Decisions taken behind opaque walls are more likely to be diverted to their interests.

The truth is opaque and consequently imperceptible.

It got an opaque indeed, a downright incomprehensible referendum question.

How it did so was opaque, and split many families apart.

It's why barware is glamorous. Glamour is translucent not transparent, not opaque.

The answer is hard to know, because the art world is extremely opaque.

Pandering to authoritarian regimes and opaque business interests is not a wholesome enterprise.

Sufficient unto themselves behind the Kremlin's walls, Putin and his officials rule in ways more arbitrary and opaque than would be tolerated in a true democracy.

For many people, EU decision making is opaque, inefficient, and removed from democratic control.

But banks used the innovation to place transparent securities in highly opaque investment vehicles.

However, opaque solutions designed to avoid critical public scrutiny do not seem particularly democratic.

In Iran, they often have to be opaque to keep themselves out of trouble.

Today, however, opaque bilateral agreements abound, and very different environmental requirements and contradictory subsidies coexist.

Indeed, even in the opaque terms of contemporary politics, the German case is particularly vexing.

We had two opaque boxes one with government approved THC marijuana, and one with nothing.

Besides, China is already pouring money into the developing world, often through highly opaque channels.

Yet while their economies blossomed, power remained opaque, screened by personal loyalties, secret deals, corrupt practices.

Such information gives you power primarily in a secretive, opaque world where access to information is limited.

Such Westerners are now often just as enamored of China s paternalistic and equally opaque and impenetrable political system.

The fundamental question today is who monitors opaque loans, whether of the sub prime or any other variety.

Such Westerners are now often just as enamored of China s paternalistic and equally opaque and impenetrable political system.

Indeed, this financial repression tax on domestic savers remains a huge opaque source of funding for India s debt ridden government.

As long as Gazprom remains opaque, Europe cannot know whether its key supplier is spending enough to develop future reserves.

The US lacks investment in infrastructure and has excess investment in financial derivatives the result of opaque leverage from over consumption.

HONG KONG The proliferation of China s opaque, loosely regulated (or unregulated) shadow banking system has been raising fears of possible financial instability.

On news blog Scroll.in, M Rajashekar commented, The other proposition of tax havens is their indulgence towards companies with opaque ownership structures.

Washington has argued that Iran's difficulties attracting foreign investment are Tehran's problem, blaming the country's obsolete banking sector and opaque business environment.

The bad news is that the meeting was restricted to donors and Georgia s government, with Transparency International criticizing its opaque decision making process.

In a globalized world environment, the question of who is responsible for what has become as opaque if not unanswerable as it is urgent.

So, as disputes with the West come to a head, it is important to recognize the power shifts underway inside Iran s opaque political system.

Given that balance sheet accounting is conducted according to a curious mix of nominal and market values, it can be opaque and easy to manipulate.

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?

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?

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.

The status quo opaque rules, arbitrary decision making, and lack of accountability allows insiders to enrich themselves, especially by obtaining a share of commodity export revenues.

And the opaque Ecuadorian methods are not possible in Europe, both for legal reasons and because a transaction of this size could hardly be disguised or outsourced.

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. Fourth, the role of rating agencies needs to be rethought, with more regulation and competition introduced.

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.

A report produced last month reveals that income from the harvest goes into an opaque extra budgetary sovereign wealth fund called Selkhozfond, about which almost nothing is known.

But support for the TNC is largely skin deep it is neither grounded in knowledge of how the opaque council functions, nor based on an understanding of its goals.

Mr. Greenspan was a strong believer, in practice if not in theory for who could understand his theory? that central bankers should speak in an opaque and convoluted dialect.

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.

In short, Google is changing expectations about what people can know even in the United States, where formal censorship is absent, but government obfuscation, opaque corporations, and the like are not.

However, opaque solutions designed to avoid critical public scrutiny do not seem particularly democratic. Innovative financing solutions might also undermine the clear assignment of responsibilities for raising and using public money.

Ever since he became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of the Peoples Republic of China four years ago, Hu Jintao has remained infuriatingly wooden faced and opaque.