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Opaque in sentence

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The spread of English as the world’s language has had a paradoxical effect on American national security, making the United States transparent to people around the world, while making the rest of the world increasingly opaque to Americans.
China is sufficiently opaque that it is hard to know from the outside which interpretation is correct.
At this moment, however brief, America’s soft power defeated by a knockout that of China, which less than one day later solemnly – and in the most opaque manner – opened the 18th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.
Is it any wonder, then, that so many rational people are trying to make sense of a political reality that really has become unusually opaque?
Unconstrained by the kinds of grassroots activism seen in, say, democratic India, China has used massive, but often opaque, construction projects to bend nature to its will and trumpet its rise as a great power.
As the imbalance between China’s ever more dynamic, modern, and globalized economy and its opaque, single-party system of political rule deepened, many Western specialists predicted that the contradiction would inevitably trip China up.
A healthy season of reappraisal has dawned, shining a new light on boom-time notions like the value of opaque markets, the untouchable status of the American consumer, or the wisdom of deregulation.
– that central bankers should speak in an opaque and convoluted dialect.
By using an opaque and convoluted idiom, the only outsiders – reporters, politicians, and academics – who would be able to understand what the central bank was saying would be those who had carefully studied the issues and the language.
The US must not – and cannot – withdraw into an opaque cocoon of false isolationism, or allow strategic global decisions to be clouded by domestic political considerations.
While the European community was built among democracies, the political systems in Asia are so varied – and some so opaque – that building inter-state trust is not easy.
This is understandable in a region where income inequality, unresponsive bureaucracy, and opaque businesses practices are still very much a feature of everyday life.
The answer is hard to know, because the art world is extremely opaque.
The unorthodox techniques, however, are less nimble and more opaque.
The bad news is that the meeting was restricted to donors and Georgia’s government, with Transparency International criticizing its opaque decision-making process.
We see these problems today in state-owned firms in Latin America, political unrest in Africa, tensions in the Middle East or through opaque business intermediaries, as in the questionable gas deal between Ukraine and Russia, known now as RUE (RosUkrEnergo).
Worse, as is so often the case, those who suffer the most from the extractive industry’s opaque and unfair activities – not to mention the selfish actions of corrupt officials – are those who can least afford it.
Israel’s then-prime minister, Shimon Peres, was not exactly opaque when he declared in December 1995 that, if given peace, Israel “would give up the atom.”
All four North African rulers have, to greater or lesser degrees, made themselves the center of highly opaque power structures.
The Chinese position is similarly opaque.
It got an opaque – indeed, a downright incomprehensible – referendum question.
Third, we need better supervision and regulation of the financial system, including regulation of opaque or highly leveraged financial institutions such as hedge funds and even sovereign wealth funds.
Indeed, even in the opaque terms of contemporary politics, the German case is particularly vexing.
They declare that Britain must plunge ahead, because that was “the will of the people” (though exactly what voters believed they were voting for remains opaque).
Today, the systems by which most services are provided have become almost completely opaque to their users.
As we show in a new Citi GPS report , public commercial assets represent a potential goldmine; but they have been underutilized, owing to fragmented ownership arrangements, inaccurate or opaque accounting, and suboptimal and outdated governance structures.
The crisis was not a market failure, but rather the product of opaque, dysfunctional non-market institutions that had become perversely intertwined.
But banks used the innovation to place transparent securities in highly opaque “investment vehicles.”
Elsewhere, notably in Germany and France, such sweeping claims have been made for the so-called Constitution that the few who actually look at the draft must wonder why its 125 mostly dense if not opaque pages of text should save Europe.
All of that was grammar-school stuff compared to efforts to decipher the regime in North Korea, where the truth is far more opaque.
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