Sentences with phrase «obscure area of»

A friend of mine — new to his job as chief financial officer — received a bill from a law firm for advice in an obscure area of federal income tax law.

After the Florida recount caught the parties off guard, both parties have assembled legions of election law experts with experience litigating this sometimes obscure area of the law.

Don't just think of travel writing (profiled below); if you have even an obscure area of expertise, there's probably a publication about it (online, in print, or otherwise) with an active readership.

Because of that, they get too big to play in that obscure area of the market, making room for new investors.

Again he repeated the tactic of last week, in which he picks a relatively obscure area of policy and doesn't let go.

By selling asset classes at a market bottom or wagering too heavily in an obscure area of the market, investors can absolutely cause themselves permanent losses.

Do the aliens ever strike obscure areas of the world?

Using cameras mounted underneath the front of the Land Rover Discovery Vision concept, drivers will be able to see usually obscured areas of the vehicle projected directly onto a full - width head - up display along the bottom of the windshield.

Let's start with the camera angles, designed to obscure areas of the scene so as to make the appearance of enemies more surprising.

Influenced by her surroundings, the vibrant and obscure areas of Berlin, it's diverse urbanity, culture and clubbing scene, Snelling merges different absorbed impressions with peculiarities of the digital world, popular culture, news or politics, creating mundane and odd spaces.

These devices are concealed in obscured areas of the car, such as beneath a seat, under the dashboard or hidden in the control panel.

Not exact matches

Three children experienced a series of extraordinary visions in 1917 and were given a message that was both extraordinary and very ordinary: people must pray and do penance (that was the ordinary bit; these things are central to Catholic life, always have been and always must be) and failure to do this would ensure that evils would be spread by Russia across the world (an extraordinary statement to make to children living in an obscure corner of Portugal with limited access to any knowledge of Russia or indeed to anywhere else outside their local area).

I just think that was a timing throw, in all reality as the tackle gets pushed into the area which will obscure his throw he should have slid right and probably thrown it away since those plays usually don't have much in the way of contingencies.

With a potential price tag of $ 5 million, the proposed work could turn the obscure sliver of sand hidden behind the Outboard Marine Corp. complex into a popular recreational area, district officials said.

The area covered by the AR coated glass is clearly visible whereas the part of the cell covered with non-coated glass is obscured by reflections.

In August 2015, a dust storm blanketed large areas of seven Middle East nations in a haze of dust and sand thick enough to obscure them from satellite view.

But corona - graphs, which are installed on satellites and ground - based telescopes, are not ideal; to protect other instruments from potential damage caused by stray sunlight, they obscure an area slightly larger than the solar disk, blotting out a bit of the corona.

The multinational World Conservation Union, headquartered in Switzerland, is coordinating a project to create a massive transborder greenbelt that would eventually extend from the border of Russia and Finland southward through areas once obscured by the iron curtain: the old, rural East and West German border and parts of the former Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria.

With so many different areas of science and technology to choose from, Colan says the show opted to create episodes around hot - button issues including aviation, bionics and mobility and waste management as well as more obscure topics including regenerative medicine and brain - to - computer interfaces.

From the entry of the refined carbs to the first observed cases of heart attacks, high blood pressure, diabetes, etc. took 20 to 30 years which obscured the connection, but he found no exceptions to the pattern in hundreds of areas regardless of other changes going on.

Nevertheless, it is important to note that measuring PCSA allows a better estimate of muscle fiber specific tension in vivo than ACSA, as changes in pennation angle obscure the underlying force per unit area within the muscle (Morse et al. 2008).

► A man strips his clothes off (we see him fully nude from the back and from the front at a great distance showing his bare buttocks, back, legs, chest, and his genital area is obscured) while on the roof of a very tall building trying to find an arrow with a thread attached to it.

Though the visuals are impressive for static pictures, once you interact with the environment or look around, the lack of motion in the environment, how plants and water don't react to you, how draw distances are obscured by fog in almost every area and many sections are low visibility to the point of resembling Silent Hill makes even the graphics unimpressive at times.

Rather than relying only on a numerical index or an A-F grading system that would obscure the critical information needed for improvement, the measures above should be part of a dashboard that informs educators and the community about progress in each area and allows for analysis of what's working and where attention is needed.

This type of data is needed to accurately describe changes in diversity as students move between sectors because there is significant variation in student demographics at the school level that is often obscured when examining the issue at higher levels of aggregation (e.g. comparing charters as a group to surrounding school district or metropolitan area) and can complicate the drawing of valid inferences about the relationship between public school choice and racial sorting.

