Sentences with phrase «of obfuscating»

In the publishing industry, the purpose of an obfuscating pseudonym is to make it difficult or impossible to track down the real person (the publisher acting as the real person's agent).

His latest heap of obfuscating pedantry @ 308 has been swept away and the ground duly cleansed many times before.

Had you given a straight answer instead of obfuscating then your meaning might have been clear.

He plays Nick Naylor, a high - powered and high - paid V.P. at the Institute of Tobacco Studies, which was founded by the tobacco companies and dedicated to the fine art of obfuscating the downside of cigarettes.

High - concept in the basest definition of the term, the film would fall apart with a sigh if it weren't held together, however tenuously, by jump - cuts, zooms, slo - mo — the whole kitchen sink of obfuscating choices courtesy an artist trying way too hard to be au courant by imitating a style of film that hasn't been fresh since around the time that Tarantino hit the scene.

I'd like to defang those words instead of obfuscating them.

His hearty chuckle belies his formal German diction and physicist's habit of obfuscating with numbers.

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

At the end of the day, when stripped of its obfuscating, hideous rags and laid bare for all to see, the concept at hand is typical wealth hating.

Mark, I clearly and definitively state my position which beats your steaming piles of obfuscated bull sh!t, every time..

have you heard of obfuscated code, longer, more complex code does not make better code, usually shorter, more precise code is wanted and is optimized

The blurred effect of the obfuscated paint, dragged and smeared by the rag, retained a compelling immediacy that Wool embraced, having effectively combined the element of chance with the gesture of the artist's hand.

Not exact matches

Pornhub's statement says that the currency allows for anonymous transactions «by obfuscating the IP address and geolocation of its users so that they are untraceable.»

Instead of sending an honest public health message — our game is dangerous, we're trying to make things safer, but play at your own peril — the NFL obfuscates its way around safety.

Asian Americans and the issue of affirmative action have long been used to drive a wedge between communities of color and obfuscate the real purpose of the program, which brings opportunity to students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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.»

Grubbs responded to the complaint by characterizing Browder's OFAC filing as an attempt to obfuscate Russia's side of the story and slamming the wealthy investor as «a billionaire tax exile.»

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

The scapegoaters additionally obfuscate the issue by promoting an incorrect interpretation of the H - 1B statute.

The explicit details of the capital structure of a company are typically obfuscated from the average employee.

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.

The extent to which InvestmentCO's activities overlap with those of Alden and its affiliates has been purposefully obfuscated.»

Nor am I sure how «the practice obfuscates the meaning of a valuation, which can become dangerous down the road because private investors aren't taking the same risks a public - market shareholder would.»

Many Fed watchers now complain that good intentions have devolved into a cacophony of often - contradictory statements that do more to obfuscate than to clarify.

She understands the level of malinvestment, mispricing and lack of price discovery as the unintended consequences of repressive and obfuscating monetary policies of central banks.

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!

The company says Uber obfuscated the existence of a piece of lidar technology at an April 12 hearing.

Bytecoin gives users that additional layer of security and anonymity by obfuscating the transaction addresses of senders and recipients of BCN.

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:

They just realize that they have to obfuscate their religious leanings if they have any hope of wedging themselves into Science curriculum.

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.

When are you going to grow that set of balls and stop obfuscating?

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:

Abuse exists, but decades and decades of hiding it, moving around pedophile priests, obfuscating, and stonewalling is the sin OF THE CHURCH, not of the individual priests who perpetrated the abusof hiding it, moving around pedophile priests, obfuscating, and stonewalling is the sin OF THE CHURCH, not of the individual priests who perpetrated the abusOF THE CHURCH, not of the individual priests who perpetrated the abusof the individual priests who perpetrated the abuse.

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.

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.

The stark realities are obfuscated, sometimes deliberately, by much talk about «prolonging death» by the imposition of new medical technologies.

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.

Phase 1 of the atheist tri-polar shift (see youtube video for atheist tri-polar shift): Jill: «TheCapitalist, don't obfuscate the primary prenuptials with rasberries.

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.

They have obfuscated and dragged their feet, pointing to all kinds of untrue reasons and trying to shrug off the blame.

You are like all other religious zealots... your intransigence and lack of critical thought obfuscates your ability to discriminate between fact and fiction.

But re-reading Ezekiel 16:49, which explains the sin Sodom committed, it seems the whole point of this article must be obfuscated somehow?

I believe we are doing good by helping people escape the obfuscating fog of religious superst.itions.

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».

Long lists of human rights, while they may sometimes be well intended, only obfuscate the question and distract us from the work at hand.

No doubt these two candidates will dodge the questions, and obfuscate their replies with a load of double speak... as do most hypocrites.

While not downplaying the importance of personal regeneration, the need for radical discipleship, or the call to the building - up of the church, I believe such emphases tend to obfuscate a genuine, Biblically centered social ethic.

Such a truncated view of propositions obfuscates their primary role as guiding creativity.