The more opaque part of the job is, by design, the more opaque part of the job.
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Online political ads, however, have historically been far more opaque.
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If anything, the process has become more opaque and uncertain.
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In Qatar, the United States faces a more opaque problem.
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This second layer is far more opaque than the first.
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That is an uncannier, more opaque thing, and infinitely more rare.
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Iranian exports have become more opaque since U.S. sanctions returned in November.
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Indeed, some may be making the market even more opaque than before.
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Still, the approach is a little more opaque than your typical Kickstarter.
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Other decisions were more opaque, though their effects were just as profound.
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Now, after some backroom wrangling, the language has become slightly more opaque.
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"This market is a lot more opaque than the bond market," he said.
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In other cases, like connected lightbulbs, the value proposition is even more opaque.
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As a result, the political system is getting more opaque and uncertain, not less.
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It seems we're in for more opaque, inconsistent rules-based enforcement and speech debates.
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But people get taken out of the equation in more opaque ways as well.
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And the health benefits of the wellness movement at large are ever more opaque.
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One of the more opaque segments of Tesla's business just became a little more transparent.
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Both the Clinton and Trump campaigns are more opaque than most, making sourcing more difficult.
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One thing is certain, however: The Tinder algorithm black box just got even more opaque.
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But as streaming services become more dominant, the economics of entertainment have become more opaque.
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It makes the organization more opaque and less helpful to those struggling (regardless of the cause).
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Trump's positions on foreign policy, among them on Egypt, are more opaque than those of Clinton.
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The more opaque rule-making is, the less chance there is for discussion, debate, and destigmatization.
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For a game played in the glare of open competition, its inner machinations were more opaque.
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That dark art seems to emanate from other, even more opaque branches of the Russian government.
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The country is growing more opaque both literally and figuratively, as smog intensifies and data blurs.
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Such reports may support the women's fears, but the data regarding Muslim women is far more opaque.
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Was it hard to go from something more opaque to fully exposing yourself and being so transparent?
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Keep the finish sheer for the daylight hours, then layer on a more opaque formula at night.
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Even though prices are displayed, the volume of shares available and demand for them is becoming more opaque.
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Azimuth's distributor, a much more opaque company called Linchpin Labs, is run by ex-spies, three sources said.
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Others, though, are much more opaque, with hard to track down owners, and advertisements on crime-focused websites.
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Iranian exports have become more opaque since U.S. sanctions returned in November, making it harder to assess volumes.
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Jordan Peele's second feature is a more opaque and ambitious work than his smash hit debut Get Out.
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On the other hand, offering benefits through more opaque and income-reliant ways tends to dampen these effects.
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The department schedule page seems to confirm that information in a more opaque way, listing an 11:45 a.m.
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The activating liquid goes on again and the nail can be dipped multiple times for a more opaque color.
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Market data charges have become more complex and fund industry representatives say prices have risen and become more opaque.
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Whether it's a ruddy brown, a cool greige, or a deep wine — the deeper and more opaque, the better.
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And creating a world that's more opaque instead of less opaque is worse than I thought we should do.
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His artwork, much of it in gouache, a thicker, more opaque form of watercolor, was featured in numerous exhibitions.
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But when regulators ignored their growth, they became more opaque and more profitable, with credit ratings disconnected from reality.
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GG: Asking an even more opaque question: How much of a threat do you think China is in this area?
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The real cost to patients is more opaque, buried in a tangled web of manufacturer rebates and insurance cost sharing.
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Unlike with the health care negotiations, the politics of a tax overhaul is much more opaque than conservatives versus moderates.
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If it happens at all, the equivalent Chinese discussion about the limits of ethical AI research is far more opaque.
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Mr Xi's constitutional changes—which go beyond scrapping term limits—could make the political system even more opaque and draconian.
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So, the authorities are wise to take steps to rein in the riskier lending and the more opaque savings instruments.
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But the way that OpenTable and Yelp and Hotel listings appear in Siri and Google Now is much more opaque.
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China's military is even more opaque than most, and the navy has not outlined its shipbuilding plans in any detail.
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More opaque regions represent where hot spots were detected multiple times, while the color and symbol indicate the type of eruption.
