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This is not to say that the liberal world order is an entirely obscure concept.
But Macron’s affability and bonhomie cannot obscure the fact that the two countries are operating under very different circumstances than in the past, much less ensure any semblance of reliability from the Trump administration.
But this should not obscure the progress that has been made; compared to 2009, when Obama took office, Myanmar and its politics are unrecognizable.
One critic, in the Bucharest review "Luceafarul" saw the essay as part of a huge American conspiracy to obscure the guilt of the US toward Native Americans, blacks, and the Vietnamese by focusing attention on Europe and its great guilt: the Holocaust.
Fuzzy, feel-good projects to foster human rights and good governance in an obscure region next-door must wait.
With quantitative easing having driven interest rates to record lows, one explanation is that this is just another, more obscure manifestation of investors’ search for yield.
I will not dwell on the details of this trove of obscure articles, which, for the most part, I had not seen before.
And yet happiness about the headline numbers should not be allowed to obscure opportunities to channel these funds more effectively.
According to this view, negotiators must obscure their real plans or intentions, as they work to seize a dominant position and, ultimately, to vanquish their foes.
But there remain significant obstacles to such cooperation – not least the North’s obscure and often-unpredictable politics, exemplified by the recent execution of its leader Kim Jong-un’s once-powerful uncle, Jang Song-thaek.
Snowden did not create the security-privacy dilemma, but he did illuminate a deeply rooted problem that Western leaders have long tried to obscure.
This obscure left-wing publication is the first known reference to globalization in its contemporary sense.
PARIS -- Some academic works, for reasons that are at least partly obscure, leave a persistent trace in intellectual history.
The fact that some financial crises are triggered by self-fulfilling pessimism should not obscure the reality that others are caused by inadequate policies.
Russia’s vast territory continually seems to obscure for its leaders the need to plan for the future, while its seemingly infinite supply of natural resources convinces them that the country can handle any contingency.
One major roadblock that Leung fails to appreciate is caused by an obscure 1981 UK Privy Council ruling, Hang Wah Chong Investment Co.Ltd v. Attorney General of Hong Kong, which gave the government unlimited authority to behave as a revenue-maximizing private monopolist.
With Donald Trump’s presidency and a Republican-controlled Congress, the SEC rule was immediately vacated under the Congressional Review Act, an obscure law that had been used only once before.
But at least a country's fiscal actions should not be hidden in its budgets' obscure methodological footnotes.
Like many others in Russia who are allowed to enjoy their wealth in peace today (or maybe are lamenting its loss due to the financial crisis), he made his money in thoroughly obscure ways during the early post-Soviet years.
Labor in a World of Financial CapitalismThe traditional hostility between labor unions and the world of finance should not obscure their common interest in using financial tools in an expansive and creative way.
The politics of the US Senate should not obscure the larger point: America has acted irresponsibly since signing the climate treaty in 1992.
We should not allow the many exceptions or temporary financial-market worries to obscure this underlying reality.
But this should not obscure the fact that Brazil’s fiscal situation is unsustainable.
The IAEA’s optimistic rhetoric cannot obscure fundamental arithmetic: skyrocketing maintenance expenses and, in many cases, post-Fukushima upgrade costs, together with the impossibility of building competitive new capacity without massive government subsidies, are devastating the nuclear industry.
Perhaps most critically, countries such as Austria, where members of the Yanukovych clique have created obscure companies to hide their ill-gotten assets, can stop turning a blind eye to the plundering of countries like Ukraine.
Secondly, frictional losses in the short term often obscure the fact that, in the long term, inputs from cheap suppliers may help secure jobs in the West, and that greater specialization increases exports as well as imports and offers gains in wealth for both trading partners.
Like its denials last year about deploying Chinese troops in Pakistani-held Kashmir to build strategic projects, China has demonstrated a troubling propensity to obscure the truth.
The encounter between the images of today’s Middle East and the discontent of Muslim minorities (sometimes influenced by radical fundamentalist ideologies) should not be allowed to obscure traditional French anti-Semitism, white and bourgeois, which still lingers and is never far beneath the surface.
But those problems should not be allowed to obscure the continent’s many success stories – much less to be defined as Africa’s alone.
The conflict between the two visions of reform should not obscure the fact that there is a general consensus in Egypt: substantial reform of some kind is necessary and long overdue.
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