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Children gathered like ants to spilled sugar, jumping off ledges and diving into its murky depths with screams and whoops of excitement.
Whereas “The West Wing,” a popular political drama that ran from 1999 to 2006, portrays the US presidency – held by a sophisticated, cultivated, and humanistic leader – with a kind of longing, “House of Cards” immerses the viewer in a murky milieu of humanity’s worst impulses.
Second, the G20 must commit to fighting tax evasion and to unraveling the murky system of tax havens and shell companies (brought to light earlier this year by the Panama Papers) used to pump money out of Africa.
Ever since these pipelines were effectively handed over to nominally private companies in murky deals, earnings from transit fees have gone missing, along with vast amounts of gas, while little maintenance has been carried out.
In the murky world of the Internet, attackers are difficult to identify.
Unless we do that better, fewer people will vote for MEPs, more of them will be elected simply on a protest vote and represent Europe’s murky extremes, and the whole practice and principle of European democracy will be discredited.
Recalling what transpired under Reagan might shed some light on the Republicans’ murky current proposals.
The immediate macroeconomic picture remains somewhat murky.
Popular dissatisfaction partly reflects a phenomenon that invariably arose in numerous conversations with academics, intellectuals, and top officials: the murky frontier of legality currently reigning in China.
Moreover, the value of toxic assets remains as murky as ever.
We confront not a lone tree of iniquity, but rather a vast forest of murky words, dangerous and lunatic in their debasement.
Indeed, the US right wing routinely criticizes him for having drawn a line in the sand for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over chemical weapons, and then backing off when Assad allegedly crossed it (the issue remains murky and disputed, like so much else in Syria).
Is it worth fighting for a world that cannot be saved, and that only invites murky, inconclusive entanglements?
In the murky atmosphere surrounding Khodorkovsky's case, it is impossible to discover which theory is true.
Either way, we leave the realms of policies, and even of politics, and enter the murky domain of symbols and myth.
The terms of this lending are so murky that only China has information about the volume, maturity, and cost of outstanding loans, which are issued on a bilateral basis, often for political or strategic reasons.
We should toast the likely successes: some form of financial-product safety commission will be established; more derivative trading will move to exchanges and clearing houses from the shadows of the murky “bespoke” market; and some of the worst mortgage practices will be restricted.
The entire operation is run by a close-knit group of men (women play no part in this murky business), all of whom are beholden to the boss.
China would also have drawn comfort from the fact that, within the murky world of intra-Tibetan politics, its anointed Karmapa, oddly, had the Dalai Lama’s backing.
But when they are not, the consequences of privatization are murky.
But search alone doesn’t work, either: search is like a flashlight in a dark room; it pinpoints one or two things but leaves the surrounding space murky.
Decisions emerged from murky negotiations and hidden rivalries between bureaucrats, imperial courtiers, politicians, and military officials, often pushed this way or that by various domestic and foreign pressures, some of them violent.
The post-war political order, though no longer belligerent, was just as murky, with bureaucrats acting as the puppeteers of underfunded and ill-informed politicians, who operated regional pork-barrel operations together with big business, which in turn worked in cahoots with the bureaucrats.
If Japan’s relatively inexperienced government is blamed for everything that goes wrong, people might wish to retreat to the old ways of murky paternalism.
When the bubbles burst and pushed unbalanced economies into balance-sheet recessions, inflation-targeting central banks were already low on ammunition – taking them quickly into the murky realm of zero policy rates and the liquidity injections of quantitative easing.
Webs of intrigue and murky players obscure details, but the priorities are unmistakeable.
Within Ukraine, a government capable of truly governing should seek to adopt EU laws and norms in exactly the manner that the countries poised to join the Union have done, thus helping to clean up the murky system in which Kuchma's criminal cronies flourish.
The great value of international criminal tribunals and internationally-created hybrid tribunals is that they create a clear public record of events that are almost by definition murky and contested.
Boris Berezovsky, Boris Yeltsin’s trusted oligarch-henchman with his own murky reputation, similarly underestimated a would-be autocrat.
Asian countries need to clarify the region’s increasingly murky hydropolitics.
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