Sentence examples for are rather obscure from inspiring English sources

Compared to other subclades of hg U, both the phylogenetic structure and the ancestral origin of hg U7 are rather obscure.

But for what so far are rather obscure reasons — perhaps the struggling Iranian economy and mistrust toward Iranians that has been nurtured for centuries — it has been unable to extend its reach.

Iran has emerged empowered in Iraq over the last eight years, and it has a sympathetic Shiite-dominated government to show for it, but for what so far are rather obscure reasons, it has been unable to extend its reach.

Some are rather obscure, others are already hugely popular, and you have our permission to roll your eyes (and then your dice) at us if we've mentioned a game that, to you, represents the very peak of gaming obviousness.

But while it's unclear why the FBI needs to waste resources translating the things like "FWIW," some of them are rather obscure.

The full extent of this diversity is unknown, and therefore, the distribution, ecological role and responses to anthropogenic effects of microeukaryotes are rather obscure.

But this time the vote-counting was rather obscure.

Zeifman's specific beef with Clinton is rather obscure.

The record of Ferré's early years is rather obscure, although it seems likely that he was a law clerk.

In a program like Bobrow's or Raphael's, one has cases in which the skills required appear to be rather obscure but can nonetheless be analyzed.

Why is he the one to feel so passionately about a subject that until Snowden came along was considered by most people to be rather obscure, chipping away at it relentlessly since he started his blog in 2005?