Sentences with phrase «by opaque»

It's not everywhere — Windows are still framed by opaque borders — but it adds a nice bit of refinement to the Start Menu and Action Center panels in particular.

where Te is the effective temperature (as defined by the absorbed solar radiation), Ts is the surface temperature, and Tt represents the stratospheric temperature that is being defined by the opaque spectral region.

That «threshold of appearance» marks a particular transitional awareness that is formally made evident by the opaque use of a singular soft lovat green paint application, something that adds to the sense of veiled transparency and in certain aspects also reinforces the interstitial space that often exists in Serebriakova's art between drawing and painting.

In both videos, as speakers engage with technical processes and bureaucratic systems, human vulnerability is gently drawn out, suffusing the works with an atmosphere of existential comedy, wrought from a present governed by opaque systems of control.

Side windows add natural light, tastefully subdued by opaque glass and gauze curtaining.

Rates offered by opaque providers (e.g., Hotwire, Priceline) that do not provide the name or location of the hotel until after a reservation has been made;

Prices offered by opaque providers (e.g., Hotwire, Priceline) that do not provide the name or location of the hotel until after a reservation has been made; and

The layman's confusion is caused in part by opaque naming.

I would also add that the price of the investment should be greatly influenced by an opaque government entity that can arbitrarily change a parameter (prime rate) that is subject to ill - defined political pressures that the homeowner can't predict or influence.

«A new tolerance for the Muslim headscarf and an intolerance of alcohol point the way towards a more fiercely Islamist future, partly inspired by the opaque Fethullah Gulen movement, which seems strongly represented in the police.»

«At LAUSD they are judged in never - ending witch hunts by an opaque third party, the Office of the Inspector General, that has no obligation to publicly share its findings or allow schools to address or refute them,» said Jason Mandell of the California Charter Schools Association in a letter about LAUSD's decisions and Huntington Park's decision to extend a temporary moratorium of charter schools.

Internal spaces like hallways, classrooms, and cafeterias — typically separated from each other by opaque structures like walls and doorways — have given way to open layouts that emphasize glass partitions and uninterrupted lines of sight, borrowing from cutting - edge work environments like Google's and Apple's campuses.

Specifically, it is the slavery that thrived in an American era habitually known by an opaque Latinism: antebellum, although this is a story from the cold civil war that preceded the hot one.

To maximize melatonin production, everyone should sleep in a totally darkened room, with windows covered by opaque drapes and all lights extinguished and LCD or LED clocks turned face down.

To confound its potential predators, the glass squid makes use of two U-shaped light - emitting photophores located at the base of its eyes: the lights cancel out the shadows cast by the opaque eyes.

The rats spent most of the time in a simple maze akin to two stalls divided by an opaque wall.

Physiologists (especially Leslie G. Ungerleider of the National Institute of Mental Health, Ricardo Gattass of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Charles D. Gilbert of the Rockefeller University) have explored the neural mechanism of this process by monitoring the manner in which single neurons in the visual centers respond to objects partially covered by the blind spot or by opaque occluders.

The truth is that places for Bishops are an anachronistic feudal hangover, the retention of which is supported not by democratic will or principles of public accountability but by opaque vested interests.»

But after following the rules to the letter again and again, a coalition of reformers seeking nothing more than to be heard has been repeatedly thwarted by the opaque and exclusionary methods of the Party.

By an opaque concept of revelation, 1 mean that familiar amalgamation of three levels of language in one form of traditional teaching about revelation: first, the level of the confession of faith where the lex credendi is not separated from the lex orandi; second, the level of ecclesial dogma where a historic community interprets for itself and for others the understanding of faith specific to its tradition; and third, the body of doctrines imposed by the magisterium as the rule of orthodoxy.

But the ambitions of these giants have been fueled by debt and masked by opaque ownership structures, creating uncertainty over their corporate governance, strategic motivations and financial health.

Not exact matches

Unregulated digital entities, created by just about anyone out of nothing, that assume some value denominated in fiat currency simple because they're being traded between anonymous people or bots whose only desire is to make prices go up, on unregulated opaque exchanges where everyone thinks price manipulation is good as long as it pushes up the price....

