from Rossdale, Stefani has remained opaque but pointed about the details.
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The waist doesn't roll, there are multiple inseam options for different heights, and the black was very opaque.
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The poll numbers did little to assuage Johnson's ire over the deal's opaque process and hefty financial incentives.
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He stacked clause upon clause in their sentences, constructing towering and often opaque chains of thought and feeling.
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But that decision can feel arbitrary and opaque to travelers who don't understand the vicissitudes of airline operations.
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The American Treasury described Mr Gertler's fortune as the result of "opaque and corrupt mining and oil deals".
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And that's really what all this opaque jargon about the FTC, edge providers, and privacy frameworks is about.
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And ultimate control over the opaque set of processes that make it work rest in one man's hands.
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CARACAS/BOGOTA (Reuters) - Even for Venezuela's notoriously opaque economy, it was a sweetheart deal that went too far.
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"The terms of those loans are opaque at best, and the benefits flow overwhelmingly to Beijing," Pence said.
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The cultural funding that is "accessible" is often bogged down by purposefully opaque application requirements or admissions criteria.
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Azimuth's distributor, a much more opaque company called Linchpin Labs, is run by ex-spies, three sources said.
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Add in an opaque, hype-filled market and a secretive investment class and you get an explosive mixture.
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Welcome to the opaque — and somewhat surprising — intersection of obesity and the North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiation.
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But the circumstances under which OECD and China's strategic stocks would be released to the market remain opaque.
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In recent months, Facebook has become infamous for using opaque methods to track almost everything you do online.
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We used Glassdoor data to take a look at the opaque world of Google contractor treatment and pay.
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Exactly how those decisions are made and whether or not they're fair, however, is often opaque or unknowable.
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These opaque algorithms with their singular purpose—"keep watching"—coupled with billions of users is a dangerous recipe.
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It also has the authority to grant Kim new titles or positions within North Korea's opaque leadership structure.
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All of the close-up scenes I had big thick opaque lenses in so I couldn't actually see.
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Using GoPro cameras, the filmmakers capture the fishermen's profession from an assortment of perspectives, both clear and opaque.
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And determining people's personal wealth is hardly an exact science — especially in an economy as opaque as China's.
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The artist consistently harnesses a strong opaque line to assert his own simple, but captivating, silhouettes and portraits.
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While some congressional Republicans have accused the FSB of being opaque and unaccountable, Quarles has defended the institution.
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But the prevalence of these opaque companies on Stand for Truth's report is widespread, campaign finance observers say.
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This dependence continues to expose our economy and national security to the volatile and opaque global oil market.
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But for everyone else, it's a jumble of elaborate names, garish CGI effects, and opaque, silly-sounding prophecy.
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The legal and financial framework around the country's mining sector is both opaque and tinged with political interference.
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Since 2007 they have been trying to track the African lending of China's notoriously opaque state-owned banks.
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Opaque ownership structures need to be cleared up so that European companies know whom they are dealing with.
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The opaque yellow of a ripe banana is the easiest to produce, and ultramarine blue is the hardest.
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In particular, though the shells of living forams are translucent, those fossilised in rocks are often chalkily opaque.
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Apple's system for choosing which ones to highlight on the front page of the store is similarly opaque.
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Recently, we caught a glimpse of the opaque world of TV ownership in the controversial Sinclair — Tribune merger.
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In the meantime, children are placed in an opaque and indifferent system regardless of their age or condition.
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People put value on it because of this opaque source of its existence — and because they want to.
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Today, public scepticism of people in power and feelings that opaque conspiratorial forces drive events have re-emerged.
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Like Warhol and his disciple Jeff Koons, Marisol was aloof and opaque, a master of the gnomic pronouncement.
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That's because social media feeds are increasingly determined by AI-driven algorithms that are opaque to average users.
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Firms are famously opaque because they are private partnerships, not public companies, and set their own pay levels.
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You'll find a store-exclusive bag, the Manhattan Olimpia, in opaque nappa leather and in shiny snakeskin ($189.503,2189.50).
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That, they say, leaves industry without clear answers and subjects consumers and lenders to opaque and undemocratic regulation.
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The Times is an opaque institution and these details are as delicious to read as they are rare.
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It appears really natural on my cheeks and lids, but it comes off as opaque on my lips.