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"Tax preparation software makes such calculations manageable, but they would still make the already murky individual income tax even more opaque."
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In the 2010s, cum isn't potato soup — that's a little too chunky, and probably looks more opaque on camera than real semen.
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Although Vanguard's structure makes operations more opaque than those at some publicly traded rivals, it will seek investor approval of these appointments.
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In many ways, this secretive process is now more opaque and unfair than it was when anyone could apply on Twitter's website.
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The motive of the island killer, meanwhile, becomes far more opaque: Surely these victims are not beyond the reach of the law?
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What's also no secret, but is decidedly more opaque, is how much that new baby — a growing child — will end up costing.
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Since the models are covered in paint, the glass structure becomes more and more opaque as their bodies make contact with the glass.
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The catwalk version of Robbie's gown was completely sheer, though, so the actress opted for a more opaque finish on the red carpet.
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Foreign policy-making has become more bellicose and more opaque, and this makes new Russian military adventures more likely, some Western officials say.
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After years of slamming Democrats for writing Obamacare behind closed doors, Republicans have employed an even more opaque process to repeal the law.
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Democrats have shot back that Trump is an unhealthy eater and has been even more opaque about his medical history than she has.
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For another, all of this serves to render the job application process even more opaque, impersonal, and impenetrable to the average job hunter.
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Moran's problems with the bill were a little more opaque, though he faced rowdy protesters during his town halls back home in Kansas.
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I find myself in a forest of black and white, machine-made abstraction that is not clarified by language, but instead made more opaque.
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But it's clear that political momentum is building behind a new transparency regime for tech giants, rather than more opaque in-house 'tech fixes'.
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Shipments have become more opaque since sanctions returned, and Iran no longer reports its production figures to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
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The White House revamped its website Friday, and its new look proves it's possible for the Trump administration to make things even more opaque.
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However, the alteration is part of a long tradition of big companies making their names more opaque in order to make brand extensions easier.
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Pro-transparency group, the Lebanese Oil and Gas Initiative, urged the government to reconsider the decision, saying it might make the process more opaque.
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Finding another benchmark is difficult because the coal market is more opaque than other commodities such as crude oil, where exchanges readily publish futures prices.
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In contrast to the way it treats attacks on election infrastructure, the US government is far more opaque about how it combats foreign information operations.
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It's that intent from the manager — the idea that the actual boundaries for a qualified candidate are more opaque — that sparked the idea for Sourceress.
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Software used to predict recidivism in defendants result in racist outcomes, and more sophisticated artificial techniques will merely make these types of decisions more opaque.
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For instance, in response to Bakke, many selective universities shifted from straightforward numerical approaches to admission to the more opaque "holistic review" of individual applicants.
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Regulating the matter sounds very sensible and European—but no one has proposed a similar law for humans, whose decision-making is far more opaque.
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The investigation is also expected to hit investor confidence not just towards Lotte, one of the country's more opaque conglomerates, but all chaebol, fund managers said.
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In the two years before the nomination, just 4% of Trump condo and home buyers were taking the extra steps to make their transactions more opaque.
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Instacart changed its pay structure in November, resulting in a more opaque calculation: Workers get an earning estimate and are guaranteed $21 minimum pay per order.
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And then, after his father became vice president of the United States, Hunter moved into the more opaque world of highly paid "consulting" for foreign clients.
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The vocabulary can be ramped up a bit, the cluing can be made slightly more opaque, or the theme can delay that gratification you're looking for.
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Iranian exports have become more opaque since U.S. re-imposed sanctions in November after pulling out of a 2015 nuclear accord between Tehran and six world powers.
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That's because, as we have seen for some time, and even Paul Krugman acknowledges, currency manipulation can be achieved by more opaque means outside the currency markets.
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Worse, shadow banking is much more opaque than the highly regulated banking sector, which means that nasty surprises are much more likely to occur in the former.
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Merit review is both more opaque than a U.S.-style review, which depends on high levels of public disclosure, and also therefore more subject to political suasion.
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But it also made him a nuisance in Silicon Valley, where tech executives publicly praise a spirit of openness even as many of them become more opaque.
