More worryingly, the furore has largely masked the disgraceful proposal to take away student nurses' bursaries.
Katrina did, but the human costs of the devastation largely masked the effects on wildlife and ecosystems.
For the rest of the 16th century this disparity was still largely masked by the fluctuating, but generally increasing, shipments of silver from the New World.
Still, analysts pointed out that the negative picture largely masked the fact that the struggling industry remained on a slow path to recovery, in large part because of a rebound in business travel.
But at wind speeds of about 40 meters per second (144 km/hr), the streaks of foam and spray blown from whitecap-topped waves merged to produce whiteout conditions, largely masking the ocean's surface.
Although other pigments could have been present in Microraptor's feathers, they would have been largely masked by black pigments, rendering the creature crowlike in appearance (main image) except for that long, bony tail and lengthy feathers on its legs.
The sound of the pagoda's gong was largely masked by that of automatic weapons fire, exploding grenades, battering rams, shattering glass and human screaming.
It is also possible that the role of individual USA300 leukotoxins in animal infection models is largely masked by their redundancy with the other two-component leukocidins or other cytolytic molecules such as phenol-soluble modulins (PSMs) [39].
The overall result suggests that expression differences caused by gene copy-number changes are largely masked in heterozygotes.
Therefore, the signals of circulating cell-free DNA from cancer cells could be largely masked by the signals of cell-free DNA from myeloid and lymphoid cells.