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And the ascendancy of Mr. Xi, opaque even by the standards of party leaders, makes forecasts even harder.
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Edison Village's detractors argue that the approval process was opaque, leaving questions about the viability of the plan.
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Others, though, are much more opaque, with hard to track down owners, and advertisements on crime-focused websites.
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Investors closely watch the headline number, though some analysts say the way it is calculated is too opaque.
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Watch closely as they go from translucent to opaque, and touch them to make sure they're just firm.
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In the end, we both lost money because exchange rates are, at best, opaque and at worst rapacious.
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Since Kevin Durant left Oklahoma City, no player has been less opaque about these intentions than Russell Westbrook.
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In doing so, the show illuminates the notoriously opaque writings of Beckett without ever betraying their ineffable heart.
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Sponsors of the new bill claim it is necessary due to the opaque nature of Chinese supply chains.
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But as the effects, some overly opaque, keep coming, the suspense and rhythm of this collaboration fades, too.
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The inherent contradiction between Reddit's opaque policing methods and the core values of anarchism became obvious last week.
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The measure would allow the extradition of Hong Kong's residents and visitors to mainland China's opaque judicial system.
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What's more, the process even for seeking a waiver has remained opaque to the point of being inscrutable.
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Regulators are increasingly worried that Bitfinex, a widely used (and famously opaque) exchange, has been propping it up.
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Electric breast pumps are opaque and have plenty of nooks in which drugs or weapons could be stashed.
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How can one secure and track the movement of a jewel within a fragmented and opaque supply chain?
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Economists say health care markets are opaque and frustrate consumers who want to shop for the best value.
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In New York, there are plenty of people whose sources of income are, to put it charitably, opaque.
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Iranian exports have become more opaque since U.S. sanctions returned in November, making it harder to assess volumes.
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Now the S.E.C. is taking a look, and questions are being raised about the conglomerate's famously opaque accounting.
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China's opaque legal system is controlled by the Communist Party, and those charged are almost always found guilty.
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The reasons for placing particular artworks, by Jess or otherwise, in each themed room are a bit opaque.
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Even before that, researchers have long contended with a notoriously complex and often opaque thicket of access restrictions.
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Warm and coddled, it's shiny, opaque and about as runny as fresh cream, which it is, sort of.
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His skin was bronzed and glistening, his chest hairless, his expression opaque: stern, wary, perhaps a little confrontational.
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But the American health care system is uniquely fractured, opaque, and cruel in its approach to saying no.
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The changes respond to long-running bank complaints that the current stress-testing process is cumbersome and opaque.
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Some managers are unhappy about the guidelines, which pushed the previously opaque market into the spotlight, Choi said.
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One reason may be that it is fairly easy to form opaque shell companies in the United States.
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Companies can either generate them by using the renewable fuels or buy the RINs in an opaque market.
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By the 1980s DC Comics' bosses feared that their internal continuity had grown multifariously opaque to new readers.
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I have to say, the opaque, frosted Faustino I bottle with the Rembrandt label is kind of strange.
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Although a bit thick when first applied, it dries down to an opaque cream that doesn't feel heavy.
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Written and directed by the Irish filmmaker Alexandra McGuinness, "She's Missing" is slow and dreamy and frustratingly opaque.
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Before those deals foundered, American investors and regulators raised doubts about Anbang's opaque ownership and its financial strength.
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Despite the art world's progressive reputation, the networks of money and power that dominate it are vexingly opaque.
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Going clear Part of the widespread concern about Trump's business holdings is how sprawling and opaque they are.
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"It will prevent them from providing inferior-quality, opaque products that are very difficult to understand," Rostad said.
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The Supreme Court's decisions are sometimes opaque, and in this opinion, there is more than meets the eye.
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Instagram has also been criticized for its opaque verification policy, which has created a black market for verification.
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Horizon and Beacon's letters denying coverage, provided by O'Reilly, illustrate an opaque process with life-or-death stakes.
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He notes that that identity can be "inherently opaque" to AI systems making assessments based on outward appearances.
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Because its shares can't be traded publicly, A.S.R.C. is subject to few disclosure requirements and can seem opaque.
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And one particularly opaque federal program — the 340B drug discount program — is finally getting the attention it deserves.
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The "Amazon&aposs Choice" designation is driven by algorithms, Amazon has said, but the process is largely opaque.