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Gang references abound in hip-hop, though as the genre moved closer to pop's center in the late 1990s into the 2000s, those stories became more opaque.
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"In some cases the complexity of digital processes may actually render elections more opaque and vulnerable to manipulation—or at least the suspicion of manipulation," he has written.
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We see her dismantled, speaking less, becoming more opaque, pushing the camera away until the final scene, when she walks away from it and forbids us to follow.
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"I've never in my 27 years seen a more opaque, top-down, my-way-or-the-highway franchise system," said Eric Karp, a lawyer for the national coalition.
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Rather than an overlayed image you'd see with more traditional AR (if you can call it that), it's a composite image that allows for more opaque graphical imagery.
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The company's preloads also sometimes include a handful of other Facebook-branded system apps which are even less visible on the device and whose function is even more opaque.
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As these two trends play out, the aluminum market is becoming more opaque, which means that a physical squeeze, whatever its origins, may be hard to spot in advance.
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As these two trends play out, the aluminium market is becoming more opaque, which means that a physical squeeze, whatever its origins, may be hard to spot in advance.
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They're sheer (I own the light blue, it could be more opaque for darker colors), but not so sheer that I wouldn't wear them as streetwear on hot days, too.
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Zilpha turns out to be a bit more opaque, however, as she swings from cowering before her husband in one scene to laughing at his empty threats in the next.
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The idea I think of assembling a WarnerMedia offering is just more challenging because that connection between the brands, what that brand means, is just a lot more opaque. Right.
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The move has rendered the investing decisions of the firm, which controls about $26 billion in assets, more opaque than ever as it is no longer answerable to outside investors.
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He was telling associates as recently as this summer that he had no plans to sell any of his shares, but his thinking became more opaque to outsiders in recent weeks.
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It's one thing to lend money to the Chinese government, but this will serve as a benchmark for pricing debt sales by other Chinese borrowers, some of them far more opaque.
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Beanpole's seemingly docile acquiescence to her friend is more opaque, her motives emerging over a story that eventually involves Masha's ridiculously insistent suitor (Igor Shirokov) and a soulful doctor (Andrey Bykov).
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In August, its engineering director argued blocking cookies, which are text files of data that allow advertisers to target online consumers, would only encourage more opaque tracking techniques like digital fingerprinting.
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But the objectives of Northern Ireland as a whole are a bit more opaque, made more complicated by the fact that the region has been without a government for two years.
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The RBA also pointed to financial stability risks in China which has "very high levels" of debt and rapid lending growth from less regulated and more opaque parts of the financial system.
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There are three impeachable offenses: treason, bribery and the more opaque "high crimes and misdemeanors," but the House of Representatives has the responsibility to accuse the president of one of those things.
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Trading in fixed income markets is more opaque than equities with bonds largely traded via Bloomberg, Tradeweb, which is majority owned by Thomson Reuters Corp and a multitude of banks' own trading platforms.
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Furthermore, China's military spending is more opaque -- actual spending could be 20-40% more than what is reported -- and most likely does not include ongoing modernisation programs, despite official claims to the contrary.
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China dominates production of many of the minor metals, which tend to be produced as byproducts in relatively small quantities and trade is more opaque than in major base metals, such as copper.
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Moran, for his part, was more opaque in his problems with the bill, but he urged Senate leadership to "start fresh with an open legislative process" to develop a new health care plan.
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That means they're more costly than they need to be, more error prone, subject to increasing amounts of fraud, and provide a slower and more opaque process for borrowers than might otherwise be possible.
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Because this is a "voluntary" recall rather than something coordinated with the CPSC, the entire process of both getting phones returned and getting new models exchanged has been more opaque than it should be.
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Iran's export levels have become more opaque since U.S. sanctions on the country's oil sector took effect in November, although estimates of March supplies are falling into a narrower range than in previous months.
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Both Stardew Valley and Trio of Towns also offer concrete meters and milestones to measure progress against, compared to the more opaque goals that have been central to many BokuMono games in the past.
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They suggest that these women may be crying rape — out of vengeance or confusion or motives even more opaque — which helps to perpetuate the myth that a large percentage of rape accusations are false.
