Sentences with phrase «obfuscate on»

His declarations of concern have become comical in the face of everything the Howard Government has done to defer, delay, deny and obfuscate on the issue.

While we obfuscate on anthropogenic climate change and baulk at the cost of acting, entire countries and cultures are at stake.

The bottom line is that if the EPA had not dissembled on fuel switching and not obfuscated on fuel economy, more Senators might have voted for legislative measures, sponsored by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R - Alaska) in 2010 and Sen. James Inhofe (R - Okla.)

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It also claims the companies were aware of their impacts on climate and tried to obfuscate the truth.

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.

Soglin called the focus on the Beaver Dam facility a «lame excuse» that «obfuscates the issue.»

Sure, bad actors can still melt down stolen gold and obfuscate its origins, just not with gold tracked on a distributed ledger.

Separate from greedy self - serving religion, which is obfuscating any valid discussion on the scientifically high probability of an intelligence we humans could rightfully call «extra-terrestrial,» I would guess physicists would add God to your list of probability figures as follows:

And then I recognized that my academic language of distancing analysis and explanation also served to obfuscate the clear moral dimensions of life and the need to choose between right and wrong, and that on some issues analysis or explanation is itself a form of collusion.

Poverty research and policy development has since been dominated by economists, who attribute the same maximizing psychology to the poor as they do to stockbrokers on Wall Street, thus obfuscating the distinctive, defeated mentality of the ghetto.

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.»

I'd rather go on his radio show to show him just how obfuscated his stupidity truly is.

But Jesus» uncommon views were obfuscated by the more pedestrian conceptions of John [the Baptist], on the one side, and by the equally pedestrian views of the early Christian community, on the other.

This tends to obfuscate the teaching of the Church on disordered desire as a consequence of Original Sin, and also to relate all physical feelings to one generalised order of libido.

And this Potato Council bigwig's obfuscating of the issue, based on his opinion that «baked» fries somehow do not count as fries, is pathetic.

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.

Nestle went on its usual plan of obfuscating and lying, because Nestle is a corporation, and that is what corporations do.

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.

Distinguished Melaye with his high sense of drama has obfuscated the real issue by his actions, depending on who you believe, jumping out of a police to save his life from tear gas attack or attempting to escape from lawful police custody.

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.

Instead of displaying the full complement of incriminating proteins on the tumor cell's surface, the dog cancer displays just a few, obfuscating the invasion underway.

To date, much of the research on irradiation's effects on the cellular microenvironment has dealt with samples that included cells, obfuscating the irradiation's effect on just the ECM rather than the cell's internal machinery.

This is nothing but more shameful marketing from Duke personnel, obfuscating the situation with hand waving and double speak as was done for years as Baggerly and Coombes tried to shed light on this situation.

The story of our origin is further obfuscated by the fact that scientists have long had to rely on DNA extracted from extremely hard to find bones and teeth — often buried in inaccessible areas — to understand how we came to be and what our family trees look like.

Josh sees himself as heir to Leslie's «truth of experience» mantle (although he's not above reshooting his own questions to obfuscate his changing facial hair), while Jamie takes as read the manipulation of situations both on and off screen.

I thought I'd signed on to make a movie about defending the First Amendment, but it turned out we also walked into gender politics, harassment, and a chief executive [the president] who is hell - bent on obfuscating facts.

Schoenaerts, meanwhile, is enigmatic, Rickman trading on the Belgian star's relative anonymity to obfuscate his intentions.

He accepts the assignment and, before long, finds himself in a cascading tunnel of police investigations, shady characters and loose ends, all the while continuing to smoke pot which most assuredly obfuscates his own thinking on the case.

Just as Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy seek to tirelessly obfuscate Westworld's timeline, HBO did everything in its power to ensure Giancarlo Esposito's guest spot on Sunday's episode remained a secret.

But if David Lynch obfuscated his lament for Hollywood's lost souls with rabbit - hole dream logic, Refn would have to write in, well, neon letters to be clearer on his big message.

The screenplay goes on to turn this unfortunate talent into an especially bizarre bit of mixed messaging, employing Casey's trauma to obfuscate the reality of the meaning of Shyamalan's movie: that it has no meaning.

Then again, could be these are all red herring titles designed to obfuscate the true nature of the film, a cruel trick perpetrated on the endlessly - speculative Star Wars fanbase by noted trickster John Powell (note: John Powell does not have a reputation as a trickster), but we won't know for sure until Solo: A Star Wars Story opens on May 25th.

The competition's current emphasis on teacher evaluation obfuscates this important point.

«The crazy - quilt thing completely obfuscates the transparency that No Child Left Behind brought to bear,» said Margaret Spellings, who was education secretary under George W. Bush and now advises the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and others on education issues.

While turning on the display of hidden characters — a feature most word processors feature — might help in some cases, it obfuscates the actual text to the point that it becomes unreadable and you lose all sense of flow and white space.

But all this talk of tricks and illusions obfuscates a basic truth: remove the self and there is no «I» on whom a trick is being played, no one who is the subject of an illusion.

I had to download them to a device, locate them (4 files with obfuscated names in a private data directory that doesn't show up via USB connection on the Nexus 7), and find a way to get them off of the device.

That arc describes a smooth line of intent obfuscated, not always deliberately, by so many voices on the matter.

While Amazon likes to obfuscate this fact, the underlying black and white electronic ink display in the Paperwhite isn't made by Amazon, but its old partner (and holder of many patents on the technology) E Ink.

Well on the same day that the company — doing business as Fission Inc, perhaps to obfuscate its filings — applied for the Nook WiFi mark, it also sought protection on two other brands: «Nook Kids» and «Nook 2» / «Nook2.»

Policies for approval are somewhat obfuscated by the companies and also change widely on the market and by company.

The phrase «good corporate governance» is at best meaningless, and at worst a smoke screen to obfuscate what it really is: an attempt by management to operate on behalf of «stakeholders» (read «parties other than shareholders»), to adhere to the «triple bottom line,» «The Equator Principles,» and other similar ideas irrelevant to shareholders.

George Washington University professor Kyle Welch argues in a recent paper on PE accounting, «Private Equity's Diversification Illusion,» that portfolio managers «have incentives to obfuscate systematic risk and to choose investments that appear low - risk.»

But if Microsoft obfuscates all other places to make purchases on Windows 10 OS and beyond enough and the Windows Store takes off, it could mean the end of Windows as a truly open platform and that 20 or 30 percent of all sales will be given to Microsoft.

Why is the inner area of that continent obfuscated by a huge white circle on Google Earth?

In a game this intricate, it helps to know what you're doing, but the on - screen tutorials and in - game manual just obfuscate this.

While all of the pieces on view are frameless and mounted on aluminum and wood panel, many incorporate the idea of framing into the painting, obfuscating the traditional delineation of where things end and begin.

But while his lexicon is recognizable, it is enigmatic and incomprehensible as it repeats and creates a visual cacophony — a kind of buzzing of color and pattern — that camouflages and obfuscates the panels, photographs, walls, clothing and found paper on which he paints and draws.

The notion made for a good segue into her essay «The Islands of Evasion: Notes on International Art English» (2003), included in Social medium as a response to arguments — from Hito Steyerl, Martha Rosler, and others — regarding the obfuscating language used in e-flux press releases and other explanatory art texts.

He went on to state the question posed to the day's panel, which asked «whether skeuomorphism is good design, allowing users to relate to a concrete but outmoded object with which they're familiar or whether this is a nostalgic, superfluous layer that obfuscates the inner workings of the digital.»