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The "Amazon&aposs Choice" designation is driven by algorithms, Amazon has said, but the process is largely opaque.
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Elsewhere, he tended to use the medium as a ground for pictures completed in opaque watercolors or pastels.
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Critics say CPEC projects are opaque and expensive, and question Pakistan's ability to repay the costs over time.
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Jordan Peele's second feature is a more opaque and ambitious work than his smash hit debut Get Out.
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The low profile and opaque background of Chinese buyers is starting to raise questions among soccer's governing bodies.
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Opaque forces, corporate and governmental, are shaping the ability of individuals worldwide to exercise their freedom of expression.
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But an examination of the fund identified other pernicious forces: most notably, illiquid, opaque and high-cost investments.
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"Quest" offers the gift of imagining that you do, even as it honors their complicated, sometimes opaque individuality.
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They also argue that the current system is so opaque that the state doesn't have sufficient bargaining leverage.
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To me it was an astonishingly user-friendly tool that cut through opaque corporate bureaucracy on my behalf.
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Even before the crackdown, unbridled spending by the king's family, whose income sources remain opaque, had raised eyebrows.
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Proponents of the bloc's strict merger regime, however, argue such changes could lead to opaque and unpredictable rules.
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On the other hand, offering benefits through more opaque and income-reliant ways tends to dampen these effects.
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He would matriculate at Cambridge thanks to a borrowed (and no doubt opaque; it was in Cyrillic) transcript.
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But surely the digital revolution has brought some much-needed transparency to this most opaque of luxury businesses?
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Also known as "opaque couché," the drab hue of greenish brown has drawn endless comparisons to baby poop.
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In other words, even when the tech works, the data gathered can be opaque and prone to misinterpretation.
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In 2010, a scholarly book called Visions of Joanna Newsom dissected the then 28-year-old Newsom's opaque lyrics.
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This hydrating lipstick goes on super sheer and builds to a gorgeous opaque shade to give you every option.
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The limited series opens with a long, pretentious sequence and doesn't get appreciably better -- or less opaque -- from there.
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The department schedule page seems to confirm that information in a more opaque way, listing an 11:45 a.m.
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He's an LA-based artist known for making his own videos, which share Poppy's minimalist aesthetic and opaque scripts.
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The series, titled Hibernation II moves along a contrasting pattern of stoic, opaque land masses against hazy night sky.
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The results have improved from 2014, when four out of five think tanks were rated "opaque," the group said.
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Since it's not an opaque, punchy red, it's also easier to slick on without a lip brush or pencil.
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To make things worse, the system for financing regional governments is opaque and widely seen as unfair (see article).
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With season 2 premiering on April 22, we can expect a whole new batch of tantalizing, infuriatingly opaque twists.
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Merchandise produced with forced labor is also difficult to trace due to long, opaque supply chains, according to Smith.
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It is worth $252bn today and is controlled by an opaque partnership using legal vehicles in the Cayman Islands.
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Competition among private-sector firms, they say, often hinges on rights which the government allocates in an opaque manner.
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It was founded by former People's Liberation Army engineer Ren Zhengfei, and its private ownership structure is entirely opaque.
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It's frigid as hell inside your car and the windshield is totally opaque from all the foggy ass frost.
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Political funding in both countries is opaque, and the first-past-the-post system can produce conspicuously unfair results.
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By layer 10, you could see the wax creating a massive, opaque strip of honey goodness on his leg.
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The LipSense product itself is an opaque liquid lipstick, which is sealed into place with a gloss top coat.
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These are intended to speed the process of adopting new laws, but critics say they are opaque and undemocratic.
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The opaque PR in the past from each company on its ownership hasn't helped, nor has BBK's reclusive nature.
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It's like the Estée Lauder Double Wear, which I've been talking about recently because it's quite thick and opaque.
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To the uninitiated, though, "Dirk Gently" feels pretty near impenetrable -- an opaque fever dream that careens along almost drunkenly.
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Long queues are common at state hospitals and access to drugs is complicated by an opaque system of dispensation.
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It's still too opaque, [so consumers] want that human interaction, eventually, but they just wanted it on their terms.
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They demonstrated how, with the press of the button, they could turn these windows from clear to almost opaque.
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The delegate system, especially the seemingly opaque super delegate allocations and the Electoral College, are being called into question.
