Sentence examples for obscure differences from inspiring English sources

Another explanation for the similar group trajectories is that our measure detected perceptions of the adequacy of social support; if women's need for emotional support differs by group, this may obscure differences in actual social support.

Furthermore, the use of different laboratory methods in the assessment of HbA1c may obscure differences in the quality of diabetes care between the study cohorts [ 15].

Although our preceding whole-brain analyses are useful to detect differences in neural activity within common anatomical locations across participants (to the extent that brains can be matched on anatomy), they may obscure differences that are functionally common across participants, but expressed in anatomically different (or at least nonspatially overlapping) regions.

Theorists once sought general laws of wide applicability that tended to obscure differences among individuals.

Meatyard used masks to eliminate or obscure differences among the pictured individuals.

Even among ideologues, today the art of politics is defined as much by the ability to obscure differences with opponents as by spelling them out.

For Passover is not merely a celebration of the triumphant emancipation of the Hebrew slaves of old, it is also a time for contemplation of the basic human phenomena that seem to recur time and time again throughout history: The enslavement of one people by another, the price through which freedom is obtained and even the obscure difference between internal and external freedoms.

But this average obscures differences among workers at different skill and pay levels: real hourly wages fell for 70 percent of the wage distribution, with larger losses for those holding lower-wage jobs.

As the United States tries to hold together its alliance against terrorism, it is running into a tough, international version of Tip O'Neill's dictum that "all politics is local," and not just in the once-obscure differences between Pashtun tribesmen and Afghanistan's ethnic Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara minorities.

"In fact, it does the opposite, because it obscures differences that should be at the heart of our counterterrorism efforts".

This is because in most biophysical and structural biology approaches the molecules in solution are ensemble-averaged, obscuring differences between individual proteins or conformational states.