The stock-clearing obscured a 0.7% gain in private consumption, the biggest quarterly increase in almost two years.The fourth quarter also looks encouraging for Germany.
It begins: Let me make clear every obscure truth, and remove the confusion of him who questions.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word "clarify" as "To free from darkness or gloom; to light up, illumine; to brighten" (in an appearance of the word dating to 1398) and "To make clear (an obscure subject)" (in a coinage from 1823), among other usages.
Well worth mentioning are his writings on issues of philosophical methodology ('On Clear and Obscure Philosophical Style,' 1919/20; 'Symbolomania and Pragmatophobia,' 1921).
The Qur'an is a complex scripture that contains both clear and obscure verses.
Beamed into Logan Hall via satellite was Dr Oktar Babuna, a spokesperson for Harun Yahya – founder of the controversial Turkish creationist movement that has often been accused of obscuring clear scientific thinking.
Our results indicate that these important paradigm design aspects that are theoretically unrelated to set switching per se should be balanced and controlled for in future experiments, so as not to obscure clear identification of brain regions truly engaged in mental set switching.
Crathorn thus suggests that we substitute for the Ockhamist definition of evident cognition his own definition: evident cognition is a manifest, clear, and not obscure cognition (q. 1, p. 69 70: notitia evidens est notitia manifesta, clara et non obscura), be it simple or complex, intuitive or abstractive.
The exact circumstances are not clear as the obscure event was variously portrayed as a Lithuanian provocation, a Polish provocation, or as an unfortunate accident.
On Friday, the Department of Agriculture quietly published a determination in the Federal Register that six Italian regions are now clear of an obscure malady of pigs called swine vesicular disease.