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For people who get confused by Facebook's opaque privacy settings, this means things could go very public, very quickly.
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They had to act with limited data and an opaque sense for how their actions would affect the future.
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For years, GE's long-term health care business was "an asterisk" on the company's "ridiculously opaque" financials, Cramer explained.
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But President Donald Trump's thoughts and plans on climate change are, like most of his thoughts and plans, opaque.
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Rystad Energy said government data across the world are collected using a range of metrics that are often opaque.
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It is aggressively un-visual, almost opaque, but you get the sense of unseen life teeming all around you.
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The assembly also has the authority to grant Kim new titles or positions within North Korea's opaque leadership structure.
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The activating liquid goes on again and the nail can be dipped multiple times for a more opaque color.
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People and employers pay insurance companies, which pay opaque aggregators known as pharmacy-benefit managers and preferred provider organisers.
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Merchant refiners that lack adequate blending capacity are forced to buy compliance credits in a thinly traded, opaque market.
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One method, the Von Luschan chromatic scale, invented 36 different categories by comparing skin color to opaque colored tiles.
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Is it just some sort of opaque mirror that lets us see what we want to see in it?
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"They" are the opaque, influential algorithms that determine what content billions of internet users read, watch, and share next.
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This practice carries with it poorly appreciated privacy risks and an opaque exchange of valuable data for very little.
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Many whose citizenship is under scrutiny are poor and illiterate, unprepared to deal with the tribunals' opaque legal process.
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When first pumped out, the formula is an opaque milky liquid, but quickly blends to a clear, undetectable finish.
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His finances are opaque, but he appears to have gotten a fair amount of Saudi money through his hotels.
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Next, she found Haptic Wonders , the results of blasts of light hitting photosensitive paper through arrangements of opaque materials.
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"It is all very opaque," a second trader in Shanghai at a Chinese bank said of U.S.-China negotiations.
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Trump attacked Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta for having an opaque business relationship with a Kremlin-backed investment firm.
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It's all part of an elaborate industry aimed at stopping a largely opaque phenomenon of online tracking: dynamic pricing.
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It's hard for individuals to find these kind of mistakes on their own because medical bills are pretty opaque.
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He studies everything around him, but his expression, his internal thoughts and feelings about it all, are completely opaque.
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Investment apps became popular with good reason — the confusing and opaque world of investing had changed little in decades.
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The question of what happens next in the wool market is complicated by its opaque nature, according to analysts.
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FSOC stage-two examinations, completed without a recommendation for a stage-three examination, are totally opaque to outside eyes.
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Much of governance in the current American system is opaque—especially in periods of divided government, but not exclusively.
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Stada, a German maker of generic drugs based near Frankfurt, had low revenues, high running costs and opaque accounting.
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This is hilariously opaque and obviously intended to obfuscate—but it doesn't even do a good job at that.
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Market data charges have become more complex and fund industry representatives say prices have risen and become more opaque.
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" Rolling Stone writes that the former Pavement frontman finds himself "gesturing towards a kind of tastefully opaque midlife realism.
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The designer said there will be entertainment systems on board and materials that can turn opaque and then transparent.
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To his critics, such connections either are opaque or come at a cost that betrays the school's founding mission.
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Level 3 assets are securities that because they are so opaque and complex trade very rarely, if at all.
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So plain polyethylene won't work, but Cui's team proved that a different, opaque form can still keep us cool.
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Under new management, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has grown slightly less opaque: it now publishes monthly financial reports.
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The calculations behind the 450,000 jobs—supposedly 250,000 in construction and 200,000 in the supply chain—remain somewhat opaque.
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They can take several minutes to change color, and current designs also cannot darken to a fully opaque shade.
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Thom Browne and Versus Versace And at these shows, opaque cream pigments were applied for shocks of pure color.
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The toilet and shower are both separate through opaque walls and doors that are stylish, but not totally private.
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But her personal views on such issues as the morality and effectiveness of brutal interrogation methods have remained opaque.
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While police departments sometimes bring disciplinary proceedings against officers for excessive force, the process can be protracted or opaque.
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Corruption, inconsistent government regulation and an opaque legal system, these residents argue, are threatening to ruin a Mexican paradise.
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Like the other Ring products, the security cam is dinged by Mozilla for opaque policies around privacy and security.
