Sentences with phrase «obfuscation on»

The claims are «pure obfuscation on the part of the Clinton campaign,» Manafort said on ABCs «This Week.»

Will these changes lead to a shift in direction away from resistance and obfuscation on the challenge of climate change?

Roger Pielke Jr. has also joined Christy's obfuscation on extreme weather by attacking the testimony from Christoper Field on the subject, which he accomplished through a bait and switch misdirection strategy, misrepresenting what Field actually said and then attacking his built - up strawman.

Further responsibility for obfuscation on climate action can be placed on a multitude of mechanisms extending vastly beyond any individual, from the media to tensions between democracy, consumerism and globalisation.

Unfortunately, there are too many well - funded sources of obfuscation on these issue.

My favorite fact to take back to my team is that Kobo says they've fixed font obfuscation on their readers, so we don't have to remove font encryption on InDesign - generated books for them anymore -LRB-... which we usually learned about when our FXL books reflowed because of missing fonts, to disastrous results; see above).

But none of that excuses the Conservatives» failure to stand up to their own benefactor and their inability to see — despite many warnings — that obfuscation on this question would make matters worse for them in the end.

It sounds like there were limited other private encounters between the editor and the prime minister then, but there's a bit of obfuscation on both sides.

Such modelling demonstrates a carbon - pricing regime is manageable; the Canadian government's ongoing obfuscation on the subject isn't helpful.

Not exact matches

This anti-environmentalist tactic of countering critiques of industrial impacts on the planet with lies, obfuscation and defamation has a long history.

There was a lot of obfuscation in Facebook's announcement on Tuesday, but the bottom line is that the social - networking behemoth has short - circuited the way that ad blockers function, by removing all the indicators that tell ad - blocking software what is an ad and what isn't.

Coins employing obfuscation techniques or advanced cryptography, like Monero and ZCash, have more recently attempted to improve on Bitcoin's privacy model.

Regarding impact on Visa (V) and MasterCard (MA), Rawat does believe Amazon brings some risk of brand obfuscation, pricing pressure and yet another formidable payment wallet to contend with.

ECB President Mario Draghi's press conference on Thursday was a piece of obfuscation worthy of a teenager being interrogated by its parents.

Dinges deftly portrays the contradictory signals on human rights sent by the U.S — a willful obfuscation that allowed Pinochet and other dictators to continue the repression.

David Cameron's frustrating Europe obfuscation can be traced back to his other big crisis on the issue: abandoning the Tories» «cast - iron guarantee» over the Lisbon treaty referendum.

14:50 - Next Clegg goes on the offensive - he accuses Sadiq Khan of «procedural obfuscation» and says the history books aren't going to judge him especially kindly.

«There's a lot of obfuscation going on here,» agreed Legis.

Frustrated with the Cuomo administration's «obfuscation» Assemblyman Robin Schimminger is scheduling a hearing on the START - UP NY jobs program.

«Let's stop the diversions and obfuscation and start spending the resources the MTA has on the repairs and maintenance that will keep New Yorkers moving.»

Focusing the lasers of science on controversial subjects can cut through mythology, cultural biases, and obfuscation, and this month's cover story is no exception.

Encrypt and protect files with PHP encoding, encryption, obfuscation and licensing GUID Partition Table (GPT) is a standard for the layout of the partition table on a physical storage device used in a desktop or server PC, such as a hard

Revered in Japan, the rest of the world has never quite latched on to a series for which obfuscation is a calling card rather than an accident of design.

But unlike «Lady Macbeth,» which is often blatant in its defiance, My Cousin Rachel relies more on obfuscation and ambiguity, the titular character defying expectations both of her social role and the narrative.

If the states get to decide on their own what proficiency and college and career readiness looks like state - by - state then many of the same gimmicks and obfuscations we have now about student performance will persist, just alongside a new set of standards and with the illusion of commonality.

When adults throughout education actively educate students about the education system, including focusing on specific functions and outcomes, Meaningful Student Involvement can happen and the barrier of obfuscation can be overcome.

Drawing next to the screen, rather than on the screen itself as you would with the Apple Pencil, eliminates the problem of getting your hand in the way of what you're doing, both in terms of visual obfuscation and software palm rejection.

