Observers in Turner's day regularly remarked on his painterly obfuscations.
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The memorial piece concerned itself with trafficking heavy-handed moral obfuscations.
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The deceit, the obfuscations, the treachery: It's all coming from inside the house.
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Parks emphasizes those frustrating obfuscations by breaking the play up into blocks and songs.
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Western diplomats decided that Iran's obfuscations were predictable and it was time to move on.
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Despite the attempted walkbacks, clarifications and various obfuscations about dropped contractions, the damage is real.
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This contrasts with politicians' obfuscations that are accepted and repeated by the media – or just ignored.
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Whatever obfuscations Trump and Spicer make, the ban is against Muslim people with the right to entry.
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Despite Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's obfuscations, diplomats in Yangon have tended to avoid increasing public pressure.
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Fourth, Schumer served as an equally effective foil to combat the flood of obfuscations coming from the president.
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Malaysia&aposs transport minister, Anthony Loke, had promised total transparency in the document, with no redactions or obfuscations.
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The mess of denials, obfuscations and accusations of "witch hunts" will feel familiar to anyone who follows the news today.
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The FDA also put food producers on notice against any further attempts at hiding the word inside a sweet coating of obfuscations.
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Betts redacts court documents, reversing the censor's role by revealing inscriptions of injustice while blacking out the dense obfuscations of legal language.
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These obfuscations could cause legal trouble for the company, says Michael Veale, a technology privacy researcher at the Alan Turing Institute in London.
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Gitmo, the "War on Terror" prison at the US Naval Base on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is no exception to this staging of obfuscations.
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One of the surprises buried in Mueller's December court filings documenting Paul Manafort's ongoing obfuscations was that Manafort twice testified before Mueller's grand jury.
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Washington (CNN)Endangered Republican candidates are responding to health care-focused campaign attacks with falsehoods and obfuscations -- with President Donald Trump leading the charge.
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And that isn't even getting into the web of obfuscations, cronyism and incompetence that has tainted the Trump team from the earliest days of the campaign.
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As [Executive Editor Dean Baquet] has said, we're not going to use "lie" to describe the sort of routine obfuscations or exaggerations that politicians engage in.
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That's why stories like the Times piece are vital: They show the extent of the obfuscations and outright lies that the rich partake in every day.
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We don't have the language to convey how serious the president's lies—or obfuscations or exaggerations or feints or whatever else you want to call them—are.
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As the debate on the correct attitude vis-a-vis the JCPOA rages on in Washington and major European capitals, Tehran keeps issuing denials and creating obfuscations.
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The government has rightly been condemned for its appalling treatment of the Windrush generation and its obfuscations about whether Britain has targets for the removal of illegal immigrants.
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These obfuscations and omissions come as little surprise, however, if we understand, as Mitchell does, that monuments aren't about history; rather, monuments defeat history to justify the present.
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The Republicans ignored not only his extreme views on issues such as executive power, gun control, and reproductive rights but his obfuscations, if not outright lies, to the committee.
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Rising approval -- Trump's spins and obfuscations have worked, to some degree, to his personal advantage since Americans say in polls that they approve of how he's handling the crisis.
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Yet, if you look again — through obfuscations foreign and domestic, beyond the noise of the social media mob — you find a durable past that may just save us yet.
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The surprising number of hard-to-believe "I can't recall" responses and Clinton's other obfuscations surprised even some of her harshest critics, and her poll numbers started to sag again.
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Denials of science and fossil fuel industry obfuscations seem to be fading from relevance as more Americans now see the reality of climate change impact their day to day lives.
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Many nations now face the stark choice to either heed calls from the White House for more assertive policies or else swallow Tehran's denials and obfuscations regardless of the facts.
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Like Hill, she had a purity to her manner and story that was luminous, an impressive contrast to all the dark obfuscations, self-serving political maneuvering and petty deceptions around her.
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The trunk does not yield much, but family and friends offer recollections: their revisions, obfuscations, and digressions illustrate Oe's abiding interest in the elusiveness of personal and national memory in postwar Japan.
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Yet the evidence against such innocence seems clear too, in the form of consistent lies, omissions, and obfuscations about the numerous meetings, conversations, and contacts with Russians throughout the Trump campaign, transition, and presidency.
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Last year's election, which brought Maithripala Sirisena, a moderate Sinhalese, to power, raised hopes for reconciliation, and an end to government obfuscations about the brutality that took place here during the war's final months.