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"Researchers face really significant challenges understanding where there's algorithmic bias because so many of them are opaque," West said.
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Whether it's a ruddy brown, a cool greige, or a deep wine — the deeper and more opaque, the better.
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Its $82.75-a-share offer is all cash, but the company is privately held so its finances are opaque.
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Next, she found Haptic Wonders , the results of blasts of light hitting photosensitive paper through arrangements of opaque materials.
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The prose in 'The Mirror and The Light' is a little less opaque, its nuances a little less subtle.
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Those delays, and the dam's generally opaque finances, have become matters of considerable speculation in Ethiopia in recent weeks.
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But near the breaks, the toothbrush is opaque, as if a cloud of white flowers had bloomed inside it.
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"The process used to appoint Supreme Court justices is opaque, outdated, and in need of an overhaul," Trudeau wrote.
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The result is a market that can be opaque, with consumers frequently shocked at the prices of their care.
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Advocates for a second referendum say that during the 2016 referendum, the consequences and realities of Brexit were opaque.
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To counter claims that it is opaque and secretive, Huawei recently reported quarterly financial results for the first time.
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Mr. López Obrador handed responsibility for the new airport to Mexico's military, one of the country's most opaque institutions.
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He "set the performance targets substantially by himself" and "succeeded in making certain administrative departments opaque," the report said.
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The leggings were supportive, didn't ride up, and provided opaque coverage throughout our errands, workouts, and life in general.
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Federal Reserve chiefs were long known for saying little, and making what they did say as opaque as possible.
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"If you keep putting dye where there's already color, your hair will look opaque and less natural," Jaxcee said.
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The inquiry has been so opaque that it is impossible to assess what stage it has reached over all.
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After a particularly luminous weekend, thousands of people began talking about the opaque, jewel-toned water on social media.
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For Katz, it's the continuation of a longstanding mission to create transparency for data sets that were previously opaque.
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Companies that are opaque about their supply chain, I try not to buy from them as much as possible.
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"I have never seen a nominee with such tangled and opaque finances," complained Democratic Senator Patty Murray of Washington.
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Let's start by recognizing just how complicated and opaque it is — and how many myths pervade the public discourse.
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Because the opaque interagency process underpinning CFIUS cannot keep up, it can, and usually does, opt for automatic extensions.
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TikTok supports longer videos and is less reliant on a simple follower model, instead employing assertive and opaque recommendations.
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Meanwhile, Apple has a reputation among developers for blocking or removing apps without explanation or with only opaque commentary.
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Standing there in the shadow of that opaque, reflective tower, I didn't know exactly what I hoped to accomplish.
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Hearts and minds can be as opaque as a rain forest; only small pieces of them are ever visible.
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Before that revelation, space was really an opaque market, making it difficult for potential competitors to price their products.
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His artwork, much of it in gouache, a thicker, more opaque form of watercolor, was featured in numerous exhibitions.
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The now-withdrawn legislation raised the spectre of suspects being whisked across the border and into China's opaque courts.
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It's part of a multilayered effort to funnel Facebook users toward opaque debt-relief firms, says Vice's David Uberti.
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The opaque system of manufacturing and distribution hampers criminal investigations and leaves victims of spiked products with little recourse.
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But when regulators ignored their growth, they became more opaque and more profitable, with credit ratings disconnected from reality.
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The problem is, algorithms are everywhere, making decisions on our behalf in ways that are often opaque to us.
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In our non-unionized status quo, getting a significant raise without moving into management was already difficult and opaque.
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The move shed light on an opaque corner of finance that was at the heart of last year's crisis.
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But the underlying atomic processes that dictate whether snow crystals will be shaped like stars or columns remained opaque.
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It used opaque accounting methods that made it hard for investors to judge how well acquired companies were doing.
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Measuring this outside support is difficult, though, because many European countries have leaky, opaque accountability systems on campaign finance.
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These private placements, as they are known, are often opaque transactions, open only to certain high net-worth investors.
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Many of the most powerful are bafflingly opaque; others evade understanding because they involve an avalanche of statistical probability.
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And in some of the show's most potent entries the line between aesthetics and politics was left strategically opaque.
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Hulu's Fyre Fraud, in contrast, is oddly opaque about McFarland's appeal, even though McFarland himself appears in the film.
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So basically it becomes opaque to anybody who also is on that network or anybody along the chain, right?
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