Sentences with phrase «opaque ways of»

They wanted an opaque way of encouraging the purchase of weak banks by stronger banks.

«It does not describe a practice but a general being in the context,» which is an opaque way of saying that the only perspectives contemporary art allows for are those created by history and current events — artists who want to be considered relevant aren't allowed to be introspective.

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Over the next few months, when Musk was asked about it, he said that when he had time he might publish an open - source version of this Hyperloop plan for others to work on, and meanwhile he offered more opaque clues as to what his idea was («a cross between a Concorde and a rail gun and an air - hockey table... if they had a three - way and had a baby somehow»), which inspired lots of online speculation, much of it deeply skeptical.

Lilly, Sanofi and Novo Nordisk have been accused in a lawsuit of exploiting the country's opaque drug - pricing system in a way that benefits themselves and the intermediaries known as pharmacy benefit managers.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Massachusetts, accuses the companies of exploiting the country's opaque drug - pricing system in a way that benefits themselves and the intermediaries known as pharmacy benefit managers.

But I wondered how the other employees made their way through the long, opaque list of funds, lacking even a description of their investment objective.

Since the major financial institutions which comprise the financial system are still way overleveraged and opaque (in fact with record amounts of debt and derivatives at present), such a break in confidence could happen abruptly and without warning.»

Whitehead is indeed convinced that he is able to formulate and interpret, both cosmologically and in a way appropriate to the theory of religion, that which early wisdom has already expressed in paradoxes or in a way which is still intellectually opaque: The enhancement of self - experience and world - experience happens, in a strict sense, at the same time; the path to the self leads to the disclosure of the world; those who really comprehend the world find themselves...

it's no good saying he moves in mysterious ways or that he has purposes that are opaque to us because that kind of evasion is predicate on the assumption that the person espousing this knows more than I do about the supernatural but I haven't yet met anyone that does have a private line to the creator and neither have you.

It came out like taffy, never turned opaque and while I did taste some of it and the flavor wagood, there's no way you could call it fudge.

Obviously we have no way of judging the validity of an internal poll whose methodology is opaque, and the Clintonistas have every incentive to get out a positive message at this critical point in their candidate's political life (Update: they're denying it).

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.

Closing the LLC loophole is the single most impactful way to get big, opaque money out of politics,» said Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon.

Which is pretty much the ad hoc, opaque way in which the governor is approaching the serious business of investigating possible wrongdoing in his own administration.

Detecting astrophysical neutrinos would offer an unprecedented way of studying comic objects across vast distances, similar to the way infrared light allows us to peer into opaque cosmic dust clouds to see stars forming.

The meeting — hosted by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) here, and sponsored by HHMI; ASAPbio, a group that promotes the use of life sciences preprints; and the London - based Wellcome Trust — drew more than 100 participants interested in catalyzing efforts to improve the vetting of manuscripts and exploring ways to open up what many called an excessively opaque and slow system of peer review.

Although glass with the nanostructures appears opaque, tests showed that most of the scattered light makes its way through the glass.

«About the only way to get these really long eclipse times is with an extended disc of opaque material.

The hat is rated with a sun protection factor of UPF 50 because of the opaque material and the way that it is constructed.

The color was opaque, the only way to get that metallic look to be bold was to apply a lot of coats.

Either way, Crowe's carefully nuanced, almost opaque performance is the visual and thematic centerpiece of «The Insider.»

Internal spaces like hallways, classrooms, and cafeterias — typically separated from each other by opaque structures like walls and doorways — have given way to open layouts that emphasize glass partitions and uninterrupted lines of sight, borrowing from cutting - edge work environments like Google's and Apple's campuses.

«A new tolerance for the Muslim headscarf and an intolerance of alcohol point the way towards a more fiercely Islamist future, partly inspired by the opaque Fethullah Gulen movement, which seems strongly represented in the police.»

I have common interests, as a Macmillan author, and a view of the industry from that side, which is frankly pretty opaque even from within the sausage factory, and in many ways deeply counterintuitive to outside observers.

But it's only take a tiny slice of data that's favorable to indie publishing (ebooks on Amazon, an ebook publisher that controls the way the data is scraped and is otherwise opaque).

Unlike with the stock market's «flash crash,» few old - school traders blamed the algos for the fall, although some did blame them for the end of a way of life that aided both transparency and liquidity in an often opaque market.