As the second blog post puts it — in the opaque and passive - aggressive language favored by the world's largest social network --» We anticipate that this update may cause reach and referral traffic to decline for some Pages.»

And worries «that the prices of Bitcoin and other digital tokens have been artificially propped up by a widely used exchange called Bitfinex, which has a checkered history of hacks and opaque business practices,» the New York Times reported.

Gottlieb suggested that this opaque structure ultimately leads to higher costs by thwarting competition, and argued for broader adoption of «biosimilar» drugs to bring down drug prices.

Still, it's never so opaque to keep you from getting by.

The anonymity that makes Bitcoin a darling of libertarians — along with opaque property - seizure laws hated by those same libertarians — makes it virtually impossible for the public to follow the digital money.

Blockchain technology could also increase investor confidence in products whose underlying assets are opaque or where property rights are made uncertain by the role of central authorities, the report says.

Despite rising criticism of social media companies and growing scrutiny by elected officials, the trade in fake followers has remained largely opaque.

Opaque budgeting methods and financial reports in Canada's major cities baffle councilors and taxpayers, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute.

Then there was the promise that these trillions of opaque derivative contracts were going to come into the sunshine by being forced onto regulated exchanges.

The tech crash was characterised by «new era valuation methodologies», while the Global Financial Crisis saw exponential growth in «dis - intermediated opaque structured products».

Although companies have been quick to talk about the benefits of tax reform — most expect their tax rates to drop by 6 to 7 percentage points — many have been opaque about how they intend to use those savings.

Cryptocurrencies, being highly transparent, trustless, and antifragile, will have a lot of resilience and appeal in this scenario, especially if the collapse was caused in part by the qualities of sovereign currencies (opaque, centralized, controlled) that cryptocurrencies reject.

Securities - based loans (SBLs)-- or «shadow margin» — are often not disclosed by financial firms, meaning totals remain opaque.

Plan providers don't make this easy by providing fee disclosures that are 15 to 45 pages long and use very opaque language in how this information is relayed.

The bail - out, first requested in June 2012, was delayed partly because of concerns expressed by eurozone states, notably Germany, that its financial sector was opaque, thus aiding money laundering.

By this stage, Calvin appears to have accepted something of the agenda of the Reformation» Calvin scholars have spilled much ink over a tantalizingly opaque passage in one of Calvin's later writings, which speaks of his undergoing a «sudden conversion» at some unspecified date and place.

And that is by no means Hamann at his most opaque.

The church becomes opaque to the source of its power by obscuring or by manipulating phenomena for its own purposes.

Alister McGrath confesses that he is «verbally defeated by Frei's prose, which is the most opaque I have ever been obliged to wrestle with.»

Equally opaque philosophically is the definition adopted by the widely promoted June 1998 conference in Berkeley, California called «Science and the Spiritual Quest.»

Check for doneness by cutting into one of the cutlets to see if it's opaque in the center, or by checking the temperature of one of the cutlets with an instant - read thermometer (the chicken should be 165ºF or higher in the center).

Nut milk is made by blending nuts in water — the nuts break down and yield their creaminess and fattiness to the water, coloring it an opaque white.

The uncertainty and confusion over share - trading by directors and price sensitive information was shown earlier this month when the chief executive of Mineral Resources, Chris Ellison, bought shares two days after an opaque announcement.

During our stay, clouds hung heavy over the sky, releasing large, white flakes by the hour, enclosing the mountain with an opaque fog.

A rich, dark cherry in color, this nearly opaque wine opens with a depth of aromas, led by blackberry pie, cinnamon and cola.

The scallops should still be slightly translucent in the center — if they are opaque throughout, they will likely be overcooked by the time you serve them.

Recall Star Wars: Obi - Wan trains the young Luke Skywalker to trust what he feels by making him wear an opaque visor while fending off laser blasts.

Everything became sort of opaqued by water streaming down my goggles.