Sentences with phrase «obscure facts»

Let us not obscure facts in the present heated ideological debate.
You might even try dropping some more obscure facts about yourself and seeing if they have something to say about that.
It's time to test your knowledge of the 2016 F1 season with some questions about some of the more obscure facts and stats of the season.
If it starts to develop into a pattern, test them with some very obscure facts about yourself.
Like many get - to - know - you games, this game offers you a way to get to know obscure facts about friends or coworkers.
The response surprised state board of education member David Tufaro: «We did not envision the level of hostility to the point of obscuring the facts about the abysmal state of these 11 schools.»
In this context, I'm troubled by the misinformation on which Americans all - too - often base their political beliefs — from both the politicians who obscure facts as they compete for votes and the news outlets that aim to satisfy a partisan audience.
Our debates over pacifism often obscure the fact that both the supporter of war who kills and the conscientious objector who risks allowing defenseless people to be killed both share the same fundamental moral dilemma in spite of their different ways of solving it.
He has been a disaster, supporting legislation against our interests and obscuring the facts with his torrent of words.
Naomi Oreskes is a science historian, professor at the University of California, San Diego, and co-author (with Erik Conway) of «Merchants of Doubt,» a book that examined how a handful of scientists obscure the facts on a range of issues, including tobacco use and climate change.
The Senate Dems have done a wonderful job obscuring the fact most of the elected Dems.
Earlier this year, Mayor Bill de Blasio hailed the fact that high school graduation rates ticked up two percentage points, but this data point obscures the fact that college readiness in NYC high schools lags far behind graduation rates.
We teach now in classrooms where obscure facts can be readily accessed by a few taps on an iPhone.
What affirmative action opponents and the media tend to get wrong is this: These singular cases obscure the fact that 64 % of Asian American voters support affirmative action programs, of which they have been direct beneficiaries for the past 50 years, with affirmative action helping to significantly increase Asian representation at elite schools.
Also, the company has never obscured the fact that it uses plants instead of eggs.
Only Luke's careful literary art obscures the fact that he has combined the two ideas, though he retains more of the former than of the latter — a fact illuminated and explained by the hypothesis of Proto - Luke.
And, no media cover job will obscure the facts!!
The single paragraph devoted to Christian Immigrants by Eck in her much - noticed book A New Religious America obscures the fact that the new immigration is bringing about not so much a new diversity among American religions as diversity within America's majority religion.
Yet today our newspapers and telecasts successfully obscure the fact that similar approaches to the third world have continued throughout the century following Stanley's remarks and continue still, with even greater viciousness though greater subtlety.
Starting with Foucault's Pendulum (1988), each of his subsequent novels has been concocted from a tattered shred of an interesting idea, a hasty charcoal sketch of a plot, and a warehouse full of dazzlingly obscure facts and boringly obvious intertextual allusions.
Nonetheless this frame for government obscures the fact that civil authority is not necessarily tied to coercive power.
But Fitzgerald's framing of the developments obscures the fact that a generation of evangelical Christians paved the way for younger evangelicals like us to value of the life of the mind.
All of this almost obscures the fact that Giant is actually a pasta restaurant — a place that makes its own lasagna, gnocchi, pici, and something called «sortallini,» which is what it sounds like: «sort - of tortellini.»
It's been some time since the window closed, and we've had some time to really look at the window, without the cloud of transfer rage obscuring the facts.
The intense media focus on Sandusky and Paterno actually obscures the fact that this is a very common problem in youth sports.
This whole fight obscures the fact that the U.S.D.A.'s proposal is about helping kids eat a wide variety of vegetable and make lunches overall healthier....
Luanda failed to use its oil wealth to diversify its economy, and its rhetoric of state building and poverty alleviation obscured the fact that dos Santos» allies were benefiting massively from kickbacks and contracts generated by government investment.
New figures pointing to a rise in the number of self - employed women obscures the fact that a lot of women's enterprise in the UK is unglamorous, scarcely profitable and curbed by childcare responsibilities.
Yesterday, obscure fact fans, was the 98th anniversary of the first Parliament Act *.
The hyperbolic dueling press releases obscured the fact the changes wrought by this most recent extension of rent regulations are actually minor ones.
The weeks of speculation over Hilary Benn's sacking / non - sacking / neutering as shadow foreign secretary obscures the fact that Jeremy Corbyn clearly wants to make foreign policy a priority under his leadership.
Calculating average annual death rates for nonstate societies obscures the fact that death rates in eight of those societies included in the new study ranged from around 4 to 8 percent, compared with rates of no more than about 2.5 percent for World War I countries and no more than about 1.5 percent for World War II countries, Pinker says.
Though it's refreshing to see Langdon out of his element for once (even if the idea that he can remember obscure facts and not the word for «coffee» is as ridiculous as some of the film's major plot turns), it also defeats the purpose of going to see a Robert Langdon adventure.
But don't let these institutional vagaries obscure the fact that Hong is in the midst of one of the great cinematic winning streaks, a frenetic burst of creative energy that comes along only a few times in a generation.
The atrophy of memory obscures the fact that they simply weren't seen that way at the time.
Chester E. Finn Jr.'s tiresome and laborious attempt to show that there are significant differences between President Clinton's education policies and those of former President George Bush («related story, 01/25/95) merely obscures the fact that Mr. Clinton's program basically follows through on the policies set by Mr. Bush and the governors at their famous education summit held in September 1989 at Charlottesville, Va..
The rosy proclamation obscured the fact that racial achievement gaps were nearly as wide as when he entered the White House.
No one should confuse the ability to cite obscure facts like the three authors of Federalist Papers or the precise number of amendments to the U.S. Constitution with a rigorous education in civics and history.
The API obscures the fact that students at Wilbur had the potential for further growth that went unrealized.
She says using the terms interchangeably obscures the fact that educators are always assessing students.
These averages obscure the fact that there are school districts and states with significantly higher suspension rates.
For those hunting obscure facts, there are now nine bars in the BMW - signature «twin kidney grille,» instead of 10.
DAA obscures the fact that there's timing involved by allowing the investor to think and act like a buy - and - hold investor, while providing what historically have been reliable signals for exiting and re-entering the various asset classes.
The disasters in the past few years possibly obscure the fact that Argo has a v creditable investment record.
Warehouse club credit cards and the Amazon Prime card, for instance, are promoted as no - annual - fee cards, while obscuring the fact that the card is paired with a program that charges a large membership fee.
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