Having thus bailed out Goldman, and other US and foreign investment banks that were due payments from AIG, the malodor of aiding investment banks in an opaque way is something the Treasury wants to lose.

Alas, Immortal: Unchained tries so very hard to not just be like, but outright be Dark Souls with guns and a coat of sci - fi paint, down to the typical strafe and dodge based gameplay, the save system, the lack of pause, the RPG elements, the opaque delivery of the «story» and the level design that there simply isn't any better way to convey what this game is like.

These interjections within the gallery's white cube serve as a way in which the artist rebuilds and elevates these fractured stories, now sturdily supported with weighted columns of opaque color.

The color blue, for example, whether cobalt, cerulean, or ultramarine, takes on individual characteristics in Schuchard's expression on each canvas and becomes watery, dense, fragmented, opaque or translucent, depending on the artist's filter, or way of seeing.

The way light rakes across the monochrome folds of their shallow relief implies an illusory space, but also reads like an opaque plaster cast of a window.

Artist Statement I use paint in a variety of ways: semitransparent, opaque, gestural and flat.

JS: One of the things that struck me the most in your exhibition at Hollis Taggart is the variation across each painting, the way forms are approached with different kinds of marks — thinner and thicker areas, translucent and opaque.

A group exhibition exploring the unacknowledged currency of data accrued through analysis of the quantified self, that buys participation through the protocols of platform capitalism, the repurposing of which derives value in a myriad opaque ways.

Yet, like so much else in Warhol's life and work, the apparent invariably gives way to something deeper and darker — a sense of meaning and intent that is disconcertingly opaque.

The eyes of the figures, peeking out of their various masks (or anti-peeking, in the case of Papi Shampoo, who has mirrors in his sockets) are opaque in a way that feels like refusal, maybe a refusal to acknowledge to the amorphous «Landlord» but more likely a refusal to acknowledge vulnerability of any sort.

In this transformation of the «intimate proportions» of the woman's body into landscape - like abstract composition, de Kooning pursued a strategy similar to that of his friend Franz Kline, who used an opaque projector to enlarge details of his own urban genre paintings into the mural - scale, black - and - white abstractions that became his signature achievement» (J. Zilczer, A Way of Living: The Art of Willem de Kooning, New York, 2014, p. 132).

Momin adds, «By physically moving through and mapping the very landscape that has been so fantasized, dreamed about, and capitalized upon in a breadth of positive and negative ways, the artists had the opportunity to address their work to the idea in a variety of ways — opaque or direct, tangential or political, macro and micro.»

Fields of opaque color and transparent layers draw attention to their own differences in the same way tiny momen...

The range of surfaces she employs encourage new ways of looking at the spaces they are in, with transparent polythene forming thin veils to look through, suspended opaque paper forms creating holes or windows and shiny cellophane refracting the light.

But your reply is opaque gibberish, and goes a long way to explaining why your paper was rejected by the reviewers — your lack of understanding of science.

Well, this is OT to sensitivity, but if there is a proper way to get out of the scientific insiders» group, which is opaque to a large majority of the population and tends to be too strict about ways of presenting real information, I'd like to know what it is.

So I am guessing that in an opaque substance the radiative transmission happens but it also gets stopped very quickly — in the same way that it is stopped at the surface of the opaque substance.

It's a bit late to start being «transparent», now that it is clear that he has gone out of his way to be opaque.

A similar situation is believed to take place in the outer layer of the Sun, in the opaque convective zone, where convection is the main mode of energy transfer (which by the way subsequently play a role in solar activity).

C. in the upper Throposphere, much of it will have some kind of «Up Down» circuit high up in the Troposphere, i.e. rise — freeze — sink (drop)-- melt, warm — rise — freeze — etc. etc. — And yes, — it should be equally opaque all the way.

Facetted control of search results are transparent in their function and shouldn't behave in an unexpected way, which is in contrast with algorithms which are generally proprietary and opaque to the user.

And Coverfox offers a Simple, Easy, Confident way of buying that perfect term life insurance plan in a world full of opaque choices.

But a review of the company's finances shows the extent of the opaque ways Chinese firms can use to raise money — and how failures could ripple through the system.

Anyone who currently owns UK residential property through a company incorporated outside the UK or other opaque vehicle will be liable to IHT on the value of such UK property in the same way as UK domiciled individuals.