It refuses to ascribe to Iran s secretive state an ideological rigidity that might not exist.

Though notoriously secretive, the operation is far removed from the Church s more sensitive, doctrinal core.

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

Until the recent opening, Myanmar, which gained independence in 1948, had been ruled by a secretive military junta since 1962.

The public Madrid talks failed to bring about any breakthroughs, whereas the much more secretive Oslo channel brought about the PLO Israel agreement.

It is a demonstration of modernity and equality that even the secretive Chinese and North Korean leadership appear to have learned of late.

In literary terms, this conspiracy theory closely resembles The Protocols of the Elders of Zion , featuring secretive global elite with great power and wicked aims.

The contract, awarded again to a secretive American firm, will keep US planes flying over Afghanistan, which is the paramount American goal in the region.

This is perhaps unsurprising given the secretive nature of the illegal drug trade, and the Team accepts the expert judgements that the Taliban benefit from drug revenues.

Connections with the Pentagon and lobbyists in Washington are described by critics as more important than actual competition, due to the political and secretive nature of defense contracts.

The active power that information provides is typically the threat of exposure. Such information gives you power primarily in a secretive, opaque world where access to information is limited.

Every time North Korea acts provocatively testing nuclear bombs, launching missiles, touting its secretive uranium enrichment facilities, and killing South Korean soldiers and civilians China comes under diplomatic fire.

There would be fewer informal systems, and those remaining would have to be less secretive to compete for business with regulated remittance service providers, so allowing more scrutiny by authorities.

An independent committee of experts convened by the World Health Organization found that the tobacco industry used creative, secretive, and effective tactics to divert the WHO s focus from NCDs for years.

But there may be a lesson from a country whose wartime rulers, quarrelling among themselves, inflicted unimaginable harm on their people and to the world with their mendacious, secretive, and paranoid style.

Afghanistan Watch reviews a New York Times report, in which it is said that the secretive American detention center at Bagram base in Afghanistan now holds more than twice as many prisoners as Guantanamo Bay.

The Saudi Cables lift the lid on a increasingly erratic and secretive dictatorship that has not only celebrated its 100th beheading this year, but which has also become a menace to its neighbours and itself.

The reports have not been confirmed, but her name was missing from the list of attendees at a recent Supreme People s Assembly. In secretive North Korea, that seems to be a clear sign that something is afoot.

Facebook inadvertently raised this issue of emotional manipulation and unintended consequences indirectly and in one context, by being secretive about its research and not giving people the chance to opt out beforehand. (Now, that would have been a smart choice!)

In fact, there are five jobs up for grabs, so a complex but secretive discussion is being conducted between Europe s chancelleries over who might do what without disturbing the delicate balances between political families or between large and small states.

Kurt Diebner (13 May 1905 13 July 1964) was a German nuclear physicist who is well known for directing and administrating the German nuclear energy project, a secretive program aiming to build nuclear weapons for Nazi Germany during the course of World War II.

Loretta Napoleoni details her rare opportunity to talk to the secretive Italian Red Brigades an experience that sparked a lifelong interest in terrorism. She gives a behind the scenes look at its complex economics, revealing a surprising connection between money laundering and the US Patriot Act.