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It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy Agency, played hide-and-seek with the international community, and rejected all offers of cooperation from the United States, the European Union, and others.
The “failure” could not be concealed, so it was quickly admitted.
Some of WikiLeaks’ releases of sensitive material have been perfectly defensible on classic freedom-of-information grounds, exposing abuses that might otherwise have remained concealed.
The first-past-the-post electoral system concealed the exodus of numerous Malay voters from the UMNO-led coalition to the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS).
Portions of Iran’s nuclear program may be too heavily bunkered, dispersed, or concealed.
In Greece, the problem is with sovereign deficits (much of it long concealed), while the problem in Asia was unmonitored private-sector debt.
And, yes, Hamas deliberately chooses to place its military arsenal in highly populated areas under the involuntary protective shield of innocent civilians – or those Israeli officials sometimes refer to, with barely concealed mistrust, as the “uninvolved.”
However, this was a deeply concealed state secret.
And, in Serbia’s case, this question remains open regarding Kosovo and – in a more concealed way – Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Leonid Brezhnev concealed his wife, Viktoria, from public view throughout the 1970’s, and Yuri Andropov’s wife, Tatyana Filipovna, was scarcely known until his funeral in 1984.
The top priority for the European Union at the beginning of the twenty first century must be the historic project concealed beneath the rather boring label of ‘enlargement’.
The study concludes that men may be more likely to engage in assertive and violent forms of manipulation, while women may resort to covert, restrained, and concealed deceptive tactics, such as rumors and gossiping.
Such plans, however, are by no means foolproof – not least owing to the difficulties of finding concealed nuclear assets and safeguarding reactors.
Lacking convictions, he could be everything to everybody from new left to center with any socialist taint concealed by the industrialist-advisors who lent Schroeder a Blairite and Clintonian veneer.
The bigger story has been concealed, as ever, by the media’s daily preoccupation with current bloodshed: Over the last two decades, major wars and episodes of mass violence worldwide have become much less frequent and deadly.
An investigation in 2002 revealed that TEPCO had submitted false data to the government, concealed accidents, and literally hid cracks.
The agenda appears straightforward, but “Paris III” has acquired a barely concealed political purpose: to bolster the government of Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora in the face of a powerful domestic challenge led by Hezbollah, and by extension to curb the influence of Hezbollah’s regional backers, Syria and Iran.
Three Ways to Save the EurozoneBRUSSELS – Since the summer, the continuing installments of the Greek crisis have concealed a worrying process of fragmentation in the eurozone.
As a result, the US showed little patience with Japan on the question of Okinawa, and has barely concealed its contempt for the DPJ government, feeding popular disappointment with its performance so far.
For eighteen years, Iran’s government concealed these activities from the IAEA, in clear violation of its safeguards agreement.
Until the global financial/economic crisis that began in 2008, however, strong export performance concealed China’s overcapacity problem, which, thanks to the stimulus package, is now set to become more serious.
Traditionally, banks were “black boxes,” in which operations were concealed from customers.
Both technologies would bolster the North’s ability to launch a surprise attack, by making its nuclear arsenal more durable, mobile, and easily concealed.
He concealed information about his military past when the election campaign started, and is now under investigation for alleged human rights violations.
And some women’s rights advocates have supported laws that criminalize transmitting HIV, arguing that these laws would punish men who concealed their HIV-positive status from their sexual partners, including their wives and girlfriends.
Suddenly, bigotry became respectable, and animosity toward Muslims, previously concealed under a veneer of civility, became an electoral asset.
Here, the trick was getting throughthe obstacle course with the meat concealed under your clothes: a challenging task, given raw meat’s tendency to drip.
The Beirut blast’s silver lining may be that it averts – or at least forestalls – such a conflict, in which Israel would destroy Lebanon’s infrastructure to neutralize the 150,000 missiles that Hezbollah has concealed among the civilian population before they devastate Israel’s vulnerable home front.
As right-wing populists with a deep suspicion of minorities and a barely concealed bias against Muslims, Trump and Modi have developed something of a “bromance.”
Their apparent strength concealed internal weakness.
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