Leveraged loans or Senior Loans once an obscure area in Fixed Income space has seen real growth in assets inflow in last couple of years.

So the only option come June 1, 2015 when my loans go up to $ 2000 / month is to default which is going to cripple me even further... So what do we all do??? I'm now looking to talk to attorneys in various areas of the law as this is obscured and quite frankly fraudulent.

Removable plastic film or spray - based glass coatings can help to obscure your dog's view of areas that he observes and guards from within your house.

Covered in this website is the historical background to famous homes, communities, monuments, temples, revered shrines, old churches, quaint little museums located in obscure corners of the city, even roads, old hotels and the areas these hotels are in.

Each of the various locales have different tactics and map variations, such as pitfalls or dark areas where the map is obscured.

This mode is best played on the Souk map, which is a veritable warren of overhangs and tented areas especially designed to obscure predator and prey alike!

Furthermore the realism is to a point that too many leg kicks inflicted in a certain area of the leg will result in the fighter limping, bruising, not being able to kick with that leg and potentially having the fight stopped due to lack of movement, while facial expressions show signs of pain after taking a heavy punch or kick to any area of the face, body or legs and in reaction to blood obscuring their vision.

Menus that appear in front of you during things like talking to an NPC or shopping can sometimes be obscured by furniture or objects in the area.

The atmosphere of this game is much like you would expect; plenty of areas decorated with flesh eating zombies, frightened survivors, and other extremely obscure things.

Previously, the base of the spine was used as a player's primary node (i.e. the reference point that movements are measured relative to), but the... erm... lower back area is completely obscured by the sofa when players sit down.

Some of the puzzles are incredibly obscure, and it's frustrating to encounter an area where it's impossible to move forward without talking to the exact NPC at exactly the right time in order to unblock a barrier.

The Spin Jump can also be used to get rid of area - obscuring clouds, as well as fog produced by a new enemy, Foo, and activates the new Propeller Suit.

Recommended reading As with more immediately concerning areas of policy, the President Elect's attitude to arts funding remains obscure, but Randy Kennedy in the New York Times does not hold out high hopes for the sector.

When one of her works was included in a group show at Betty Parsons in March 1952, the New York Times critic Howard Devree compared it with Nell Blaine's «intricate upbuilding» in a scene suggestive of mountains, stating: «Perle Fine's canvas has reached the utmost in economy in two areas of bluish - green bordering a sweep of white as if the shadow of a cloud had all but obscured a landscape.»

While the portraits in his first series retain visual vestiges of Cleveland - area neighborhoods, the newer works are backgrounds of pure abstraction where implied memories swirl obscured.

A scattering of pornographic magazine cuttings showing photographs of bare buttocks and female genitalia cover parts of the yellow, amber, and gold background, with one prominently centered on the Virgin's face to obscure the nose area.

However, much of it remains obscured by time and the area's constant desire to look toward the future without first reflecting on its past.

The trailing, energetic lines, offset by areas deliberately obscured or «veiled,» create a graphic dance that alludes to, without aping, Abstract Expressionism — especially the work of Frank's fellow Dutch émigré Willem de Kooning.

Two concurrent Detroit - area exhibitions, Ann Mikolowski: Two Ways of Looking in a Mirror at Center Galleries at the College for Creative Studies (her alma mater) and Ann Mikolowski: Works on Paper at Paul Kotula Projects, recognize Mikolowski's contributions as a painter, which had been obscured by her collaborations and virtually left out of exhibitions celebrating the Alternative Press in 1990 and 1999.

On August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse will pass over the Pacific Northwest, creating partial eclipse conditions in parts of California from approximately 9 am — 12 noon (PST)-- the exact time of day when solar is typically ramping up - and obscuring the sun by up to 76 % in some areas of the state.

Composite imaging is an extremely useful tool for helping people understand the Earth — they allow researchers to capture certain features at higher resolution; reduce the obscuring effect of cloud coverage in certain areas; and overlay various data layers to help identify patterns and trends.

Although the pole was obscured by clouds, the images show how fractured the ice was near the pole and the many large patches of open water over much of the area.

And let's face it, the scattered scribblings of some obscure corner of some obscure corner of under 1.4 % of 2 % of the topic area is bound to not be anything like comprehensive.

For legal researchers this could help unearth a treasure trove of more obscure legal web sites with legal commentary or case summaries that would be excluded in either high profile cases or in subject areas where there is a lot of competing but irrelevant information.

• Collected supplemental mapping data including underground utilities, obscured areas, wetland boundaries, 3D scanning control, and confidence points for QA / QC of aerial mapping and 3D scanning for Portland, Oregon project.