David Cameron's talk of "ongoing discussion", and Merkel's remark that there had been no talk of "technicalities" hardly masked the fact that the chancellor is still unwilling to give the prime minister what he wants: treaty changes to repatriate powers to Britain, in exchange for the treaty changes Merkel needs to achieve fiscal union within the eurozone.
Hearing, on N.P.R., that masked Taliban gunmen gunned down a 14-year-old girl for publicly speaking out about her desire for an education, had that effect.
In Oaxaca's capital, masked protesters emptied a vehicle of ballots, boxes and voting tables and burned the material in the main square.
Both incidents heightened an awareness of the sport's inherent dangers, masked in recent years by massive strides in technology and on-board safety, but now exposed by the violence of Ratzenberger 's collision as his Simtek struck a concrete retaining wall at close to 200mph.
So when the property bubbles that masked the weaknesses of so many economies burst, the crisis set in with a vengeance.
But you be the judge: In the immediate wake of the Sept. 11 attack, in which four Americans including Ambassador Chris Stevens were killed, Obama administration officials said protests outside the compound over an anti-Islamic video produced in California had preceded or somehow masked the assault.
She believes that stark inequalities in the learning environments of different schools are emerging, often masked by the fact that schools like hers get good results and are popular in the local community.
He also called the legitimacy of many of Ukraine's governing bodies "doubtful", adding: "There is no one to deal with there [in Ukraine]; masked and armed people are no partners for dialogue".
"It's gonna be yours before the night's over if you don't cooperate with us," Young OG recalled a masked officer telling him.
There were chants of 'If you don't pay your taxes, we'll shut you down' … Megaphones were used … Some protesters were masked.
Vergara and Garcia told the Guardian that masked police police officers "kidnapped" them from a Humboldt Park deli; held them and three others in a Homan Square "cage" without booking or access to counsel for eight to nine hours; and released four of them that evening without charge after Vergara threatened to tell a civil rights attorney what the police had done.