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It culminated in multidimensional dresses that shrouded an inner layer of Op Art dots or stripes beneath a more opaque peekaboo outer layer of knits, like a secret that could be glimpsed but not accessed.
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Had they donated their own money, stayed under individual contribution limits, and chosen a more opaque legal vehicle instead of Global Energy Producers to donate to superPACs, they likely would have flown under the radar.
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When it comes to Google and Facebook, the process is more opaque — the companies offer their services for free, but in exchange, they gather reams of data from users to use for their advertising businesses.
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A 2013 image of the Martian surface snapped by the Opportunity rover Photo: NASAThe NASA press release explains that dust storms are measured with a number called "tau," with higher tau indicating a more opaque atmosphere.
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In Sudan, crossed by migrants trying to reach Libya, the relationship is more opaque but rooted in mutual need: The Europeans want closed borders and the Sudanese want to end years of isolation from the West.
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While he had told associates earlier this year that he had no plans to sell a single share — perhaps with his eyes on his old CEO seat — his feelings now are more opaque to close observers.
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" While Walmart is "on track" to meet the goal in its own-brand products that use paper and palm oil, a spokeswoman said "soy and beef chains are more opaque and complex," impeding "transparency and progress.
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They also provided fodder for Trump's sustained social media assault on the Democratic candidate, reinforcing populist resentment against her – somewhat ironically, given Trump's personal wealth, which is far greater and more opaque than the Clintons' millions.
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Keys to Trump Victory1-Silent bigots voted in large numbers2-Islamophobia was a winning strategy3-Sexismand Racism are deeply embedded As this election fades into the distance, explanations for the outcome will become gentler and more opaque.
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The exact level of Iranian exports has become more opaque since U.S. sanctions returned in November, making it harder to assess volumes and meaning estimates are falling into a range rather than focusing on a definitive figure.
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Why it matters: Natural gas prices are more opaque than gasoline prices you see driving down the street, but the fuel is actually more diverse and used in everything from home heating to electricity to industrial manufacturing.
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Clinton has failed to provide the public access to her full medical records, but her opponent 70-year-old Donald Trump has been even more opaque even though he would be the oldest first-term president ever elected.
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But his campaign for that office comes amid complaints that his rule of the Serb Republic has grown more opaque and authoritarian as he adopts attitudes that his opponents say are cozying up to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The fundamental operating principles of the battery business, on the other hand, are considerably more opaque, thanks to an almost paranoid taste for secrecy among suppliers and the baffling economics of the Asian conglomerates that lead the market.
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If you are after a more opaque, creamy finish, take this advice: For something universally-flattering, Nasrat recommends Laura Mercier's Natural Lips liner for pale to fair skin tones and MAC's Spice for medium to deep skin tones.
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Its core copper operations are much more opaque and although it makes sense that it has been quietly buying up international metal, no-one's suggesting that it has done so in sufficient quantities to explain last year's record imports.
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"As a general rule, the more opaque or complicated a revenue-raising measure is, the easier it is to enact," said Michael Steel of Hamilton Place Strategies, a onetime senior aide to former House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).
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But what's a lot more opaque is how Facebook is sharing data with marketers, advertisers, and others to help them sell us things, and what developers learn about us when we use Facebook to sign in to their apps.
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So McConnell has spent the month and a half since trying to craft a proposal behind closed doors — first through a group of 13 Republican senators holding talks, and then through the even more opaque leadership-led process happening now.
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While the new detail on WeWork's individual buildings is useful — it suggests that at least some parts of the company can become profitable businesses — the total effect of the new accounts is to render WeWork more opaque and complicated than ever.
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A September investigation by The Associated Press showed that Trump's supply chain has become more opaque than ever since she took on her White House role, making it impossible to know who her company is doing business with around the world.
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The "force" of Nicks's title can be the obvious colloquial reference—the police—but it can also be a much more literal, yet somewhat more opaque, allusion: how these public servants should wield the power and authority we give them.
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But a top Treasury official, Jennifer Shasky Calvery, said her agency had seen instances in which multimillion-dollar homes were being used as safe deposit boxes for ill-gotten gains, in transactions made more opaque by the use of anonymous shell companies.