Michael Crichton had an essay on medical obfuscation published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1975.

Her recent group exhibitions include Obfuscation, James Fuentes LLC, New York (2010); Re-Accession: For Sale by Owner, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2009); and On from Here, Guild & Greyshkul, New York (2009).

For this installment I spoke on the telephone with Amir H. Fallah, whose work examines the conceits of portraiture, making its tropes the objects of manipulation and obfuscation.

In discussing the theme for the show in an exhibition release, Goleas points out that while the Oxford English Dictionary defines redact as meaning «to edit,» the term took on a broader depth of meaning in the 20th century, with myriad connotations of «obfuscation, disinformation, censorship and the almighty non-sequitur.»

Whether photographing secret military bases from fifty miles away, or imaging spy satellites in the heavens from earth, Paglen's photographs embody the limits of visibility, imposed both by the realities of physical distance and by informational obfuscation, that keep us as citizens from seeing and knowing these subjects on our own.

What is more, paintings made at about the same time - they might be separated by just a year or two - have, generally speaking, been hung close to each other so that we can see for ourselves quite how much obfuscation has gone on in the past, how many lies or half - truths the tellers of art's tale have been peddling.

So, it seems that after almost four years of stumbling, bumbling, fumbling, stonewalling and obfuscation, under the «leadership» of (the now lame - duck) Pachauri, the IPCC has been on a steady downhill path, and now the chickens are coming home to roost!

Michael Crichton had an essay on medical obfuscation published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1975.

(Even TCO's broken - record rants — if you can manage to decode them — are dead on the mark: tendentiousness & non-disaggregation lead to more obfuscation (from the outsider's view) than insight.)

This is one of the long - standing egregious deceptions of authority - abusing solar - terrestrial obfuscation artists who prey on dumb audience members who naively expect something that can be strictly ruled out by the simplest possible diagnostics that could be done by a good (great not even necessary) Stat 101 student.

Additionally primary responsibility for climate catastrophe falls on those who bear substantial responsibility by dint of economic positioning, scientific obfuscation, political patronage, political influence or political position as to the direction of our political - economic system, where that system effects our society's energy and land use and therefore climate impacts.

As of late, the North American climate action movement and outspoken climate scientists such as Michael Mann have focused on counteracting the massive propaganda and obfuscation campaign that has delayed climate action.

I would not rule out that there is some obfuscation going on, given the political intensity of the topic and the money involved in energy development and policy.

Robert Brown has used pages and pages of obfuscation to conceal the fact that all the molecules in his fully relaxed atmosphere have, on average, equal amounts of energy.

The result is not just an obfuscation of fact and deliberate effort to slow any progress on addressing the most pressing issue of our time, but an assault on democracy.

His technical publications included a study of host factors in pituitary chromophobe adenoma, in Metabolism, and an essay on medical obfuscation in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Yet it lives on because, like epicycles, obfuscation is always preferred by professors of mathematical physics (teaching equations without mechanisms seems more exciting for students, who want to believe that physics is a replacement for metaphysical religion).

It is ironic that a climate change denier should ask someone to be factual, when your entire thesis is based on deliberate misinformation and obfuscation and, apparently, it doesn't matter how many times your arguments are debunked; you people are seemingly incapable of doing anything other than repeating them.

Beware the potential for severe obfuscation by parties who do not understand observed aggregate constraints based on the laws of large numbers and conservation of angular momentum.

If sensible parties don't confront such (possibly accidental) obfuscation tactics head - on, the potential for enduring distortion is enormous since the pool of people with lucid, first - hand awareness of aggregate constraints is critically small.

Lindzen (1990); Kerr (1989b); «stuck with a role,» quoted Grossman (2001); Lindzen has been accused of obfuscation, taking extreme ideological positions, and unjust ad hominem attacks, see e.g., Gelbspan (1997), pp. 49 - 54, but the accusation that Lindzen has been in the pay of industry is based only on lecture fees that Lindzen received.

I put that onus on those who have sought to delay repairing global climate through a history of obfuscations and outright lies, and who have done all they could to stymie innovation in this country in clean alternative energies.

But I hope the bar's leniency doesn't lead other lawyers to jump on the bandwagon of obfuscation.