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Disguise in sentence

257 examples of Disguise in a sentence

After Ixtoc, the blow to the Mexican fisheries became a blessing in disguise.
In Brazil, in particular, spending was out of control, even if Rousseff’s government managed to disguise it for a while.
(It is, incidentally, the methods used to disguise it that now have Rousseff in trouble.)
Coordination of economic policies is, in reality, a disguise for increasing the powers of the Commission and of the Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs.
A weak euro may be a blessing in disguise.
These accounts should be frozen, despite the difficulty in doing so in a world rife with secret banking and nominee accounts that disguise true ownership.
Back then, financial-market participants had to devise fantastic schemes and contortions to disguise interest payments.
In East Asia, North Korea withdrew from the NPT after using it to disguise its weapons program, and China, America, Japan, Russia, and South Korea are trying to persuade Kim Jong Il’s regime to reverse course.
Moreover, in an economy open to trade and direct investment, both inward and outward, there are multiple opportunities to disguise short-term flows of financial capital as current-account and long-term-investment operations.
Even the fact that her center-right Christian Democratic Union fell short of an absolute parliamentary majority is a blessing in disguise.
Many (if not most) developing countries are becoming service economies without having developed a large manufacturing sector – a process I have called “premature de-industrialization.”Could premature de-industrialization be a blessing in disguise, enabling workers in the developing world to bypass the drudgery of manufacturing?
The process picked up momentum late last year, after hackers leaked thousands of e-mails from a top British research facility showing that some of the world’s most influential climatologists had been trying to disguise flaws in their work, blocking scrutiny, and plotting together to enforce what amounts to a party line on climate change.
Performance enhancing drugs disguise natural abilities and substitute for the dedication and focus that we admire.
Therein may lie a blessing in disguise, but the curses are more obvious.
Trump has done very little to address the fears of those who feel left behind, but he is attempting a classic bait-and-switch to disguise this fact.
But there is one potential obstacle that could turn out to be a blessing in disguise: the diverse demographic shifts that will take place in the coming years.
Whereas politics allows for fudges and compromises to disguise such tradeoffs, computer code requires clarity.
As in 1978 and 1992, British obstructionism today may be a blessing in disguise for the rest of Europe.
The powerful European Court of Justice (ECJ), in particular, has frequently been criticized for using European law to disguise an integrationist agenda.
Many in the Canadian energy sector will follow Trudeau’s climate agenda with trepidation; but his push for environmental reform may turn out to be a blessing in disguise for the country’s energy companies.
For example, in his 2004 book Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb said of economic sciences: “You can disguise charlatanism under the weight of equations, and nobody can catch you since there is no such thing as a controlled experiment.”
Turkey's seeming fall from grace with the US may turn out to be a blessing in disguise.
It finally jumped back up to 40% in 2016, propelled by the removal of distortionary price subsidies that had previously been used to disguise the true inflation rate.
Thus, some leaders view democratization efforts as a new form of colonialism or imperialism in disguise.
Naturally, Merkel offered just enough to allow Macron to disguise his humiliation as a personal triumph.
Foreign investors and EU politicians may not see through Medvedev’s benign disguise – or may choose not to.
Hence, the WTO ruling, at least in this case, may be a blessing in disguise.
If they succeed, the death of the two-state solution might prove to be a blessing in disguise.
Financial wizardry cannot disguise that, while throwing a bigger lifeline risks dragging everyone down.
Invoking Generalissimo Francisco Franco’s long dictatorship – now four decades in the past – is a feeble attempt to disguise the separatists’ economic pretensions and overblown sense of cultural superiority.
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