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"We think, given the more opaque nature of the news flow into April, you're in for a period of consolidation, a pullback on the way to what we still think are new highs," said Julian Emanuel, equity and derivatives strategist with UBS.
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"Some browsers have reacted to these concerns by blocking third-party cookies, but we believe this has unintended consequences that can negatively impact both users and the web ecosystem," he said, adding that it could promote more "opaque" and "invasive" tracking techniques.
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The information included in these examples may seem like small pickings, but in the UK, law enforcement's use of hacking powers has traditionally been much more opaque than in, say, the US, where the FBI's purchase and deployment of malware has been more widely reported.
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Ms Wycech and Dr Kelly suspect that the compaction which transforms ooze into sedimentary rock forces carbon-containing compounds like bicarbonates into the shells, both making them more opaque and diluting their 14C—and thus causing them to appear older than they really are.
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Within her complaint, Sandoval claimed that YumEarth knowingly engaged in deceptive marketing tactics by neglecting to list "sugar" as one of its ingredients for YumEarth Organics Vitamin C Pops, instead using the more opaque term "evaporated cane juice," which is really sugar in cosplay.
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They are way too high, the private market has proven incapable of dealing with it–pharmacy benefit managers have only made the drug market more opaque, and the biggest drug purchaser in the world, the U.S. government, has been politically unwilling to deal with it.
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This game may not be as well-remembered as the classic original or groundbreaking third entry, but consult a guide to get you past a few of the more opaque puzzles and I think you'll find this really is a very innovative and well-crafted action RPG.
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That's not to say that the usual Beach House markers aren't around (even the track name "Lemon Glow" is Extremely Beach House): their overwhelming sense of stillness remains present, as Victoria Legrand's voice glides through layers of synth, which feel just a little more opaque this time around.
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At the same time, there are structural aspects of the insurance industry that are more opaque and perhaps riskier than the public thinks, creating the potential for localized financial damage from a massive hurricane to quickly spread internationally, a process similar to what happened during the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008.
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While the daily ups and downs of prices for stocks and bonds have long been easy to obtain and analyze, the housing market was much more opaque when Mr. Case teamed up in the 1980s with a Yale economist, Robert Shiller, to develop an economic model to track home values.
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The news media are losing access to information — not just because the incoming administration is even less transparent than the outgoing one, and is openly hostile to journalists, but also because full control of both houses of Congress is allowing the Republican Party to make the legislative process more opaque.
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For many of the major categories, including the big four and genres like rap, rock, R&B and jazz, the voters' top 20 picks are then narrowed down by more opaque review committees, which determine the final nominees, with winners selected later by the general membership of about 13,000 voters.
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A group called Googlers for Ending Forced Arbitration will push a discussion on social media aimed at raising awareness on the practice, which prevents workers from suing their employers over certain matters and instead forces them to resolve disputes in arbitration — a process that is much more opaque and that critics say favors employers.
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A group called Googlers for Ending Forced Arbitration will push a discussion on social media aimed at raising awareness on the practice, which prevents workers from suing their employers over certain matters and instead forces them to resolve disputes in arbitration -- a process that is much more opaque and that critics say favors employers.
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To render such plausible geostrategic intersections even more ominous, and perhaps more "opaque," they could further be affected by an already emergent "Cold War II." Oddly, for at least several reasons, Riyadh is now extending certain collaborative overtures to Moscow, taking some genuinely novel steps toward cementing a unique but also unpredictable sort of alignment with the "other" superpower.
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It's been very interesting to watch how the Belt and Road Initiative has evolved over the past five or six years, from being one that was dominated by state-to-state flows where the deals tended to be a little bit more opaque and had a little bit less commercial rigor than what's been increasingly happening which is deals that have a strong element of market support.
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But in a sign that there remains an abundance of oil available to buyers and that the more opaque physical oil market is not as convinced by the rally in financial markets, top exporter Saudi Arabia this month lowered the price for its May crude for Asian customers by 30 cents versus April, and to a discount of 45 cents compared with the benchmark Oman/Dubai average.
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