Sentence examples for obfuscate in from inspiring English sources

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Canadian bureaucrats require an additional skill: almost half the jobs in the 200,000-strong federal civil service demand someone who can obfuscate in two languages at once.

Each senator had five minutes and spend four and a half of those minutes talking, leaving the witnesses about 30 seconds to restate the obvious or obfuscate in yet another formulation.

Faced with a fresh challenge to its dominion, the gun lobby and its political representatives will do what they always do after gun massacres: delay and obfuscate in public while quietly wielding the threat of primary challenges to potential defectors.

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"And that was being obfuscated in the media frenzy".

Sometimes ("Obfuscated in Oblivion") it's just loud and committed enough to be good.

And just as tobacco companies fought, ignored, lied and obfuscated in the '60s (and, indeed, through the '90s), the pushers of sugar will do the same now.

Other proposals, like a request to cut federal payments to teaching hospitals, are hidden or obfuscated in the narrative part of the budget.

After months in which politicians have obfuscated in the name of loyalty and discipline, the man who wrote the party's manifesto believes his duty now lies in being brutally honest.

President Bush famously lumped North Korea and Iran together as two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, a post-9/11 sound bite that obfuscated, in the minds of many, the very different challenges they pose.

And yet when Miliband was questioned by Martha Kearney yesterday on borrowing, he contorted and obfuscated in an attempt to avoid saying that he would borrow more than the Tories (although as Hopi Sen has noted, there's a vast difference between what the Tories say they'll borrow and what they actually borrow).

The implication here, only obfuscated in the legal sense, is that Dropbox receives very few national security requests, and is irked that it has to report, in essence, 'no more than 250' when the actual number is likely far lower.

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