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35 examples of Opacity in a sentence

I think we can make progress if we have a more pragmatic approach to these questions and we have the proper sanctions on those who benefit from financial opacity.
We printed its surface out of 44 different properties, varying in rigidity, opacity and color, corresponding to pressure points on the human body.
But lead white's density, opacity, and warm tone were irresistible to artists like Vermeer, and later, the Impressionists.
We have to face and try to deal with the lack of transparency created by the proprietary algorithms, the structural challenge of machine learning's opacity, all this indiscriminate data that's being collected about us.
In fact, a couple of years ago, the Russian search-engine company Yandex (I’m on its board), took out an ad gently poking fun at Russia’s old regime of opacity.
Similarly, regulatory opacity – and, more broadly, uncertainty about the direction of economic policy – has discouraged investment.
India and Pakistan, unlike Israel, which has been committed to a strategy of nuclear opacity, both see themselves as nuclear states and want the world to accept that status.
The stunning opacity of solvency ratios encouraged regulators to turn a blind eye to banks’ excessive risk-taking.
Meanwhile, the opacity of capital indicators has made market discipline impossible to impose.
Given the opacity surrounding admission to these highly selective institutions (where the acceptance rate typically is as low as around 8%), it is impossible to tell whether princelings get in on the basis of merit or family background.
Over-the-counter trading also contributes to the opacity of derivatives markets, further reducing competition and increasing the margin enjoyed by the traders – and the prices that final users (mostly industrial firms) must pay.
But the worst air quality is in winter, when polluted air meets winter fog and is trapped, giving Delhi a grayish opacity that reduces visibility, delays flights, and reduces the city’s traffic to an even more polluting crawl.
Many of the agitators’ bugbears are indeed worthy of criticism: the European Union’s opacity, the duplicitousness and greed of Wall Street bankers, the reluctance to tackle problems caused by mass immigration, the lack of concern for those hurt by economic globalization.
To be sure, the CCP’s opacity, secrecy, and penchant for untruth always implied a credibility problem.
Given the opacity of banks’ exposures, creditors would be unable to discriminate between the solvent and the insolvent (as was the case in September 2008).
In fact, these elections will be characterized by opacity and the absence of any real democratic process.
This ambivalence can largely be explained by Western and Arab concern with the weakness and opacity of the Syrian opposition’s political leadership.
Given Gazprom’s record of opacity while Medvedev’s was in charge, the existence of kompromat (compromising material), used as blackmail against him to keep his energy policy in line and others’ vested interests safe, is highly likely.
Economic management suffers from similar opacity.
Meanwhile, Israel’s genuine, if arguably exaggerated, existential anxiety helps to explain its strategy of nuclear opacity.
The conflict and opacity surrounding the case are telling signs of the country’s political fragility since Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi’s demise.
This opacity means that no one knows who is holding what, which saps confidence.
In general, however, opacity is a defining feature of most SWFs, exacerbating the risks that they pose.
The opacity of the Crown Property Bureau, worth an estimated $30 billion, eventually will have to be addressed.
This opacity, which was hardly unique to the US, created the sense that the world was close to another Great Depression when it really wasn’t.
Opacity has grown with complexity.
In a similar fashion, MENA governments today operate with strategic opacity.
If the agencies are rebuffed, the opacity of such practices should be reflected in their ratings.
A common suspicion is that China uses this opacity to strike bilateral deals with debtor governments that are at its mercy.
But despite the opacity of the appointment process, and although she was chosen in part because she is a woman, French, and from the center-right European People’s Party, Lagarde would bring formidable qualities to the role.