Sentences with phrase «in obfuscating»

Yet both parties are complicit in pushing some of the worst legislation on this front — the grotesque farm bill and the bloated energy bill, for example — and in obfuscating the rest (see: Lieberman - Warner bill; and for some excellent ongoing coverage of the debate, head over to Grist and Climate Progress).

The track you are on now suggests that you are only interested in obfuscating the truth rather than revealing it.

The problem is that Internet trolls have put significant effort in obfuscating this simple issue.

[«The problem is that Internet trolls have put significant effort in obfuscating this simple issue.»]

What more perfect classroom is there for tutoring the intelligent layman to be skeptical of the «known laws of science» than the stream of stupidity wrapped in obfuscating words than the hockey stick of Mann and the screaming doom from Hansem's mouth?

As in many works from this period, such as Zwei Fiat, 1964 (Museum Frieder Burda, Baden - Baden), the movement of the figure is captured in the obfuscating sweep of the artist's brush.

In fact, the State has been complicit in obfuscating student performance by developing an Academic Indicator Dashboard that contributes to the fog of education.

When information is supplied as part of a survey, it is not subject to dispute by those who have an interest in obfuscating certain facts and emphasizing others.

So he wrote this paper in an obfuscated manner so it would pass the reviewers.

Finding the poem in the obfuscated C code you provide is certainly possible.

Now, why the GISS code had to be written in obfuscated Fortran is beyond me.

Not exact matches

Chilton said,» Unless this language is written to avoid it, this could blow a huge hole in the Volcker Rule and would obfuscate the intent of Congress and President Obama when the financial reform legislation became law in 2010.»

You may not incorporate Content into, or stream or retransmit the Content via, any hardware or software application or make the online services or any Content available via frames or in - line links, and you may not otherwise surround or obfuscate the Content or online services with any third party content, materials or branding.

Following the publication of a report in July 2017, North Korea's elites, some of the country's few citizens allowed on the Internet, have greatly altered their online behavior, and are now obfuscating their browsing activity, and have ditched US websites like Facebook or Instagram for alternative Chinese social networks.

Irony — yes, Brave — only if defined as, «I warned you... now I'm going to obfuscate» (punish), Happy — they aren't and I am, despite the drop in value of my investment CRICKETS — Priceless!

«In fact, black youth, who've been passionately advocating for gun control measures, have been demonized, obfuscated, and overlooked.

Jonathan Jacobson, founder of Highfields Capital Management, wrote in a recent letter to clients about why the increasing influence of quants is obfuscating market risk:

«Growth in corporate intrinsic value is often obfuscated by stock price movement, which does not appropriately track the accretion in business value.

This is one of the problems that often hinders dialogue with radical atheists (not sure you are one, but you did answer a question I posed to people who believe God is a fantasy)-- rather than offer a defense they will attack in such a way as to obfuscate the purpose of the original discussion.

In Orwell's dystopian novel, a totalitarian state maintains social control by obfuscating reality, using what the British author called «Newspeak» and «doublethink» to compel its subjects to acknowledge as true what they know is false.

don't defend it, obfuscate, engage in personal attacks, stereotype.

There is not a wisp of self - criticism in this wearily familiar complaint of adolescence coming upon its sunset years in unrelenting resentment that its «creativity» in destabilising, confusing, obfuscating and undercutting Catholic faith and life has not received uncritical parental approval.

If he made any public remarks in support of Christianity, that was because he was in public and would lie or obfuscate to appease a crowd at times.

There is truth in this, but one has to be careful not to obfuscate the merit of a question with the personality of the person asking it.

In defending the specialness of the American regime, Bercier also defends the particularity of any people or tradition that gets obfuscated by excessively abstract or universal categories of description; while he concedes that «the Logos is universal» he denies that this is a «universality that legitimizes any human claim to universal rule».

The net result is the Christian religions have obfuscated the spiritual truths hidden in the Bible as allegories often wrapped in an enigma.

This is all quite sweet, of course, but it does totally obfuscate one essential part of the Deluge account, namely, that God is not willing to tolerate human depravity indefinitely and that human evil will bring destruction upon nature and upon innocent bystanders as well as on the evildoers themselves — a message that might seem particularly appropriate in an age of terrorism and environmental pollution.»

