Sentences with phrase «opaque process»

«I was doing some house - flipping on the side... and found the (funding) process to be very frustrating, filling out lots of applications and dealing with a sometimes opaque process,» Rodak says.

With such a vague and opaque process as therapy, how do you know it's working?

Many are in fact taking a dim view of this opaque process that is often filled with potential conflicts of interest.

Traditionally, communicating with the USPTO following the submission of a patent application was an opaque process.

The feds, of course, don't have any stats on who's applying or how anything happens in the absolutely opaque process of Federal Judicial Affairs Canada.

Why should we concern ourselves with a group whose members are chosen through an opaque process and proclaimed to be much better than non-members?

Many took exception at the opaque process for revising the statement.

The meanings of the gestures becomes amplified by the accumulation of lines, objects, color or images as they are gathered and reiterated over time, grounding the work in opaque process - driven rigor, despite the transparency, both in materiality and in concept.

Navigating the publishing industry can often seem like a difficult, opaque process.

20) Missouri: As the opaque process to privatize St. Louis Lambert International Airport moves forward, aldermen call for more transparency.

Furthermore, the mayor's fundamental claim about de-emphasizing high stakes testing is at odds with the annual press conferences the mayor and chancellor have held, trumpeting any NYC score increases on the state tests — even as year - over-year comparisons have been undermined by changes in test length, vendor, and protocol, along with an opaque process of setting cut (or passing) scores only after tests are graded and persistent high opt out percentages in schools, districts, and across the state.

For instance, I discuss the problem that IPCC chapter authors are able to recruit contributing authors (CAs) in an opaque process that does not ensure a diversity of views.

We appreciate attempts by the European consultancy Ecofys to investigate the opaque process of land acquisitions in developing countries by...

Disturbingly, these provisions emerged from a remarkably opaque process with little or no discussion of their policy objectives or analysis of data that would inform these important decisions.

But while Buffalo Billion II may provide more tangible investments into the area, Walter questioned why the funds were not lined out by project in the 2017 budget, and criticized the opaque process through which it was passed.

Investigators also found that the NYPD employed a «complex, opaque process» that may have «discounted» CCRB disciplinary recommendations, the IG said Monday.

But the plan would allow the governor to make changes through his own branch of government to the budget after it's approved, without input from the Legislature — worrying other officials that an already opaque process will be further hidden from public view.

«These laws will not adequately protect workers, leaving them to navigate an opaque process and in danger of retaliation,» several former female staffers who have accused lawmakers of sexual misconduct and harassment wrote on Friday.

Assemblyman Steve Englebright, chairman of the Environmental Committee, said he's «very disappointed» in what he said was an opaque process hastily decided last summer that ratepayers ultimately will have to finance.

The entirely opaque process, during which special interests and most legislators were kept in the dark, ended with a $ 131.8 billion deal.

As a journalist who writes about politics, I hope to shine a light on this opaque process for my readers.

Gillibrand in the interview touted her push to reform how sexual harassment allegations are handled in Congress, which she called a «horrible, opaque process» that protects the accused and is at the detriment of the victims.

But becoming a recognized expert is a mysterious and opaque process.

Social networks have assumed much of the same power, Bell and others have argued, though they typically use more opaque processes and have a greater focus on those profitable slices of publishing.

For technically - inclined readers, Standard Ebooks conform to a rigorous coding style, are completely open source, and are hosted on Github, so anyone can contribute corrections or improvements easily and directly without having to deal with baroque forums or opaque processes.

This is a major sea change which requires practical improvements to past opaque processes.

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Further, the new national security review process has introduced another opaque, time - consuming step that potential investors must endure.

Helix's founders think Casper has resonated so much with consumers because of how frustrating and opaque the mattress - buying process is.

While the net outcome of the investigation is likely to bring more transparency to a previously opaque pricing process, the ripple effects on other startups could be profound — pushing down valuations and funding rounds universally, financial experts say.

Nine out of 10 recent graduates report applying for jobs online — but almost all of them find the process disappointing and opaque

The soon - to - be-public company, Royalty Flow, is aiming to democratize the ability of anyone involved in intellectual property production to sell their ownership stakes for cash, a process that today is highly specialized and opaque:

«How long this process takes is opaque to the claimant,» said Dunn.

It also isn't necessarily a reckless decision for Tesla to oppose an opaque government process, Brauer suggested.

Backed with more than $ 45M from investors like Goldman Sachs, Pine Brook and Kleiner Perkins, the company is on a mission is to eliminate the inefficiencies of the mortgage industry and bring transparency to a traditionally opaque and confusing process.

SeedInvest endeavors to bring transparency and simplicity to what has historically been an opaque and complicated process.

An internal culture survey late last year found employees felt Uber's review process to be stressful and opaque, according to a current employee.

Its stock selection process is a bit opaque beyond the broad descriptions of its screens: fundamental, timeliness, valuation and risk.

It can be unnerving — the mortgage process can often seem opaque, and depending on your circumstances the timeline might be longer than you expected.

The highly complex (and often opaque) vocabulary of Whitehead's Process and Reality may obscure at times the foundational simplicity of his metaphysics.

Continue this process until the fillet is just opaque at its thickest part.

The process is pretty opaque and most of the useful things we've gleaned have come from other adoptive families, who have been through a similar process.

The special processing and silicone blend make Jobst Opaque easy to put on.

In any case, only an employee can question whether a tax code is correct so it is far more logical to continue the existing process than to apply codes that may be incorrect in the proposed opaque and arbitrary fashion.

Lawmakers met Monday afternoon for the start of the joint budget committee process — a meeting known in Albany as the «mothership» and initially held as a way of enhancing transparency in the opaque state budget process, but also a chance for lawmakers to lay out their public priorities in the talks.

The City Council funding process is so intentionally opaque, so jackstraw and piecemeal that it should not even be a surprise to find the Members from Kew Gardens or the Upper West Side sponsoring $ 75,000 allocations for the High Line.

The topic is shot through with legal jargon and can be rendered opaque through bureaucratic process; perhaps that's why the government has been able to push through these unconstitutional and self - serving proposals without much of a fight.

The danger, of course, is that his people see any setback (including this weekend's opaque Nevada delegate - selection process) as the triumph of outright evil.

This process is hidden behind an opaque prison system and misleading statements from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).

Unfortunately, the paper based process used by city agencies to respond to FOIL requests is slow, unreliable, expensive and opaque.

At that March meeting, SUNY Poly Provost William Durgin announced that, «due to issues that he can not discuss,» Dr. Haldar «was no longer the Interim Dean,» which was met with «general concern... about the opaque and abrupt process surrounding [Dr. Haldar's] departure,» the lawsuit states.