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Moreover, the yearly samples can obscure key trends.
That may be true, but it should not be permitted to obscure the underlying structural problem that the world economy is facing.
Links to obscure websites with uncensored news about the catastrophe could even be found on the government newspaper's official website, People's Daily.
As was true of religious zealotry in the past, the ideology of human rights is being invoked to defend or obscure the oppression of others.
But the Assad regime’s efforts to consolidate the support of Christian and secular elites by blaming foreign radical groups for fueling the opposition cannot obscure the fact that conservative Sunnis are in full revolt.
Neither alternative is particularly charming, which would explain why he preferred to obscure his country’s position.
The focus on new areas of deep integration should not obscure the old-fashioned free-trade benefits that are also part of the TPP: reducing thousands of existing tariff and non-tariff barriers.
But the arcane details of that process must not be allowed to obscure the reality that the world is facing a serious humanitarian crisis.
As a colleague of mine likes to put it, one good school-lunch program could be enough to obscure the biological effects.
Even as the Internet and services such as Watsi make the world seem smaller, they can obscure the reality of what is driving global developments.
For reasons that are now obscure, there is an unwritten rule that Commission presidents must be drawn from the ranks of past or current prime ministers.
The upshot of this marriage of convenience has brought an obscure former KGB officer, a strongman whose activities gave rise to rumors of illegal enrichment and shady real estate deals, reportedly hushed and covered up in Yeltsin's Russia, to the summit of power.
As things stand, the chances seem high that the May 2019 election will end in a series of obscure, highly tactical fights.
The continuing failure of the post-colonial state, the threat posed by transnational armed groups, and the weakness of regional organizations obscure the nonchalance of major powers that now land troops with only a vague idea about what to do the morning after.
Yet the EU’s strategy towards Ukraine has been ambiguous and obscure.
One seemingly obscure political move last month – the appointment of Jang Sung-taek (Kim Kyong-hui’s husband) as the chairman of the State Physical Culture and Sports Guidance Commission – suggests that Kim Kyong-hui’s ill health is already having an impact on the regime.
But, although freeing a few people who were unjustly imprisoned for long periods is significant, it should not obscure the Russian government’s ongoing major human-rights violations at home and abroad.
I’ve been awarded the Nobel Prize for something I seem to have said, or done, or thought, in 1934!”Discoveries can come from unforeseen directions, as seemingly unrelated and obscure research areas intersect unexpectedly.
Their ultra-conservative professors applaud these rants, and although they pay lip service to liberal ideas, they speak less about John Stuart Mill than about obscure 19th century German conservatives.
No amount of discussion over trade can obscure the true issues of vital concern between China and India.
It is also true that aggregate economic data can and do obscure more localized problems.
While there is no shortage of challenges facing economies and societies today, they should not be allowed to obscure positive long-term trends.
But this narrative should not be allowed to obscure the paramount importance of smart and innovative regulations to support such progress.
At the same time, these objectives, while pressing, should not obscure the need to focus on yields – increases in which have accounted for three-quarters of food-production growth in recent decades.
Khanna, for example – presumably drawing upon the recent writing of Edward Luttwak – urges Americans to learn from the Byzantine Empire in crafting complex and obscure alliances among large and small states and non-state entities, so that diplomacy comes to resemble something like the global derivatives market.
This is the scientific equivalent of art for art's sake, but getting policy recommendations on an obscure and complex technical question from groups of citizen nonexperts (who are recruited by newspaper ads) is considerably more dangerous.
Then they freed themselves of all but the lightest contact with their political masters: they became independent technocrats, a monetary priesthood that spoke in Delphic terms obscure to mere mortals.
Nonetheless, the ESS’s soft-power vision should not be allowed to obscure the security challenges that Europe faces.
But such efforts cannot obscure the clash between these two histories, reflected perhaps most clearly in the divide between conservatives and liberals on condemning Stalinist repression.
Either the target was openly flouted, as it was in leading economies like Germany and France, or the data were manipulated to obscure problems (a common practice throughout the eurozone, not just in Greece).
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