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Secretiveness

noun

The state or characteristic of being secretive.

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The MPs also attacked the secretiveness of the drafting of the text.Germany's Social Democratic party the junior partner in the coalition government is racked by bitter infighting over major labour market reforms and insiders fear the upheaval could destabilise the "grand coalition".

Scientific critics, meanwhile, have accused him of being too reductionist of pretending to pinpoint the soul in the brain in the same way that the Victorians played phrenology as a parlour game by feeling the contours of each others' skulls to find a bulge of secretiveness or a missing patch of generosity.Dr Beauregard does not, in fact, believe there is a neurological "God centre".

Abandoning its preference for secretiveness, China turned them into a huge media event, with live television coverage of the opening remarks and a press centre for hundreds of visiting journalists.This might help China's bid to be recognised as an important global player.

Eager as they are to buy art, Russians exhibit a desire for discretion that borders on secretiveness.

At their worst, they can be nitpicking and ambivalent, unable to see the wood for the trees.Mr Kerry marries flexibility of thought with secretiveness in decision-making.

Their knowledge of North Korea has been limited by its regime's secretiveness and their own past governments' reluctance to encourage fraternisation with communists.

Dr Kim held no public discussions of his views and when a Washington think-tank, the Centre for Global Development, tried to hold televised question-and-answer sessions for all the candidates, he did not attend, citing scheduling conflicts.The secretiveness drew the ire of some World Bank members.

For a start, the amount of oil exported is not known with great precision, thanks to OPEC's secretiveness about production capacity.

BESIDES huge profits, gleaming laboratories and secretiveness, all the top drug firms have old age in common.

As two regional councils those of Ottawa-Carleton, south of the river, and the Outaouais, north of it—have extended their sway over public transport, utilities and policing, and as municipalities on the southern side prepare for amalgamation into a single, larger Ottawa, the reason for the NCC's very existence is being questioned and its secretiveness criticized.

China will continue to brush aside Japan's longstanding complaints about the secretiveness of China's armed forces and the big annual increases in its budget.

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