And if you DO agree with Walsh, why are you obfuscating points of unity in preference for imagined conflict?

For example, are there ways in which such conventional contrasts as «theory / practice» or «academic / professional» or «objective / subjective» serve as much to obfuscate issues as to clarify them?

PETA tends to obfuscate the pet issue because «animal liberation» is understood to be a multi-generational project and targeting pet ownership would compromise the organization's ability to get donations from loving dog and cat owners who think they believe in animal rights.

It was the timing of that decision that further obfuscated the issue because when World Cup was closing in and his name was nearly cemented in the 23 man squad, he chose to move away from limelight and in doing so, had probably done an irreparable damage to his World Cup dreams.

In fact, the authors go so far as to deliberately obfuscate the increased neonatal death rate at homebirth.

Although GFI makes no attempt to obfuscate its own agenda as an activist evangelical Christian organization in its other, openly religious materials, parents who buy or are given the seemingly mainstream «Babywise» books have no way of knowing that the books» advice is based largely on GFI's own unique biblical interpretations.

Danielle, you ARE trying to obfuscate things by torturing the data and attempting to point to conclusions that have no basis in truth.

The victory registered by the complainant parties (temporary, since China can still appeal it) does not obfuscate the deeper issue, which is that what is needed in the medium and long term is a strategy to curb or eliminate this precarious dependency.

When Flanagan obfuscated we take over in November.

That just, in my opinion, obfuscates the process,» Paterson said.

After months in which politicians have obfuscated in the name of loyalty and discipline, the man who wrote the party's manifesto believes his duty now lies in being brutally honest.

«Every year, hundreds of donors give more money than is allowed by state law that has highest limits of any state capping donation size; scores of candidates fail to disclose large contributions received in the run - up to Election Day; thousands of filings obfuscate the identity of donors or the purpose of expenditures through the inclusion of incomplete or incorrect information; and dozens of incumbent lawmakers spend campaign funds for what reasonable people would unanimously agree are non-campaign reasons,» the report found.

However dictators conveniently forget that it's often far easier for foreign states to influence the local politics in non-transparent systems, as it's easier to obfuscate bribes to high level officials.

The aforementioned suit over a candidate's use of LLC money was settled out of court, so there hasn't yet been a clear test of what might be called the Sugarman Doctrine, which assumes underutilized power in the sections of election law prohibiting attempts to circumvent contribution limits and obfuscate the true source of campaign money.

Yet since then every other MP who has faced an allegation has denied, obfuscated or, in the case of Damian Green, clung on for eight weeks during an investigation into his conduct.

«Patently false statements and rumors about the immediate closure of LICH obfuscate the truth, which is SUNY's commitment to securing proposals to provide healthcare services in the community,» said Robert Bellafiore, spokesman for SUNY Downstate, which owns LICH, in an statement.

Yes, absolutely these words are used wrongly, and sometimes so used to obfuscate real ideological divisions, as Orwell pointed out in both his fiction and non-fiction.

Those that have obfuscated and literally lied about the fact that it was CMRR that sued the county when, in a display of leadership, Hein demanded the 24 year old lease requirements actually be complied with so rather than comply CMRR sued?

«Beginning in 2009 and continuing up to the filing of this complaint, the Debi Rose Campaign provided false and misleading documentation to the CFB in an effort to both obfuscate, and conceal, «in kind» campaign contributions, and coordinated campaign goods and services provided by various labor unions for which «fair market value» was neither paid, or accurately reported,» the complaint said.

We're responsible for conducting our own due diligence, but the onus also falls on institutions and those in positions of power not to obfuscate the negative.

Others have speculated that, by being involved in a clinical trial, patients in both arms of the trial received better care than they would otherwise have done, obfuscating any differences between the groups.

Hubble's services are still in tremendous demand, because it operates above the bulk of Earth's obfuscating atmosphere and so offers astronomers their clearest view of the distant universe.

One of the main objectives of this round is to test new image search capabilities that can analyze photos even when portions that might aid investigators — including traffickers» faces or a television screen in the background — are obfuscated.