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But Wednesday's developments will be seen in an even more foreboding light given the multiple lies, changes of story and obfuscations offered by other Trump confidants about contacts with Russian officials or private citizens.
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"The problem he's got is he has a client who he wants to be transparent but most of what he says are obfuscations and half-truths," said a second attorney working on the Russia investigation.
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He has particular genres of lies that he comes back to time and again, which show both the casual attitude he has toward truth and the impact his obfuscations have on the debate around him.
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In the process, the special counsel is beginning to expose the lies and obfuscations that people around Trump, and the President himself, erected to try to hide multiple, unexplained ties to Russians in, and before, 2016.
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In an interview, Thomas DiNanno, deputy assistant secretary and senior bureau official at the State Department's Bureau of Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance, pointed to the difference between his committee's findings about the incident and Russia's repeated denials and obfuscations.
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In the face of these realities, both sides want the option of continuing to say that the one-China framework holds, and looking for fresh obfuscations to that end—new helpings of fudge to put on top of that served up in the 1992 consensus.
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As Anthony Tommasini writes: On a basic level, the American Revolution was driven by words: fiery statements of principle; charges of imperialist oppression; accusations of betrayal; fine points of governance; even wordy obfuscations to gloss over disagreements that could have sabotaged the country at its start.
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It is hard to defend his disastrous handling of the New York City Housing Authority, which has been troubled and underfunded for decades but reached peak crisis during his tenure, with lies and obfuscations about lead paint inspections and the increasing debilitation of the buildings themselves.
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On the contrary, it is the sheer naïveté of the piece that makes it function — the chance it presents for a respite, however silly and brief, from all the incessant, sophisticated little obfuscations and half-truths most of us must rely on to make adult life bearable.
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Its fundamental purpose is truth-seeking — unlike, say, the embarrassing obfuscations of the Republican leaders of the House Intelligence Committee, who last week absolved Mr. Trump and his campaign of any wrongdoing in a 250-page report that reads more like a work of fantasy than a government investigation.
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Last Friday, Italy recalled its ambassador to Egypt for consultations over next steps after the investigation into Mr. Regeni's death hit a wall of Egyptian lies and obfuscations, including preposterous claims that Mr. Regeni died in a car crash and, when that didn't fly, that he was robbed by a criminal gang.
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The obfuscations from Ghomeshi and Hockenberry follow a familiar, consistent pattern that we've seen time and time again when men accused of hurting women prepare to reenter public life: Be vague, imply heavily that it was all a long time ago and you're the real victim here, and never discuss what's happened to the people you hurt.
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Setting aside lie after deceiving lie the administration has spewed in its efforts to cover up the myriad of meetings Trump officials have had with the Russians — meetings they all forget until they get caught — and what we are left with are the pathetic excuses, diversions and obfuscations they fall back on to justify what is happening.
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The subsequent investigation was led by a brilliant Lebanese airline pilot named Mohammed Aziz, who after nearly two years of obstructionism and obfuscations by the Ethiopians produced a report laying the blame squarely on the pilots, who had overshot assigned compass headings left and right, overbanked repeatedly, stalled twice and, for lack of airmanship, entered a lethal high-G spiral dive.
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There was a bevy of reasons to choose from for those viewers disappointed in last night's "Commander-in-Chief Forum" on national security broadcast by NBC (analysts have already skewered Matt Lauer's insidious sexism, Clinton's strangely bungled response to questions about her email scandal, Trump's obfuscations about his stance on the Iraq war), but two stand out in stark relief against a backdrop of lesser problems.
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Monday's split-screen drama, as the House Judiciary Committee weighed impeachment charges against President Trump and as the Justice Department's inspector general released a 476-page report on the FBI's handling of its 2016 investigation into Trump's campaign, made one truth of the modern world inescapable: The lies and obfuscations forwarded ad infinitum on Fox News pose a dangerous threat to the national security of the United States.
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Throughout his campaign, Trump has made use of a handful of compliant women who will do his bidding: his daughter, Ivanka, whose polish and charm lulled many voters into thinking her father couldn't be that bad; his campaign manager turned counselor, Kellyanne Conway, whose artful deflections and word-salad obfuscations cover for her boss' lies and ill temper on the Sunday morning shows; and his wife, Melania, a smiling, silent partner whose presence doesn't seem to register with her husband until he needs an attractive prop for a photo.
