If we withhold or obscure the truth, we get self-protective falsehoods in return.
If we are lucky, the regional "process" will afford American forces a fig-leaf behind we might obscure our strategic defeat.
Particularly egregious has been the Obama administration's determined effort to obscure whether we are even at war and with whom.
The flaws we discuss are not obscure or esoteric they are well known pitfalls in the design of clinical trials and experiments on expertise.
If you expect the American people to support this war, we can no longer obscure, out of a misplaced sense of political correctness, what makes our enemies tick.
Yes, we may have missed some obscure fact pattern.
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The facts are sufficiently clear, however, that we must begin to question the judgment, if not the motivations, of those at home who persist in trying to obscure the central threat we face from the totalitarian political ideology known as Islamofascism.
There certainly are ones which are complex or obscure, or even stories we consider downright loony.
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We then had to find some other obscure message board thread to describe exactly how to reformat the player after which, playing Napster To Go tracks finally worked (we had to re-transfer all of the music files after the reformat, of course).
We tell lies of omission, lies that obscure facts, and lies that are blatant misrepresentations of the truth.
By these measures, Indiana which we dubbed the "Gumball Machines" to obscure its identity was the clear favorite to win the tournament.
Those debates, however, obscure the more obvious point: We should be turning our attention -- and should have turned it long ago -- away from oil and toward greener options.
While we have partial answers to some of these and related questions, the fact that we spend tens of billions researching all sorts of obscure things within universities but only have the foggiest ideas about the answers to questions such as I raised above is, I would submit, a scandal.
In our reporting, we stumbled upon a scene from the DDT film on an obscure Web page.
We need her in our life, and not as some obscure University Professor.
No amount of spinning by Senator Hagel in anticipation of Thursday's hearing must be allowed to obscure his own, decades-long insistence that we must engage with the Islamists who are in the vanguard of that global jihadist threat.
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For example, terms like "man-caused disasters, " "oversees contingency operations, " "isolated extremists" have been coined to obscure, rather than illuminate, the fact that we are under assault by Muslims who adhere to the supremacist program and ideology that authoritative Islam calls Shariah.
And we think that the more we are making sure that banks aren't competing by how obscure their fine print is, but rather competing on the basis of the quality of their service and the terms of their loans, the better off consumers are going to be, and ultimately the better off banks are going to be as well.
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Eager to make money and produce the next best thing, we're no doubt aware that knowing the Supreme Court justices and obscure Thoreau quotes might make us seem intelligent, but this knowledge won't help us make payroll or write the next innovative software application.
Amidst the calls from bears to melt your grandparents down for their gold fillings and the proclamations of the bulls who will latch onto any obscure survey to announce a V-shaped recovery, what if we simply did nothing?
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We had to reformat the internal drive completely, and had to hunt down some obscure instructions to help us do so.
We collected many of the best-known names, but also some more-obscure labels.
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We all tend to focus on certain salient aspects of a problem, and these can obscure other aspects, which may be essential to consider.
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Ok, then what about the code that enables video call support in OS 3.2 or that protected engineering prototype we saw just one day before launch showing a cutout at precisely the same spot so as to not obscure whatever was underneath?
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It is one thing if Jim Baker and his unaccountable gang have convinced themselves and irresponsible politicians on both sides of the aisle that we must "be willing to negotiate with our enemies" in order to secure the political fig leaf needed to obscure our surrender in Iraq.
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