All four North African rulers have, to greater or lesser degrees, made themselves the center of highly opaque power structures.

Here's the eye with the opaque lens, the opaque lens extracted and an acrylic lens inserted.

Third, we need better supervision and regulation of the financial system, including regulation of opaque or highly leveraged financial institutions such as hedge funds and even sovereign wealth funds.

There are variety of industrial and scientific applications where noncontact flow measurement through opaque walls or in opaque liquids is desirable.

Public sector employment in Kenya is notoriously opaque.

The unorthodox techniques, however, are less nimble and more opaque.

It's why barware is glamorous. Glamour is translucent not transparent, not opaque.

He was opaque and playfully cryptic, already a little paranoid perhaps justifiably so.

However, opaque solutions designed to avoid critical public scrutiny do not seem particularly democratic.

We had two opaque boxes one with government approved THC marijuana, and one with nothing.

Indeed, even in the opaque terms of contemporary politics, the German case is particularly vexing.

Finance has always been opaque, quite apart from the motive of swindling the investing public.

Such information gives you power primarily in a secretive, opaque world where access to information is limited.

Today, the systems by which most services are provided have become almost completely opaque to their users.

But such institutions are largely perceived as inaccessible, inefficient, and opaque, leading national governments to neglect them.

Such Westerners are now often just as enamored of China s paternalistic and equally opaque and impenetrable political system.

The fundamental question today is who monitors opaque loans, whether of the sub prime or any other variety.

Rampant corruption, crackdown on civil society, opaque judicial system, no free speech, impunity you know what Egypt needs?

But if they grow too large while their activities remain opaque, widespread financial protectionism will become all but inevitable.

Indeed, this financial repression tax on domestic savers remains a huge opaque source of funding for India s debt ridden government.

As long as Gazprom remains opaque, Europe cannot know whether its key supplier is spending enough to develop future reserves.

A second high contrast copy is then made from the first, rendering the backing clear and the foreground opaque (fig.

The US lacks investment in infrastructure and has excess investment in financial derivatives the result of opaque leverage from over consumption.

HONG KONG The proliferation of China s opaque, loosely regulated (or unregulated) shadow banking system has been raising fears of possible financial instability.

upon highly honored pages ,

That is highly debatable.

It is highly dangerous.

These differences were highly significant.

Unfortunately, that is highly unlikely.

World trade is highly imbalanced.

Cigarettes are also highly addictive.

Immunization is also highly effective.

This, however, is highly unlikely.

The Department was highly decentralized.

Moreover, it is highly dangerous.

All of that was grammar school stuff compared to efforts to decipher the regime in North Korea, where the truth is far more opaque.

To be sure, even open democracies have their share of opaque jockeying and deal making in what used to be called smoke filled rooms.

So, as disputes with the West come to a head, it is important to recognize the power shifts underway inside Iran s opaque political system.

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speak and write English fluently, and be highly proficient in at least one other language polyglot speakers highly desirable!

Sami was highly concerned about punctuality.

All three reasons are highly regrettable.

It will exacerbate highly unequal competition.

Today s employers want highly skilled workers.

We highly appreciate all those endeavours.