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The human story is replete with examples of moments when the truth was traduced or when the truth was obscured: the disputed reports about how the battleship Maine was sunk in 1898; the trumped-up conspiracy surrounding the 1933 burning of the Reichstag that led to a brutal suspension of civil liberties shortly after the Nazis took power in Germany; the false contention that the U-2 reconnaissance plane flown by Francis Gary Powers in 1960 wasn't engaged in espionage over the Soviet Union; the misleading claims about the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin episode that drew the United States deeper into Vietnam; the repeated obfuscations of the 1970s Watergate scandal; Bill Clinton's 1998 denials of a relationship with Monica Lewinsky; and the false belief that Saddam Hussein harbored weapons of mass destruction in 2003.
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This is a story about love and deception. The deceptions come in every form - outright lies, obfuscations, failure to speak up, misleading silence, misdirection, rampant insincerity. Against this tidal wave, the main characters fight to find happiness. Their battles never fail to engage.
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Retrieved on January 8, 2014. Variety said that Imeldawho has been accustomed to public attention since her teenage years, was convinced that her charm and charisma would create a more favorable impression in the film than might otherwise be expected. It said that "her defenses of her husband and his regime are obviously filled with rationalizations and obfuscations". Other reviewers were more scathing, or note her distorted reality and the many contradictions with which she lives.
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Ashtamoorthi's literature has an immense influence of Indian city life which he had gained from his early Bombay days. This city life experience and influence of the great Malayalam writer M T Vasudevan Nair, always inspired his later literary works in a positive way. His short stories are very simple and lucid, without any complexities or obfuscations of the language. He is always concerned about the craft of his works rather than mere characters and their details.
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Max Winter, a Minneapolis businessman was among the eight proposed franchise owners in the American Football League. In a move typical of the NFL owners who were frightened by the prospect of competition and continually obstructed the new league, they offered Winter an expansion franchise in the NFL. This was after the NFL had rejected Lamar Hunt's feelers, saying they were not interested in expansion. One of many obfuscations put forward by the NFL in its attempt to derail the AFL.
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If the user needs to add annotations, highlightings or obfuscations to the screenshot the built-in image editor can be used. Greenshot's image editor is a basic vector graphics editor; however, it offers some pixel-based filters. It allows to draw basic shapes (rectangles, ellipses, lines, arrows and freehand) and add text to a screenshot. Special filter tools are present to highlight text or an area, as well as obfuscating tools (blur / pixelize) which can be used to wipe out sensitive data from a screenshot.
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Many of the facts relating to her early life are difficult to ascertain due partly to the circumstances of the time and place, partly to unintentional mistakes and typographical errors, and partly to outright fabrications and obfuscations by her friends and enemies, and by herself. Elena Lupescu was the daughter of Elise (or Eliza)Many sources give her name as “Elizei”. That is an misunderstanding, caused probably by an original author who did not speak Romanian. In Romanian, “Elizei” is the genitive case of “Eliza”; thus, the phrase “Eliza’s daughter” is in Romanian “fiica Elizei” and Nicolae Lupescu, an apothecary.
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Writing and reading obfuscated source code can be a brain teaser. A number of programming contests reward the most creatively obfuscated code, such as the International Obfuscated C Code Contest and the Obfuscated Perl Contest. Types of obfuscations include simple keyword substitution, use or non-use of whitespace to create artistic effects, and self-generating or heavily compressed programs. According to Nick Montfort, techniques may include: # naming obfuscation, which includes naming variables in a meaningless or deceptive way; # data/code/comment confusion, which includes making some actual code look like comments or confusing syntax with data; # double coding, which can be displaying code in poetry form or interesting shapes.
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The league then began advancing money to the club from league revenues, and made a loan to the club in February 2009, for a combined estimated total of $44.5 million over the full season. During the season, commissioner Bettman and deputy commissioner Bill Daly had made a series of denials and obfuscations, while firing the Coyotes CEO and laying off 18 Coyotes employees. Moyes' documents filed with the court indicated that the team had lost $73 million over the last three years, and that the projected loss was $45 million for 2008–09. Jacques Martin became the head coach of the Montreal Canadiens on June 1 when former coach Bob Gainey returned to his general manager status.
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But both Josephus and Philo apply the name to the whole land of the Hebrews ; and Greek and Roman writers employed it in the like extent."Lewis, 1993, p. 153. The term is rarely used in the Septuagint, which used a transliteration Land of Phylistieim (Γῆ τῶν Φυλιστιείμ) different from the contemporary Greek place name Palaistínē (Παλαιστίνη). The Septuagint instead used the term "allophuloi" (άλλόφυλοι, "other nations") throughout the Books of Judges and Samuel,: "Our names ‘Philistia’ and ‘Philistines’ are unfortunate obfuscations, first introduced by the translators of the LXX and made definitive by Jerome’s Vg. When turning a Hebrew text into Greek, the translators of the LXX might simply—as Josephus was later to do—have Hellenized the Hebrew פְּלִשְׁתִּים as Παλαιστίνοι, and the toponym פְּלִשְׁתִּ as Παλαιστίνη.
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While Descartes doubts the ability of the senses to provide us with accurate information, Bacon doubts the ability of the mind to deduce truths by itself as it is subjected to so many intellectual obfuscations, Bacon's "Idols." In his first aphorism of New organum, Bacon states: "Man, the servant and interpreter of nature, does and understands only as much as he has observed, by fact or mental activity, concerning the order of nature; beyond that he has neither knowledge nor power." So, in a basic sense the central difference between the philosophical methods of Descartes and those of Bacon can be reduced to an argument between deductive and inductive reasoning and whether to trust or doubt the senses. However, there is another profound difference between the two thinkers' positions on the accessibility of Truth.
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After The Maltese Double Cross was broadcast on television, it received several reviews in mainstream British newspapers which were generally negative. Writing in The Guardian, Stuart Jeffries suggested that the complex argument of the film was "ill presented" and that "if future documentarists need an example of how not to make a film about complicated intrigues, they should watch The Maltese Double Cross." In his review of the film in The Independent, Thomas Sutcliffe noted that "Francovich wasn't exactly a dispassionate seeker after truth," and that although the film raised "some real questions about the official account…it didn't replace it with any reliable truth of its own." Similarly, Lynn Truss of The Times noted that the film had an important and controversial story to tell, but that the "obfuscations of the commentary and editing were unpardonable".
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In the fandom the word "ship" and its derivatives like "shipping" or "shipper" are commonly used as shorthand for the word "relationship." The Harry Potter series generated ship debates with supporters of the prospective relationship between Harry Potter and his close female friend Hermione Granger at odds with supporters of Hermione ending up instead with Ron Weasley, close friend of both, as well as supporters of Harry ending up with Ginny Weasley, Ron's younger sister. Quotes from Rowling which seemed to contradict the possibility of Harry ending up with Hermione were usually countered by claiming them to be deliberate obfuscations designed to lure astute observation off-course (though such claims were far from undisputed, given that these allegedly vague quotes included such phrases as "[Harry and Hermione] are very platonic friends", and were repeated on at least three different occasions). An interview with J.K. Rowling conducted by fansite webmasters Emerson Spartz (MuggleNet) and Melissa Anelli (The Leaky Cauldron) shortly after the book's release turned out to be quite controversial.
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For example, they revealed the Johnson administration's obfuscations to Congress concerning the Gulf of Tonkin incidents that had led to direct U.S. intervention; they exposed the clandestine bombing of Laos that had begun in 1964; and they detailed the American government's complicity in the death of Ngô Đình Diệm. The study presented a continuously pessimistic view of the likelihood of victory and generated fierce criticism of U.S. policies. The importance of the actual content of the papers to U.S. policy-making was disputed, but the window that they provided into the flawed decision-making process at the highest levels of the U.S. government opened the issue for other questions. Their publication was a news event and the government's legal (Nixon lost to the Supreme Court) and extra-legal efforts (the "Plumbers" break-in at the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist committed to gain material to discredit him, was one of the first steps on the road to Watergate) carried out to prevent their publication—mainly on national security grounds—then went on to generate yet more criticism and suspicion of the government by the American public.
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Lippmann’s book is a forceful critique of what he takes to be mistaken conceptions of "the public" found in democratic theory like that it is made up of sovereign and omnicompetent citizens (21); "the people" are a sort of superindividual with one will and one mind (160) or an "organism with an organic unity of which the individual is a cell" (147); the public directs the course of events (77); it is a knowable body with fixed membership (110); it embodies cosmopolitan, universal, disinterested intuition (168-9); and it is a dispenser of law or morals (106). Lippmann counters that the public is none of those things but a "mere phantom," an abstraction (77) embedded in a "false philosophy" (200) that depends on a "mystical notion of society" (147). Democratic theories, he argues, vaguely assert that the public can act competently to direct public affairs and that the functioning of government is the will of the people, but Lippmann dismisses such notions of the capacities of the public as a fiction. Against the idealizations and obfuscations, Lippmann posits that society is made up of two types of people: agents and bystanders (also referred to as insiders and outsiders).
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