Is it earned by meritorious works or granted by the obscure operations of grace?
Hundreds of people around the country jumped on the bandwagon, turning the group from an obscure Long Island operation to one that operated nationwide.
In just a few years, Qwest has transformed itself from an obscure construction operation digging ditches for fiber optic cables into a muscular newcomer with a market value of more than $40 billion.
A few obscure cosmetic operations increased in 2009, despite their not-insignificant cost.
In some cases, if crews know that observers are aware of these ruses they either attempt to obscure their operations or destroy the observer's records.
For several years, regulators and prosecutors have been cracking down on obscure brokerage operations, sometimes known as boiler rooms, that manipulate initial offerings of small stocks by using various fraudulent practices to control how a stock trades.
He changed Caldera's name to SCO (the initials of the less obscure Santa Cruz Operations), and hired David Boies, a lawyer who had gained an international reputation by representing the American government against Microsoft, and then Al Gore in the hanging-chads episode in Florida in 2000.
Rolin (2009) points to the superior capacity of a feminist standpoint to reveal how power relations obscure their operations and effects, and enable inquirers to overcome these obstacles to understanding by empowering those subordinated by power relations (for example, by means of consciousness raising).
Indeed, Brussels theologians have already switched again from "flexibility" to the determinedly obscure "reinforced co-operation".
Unfortunately, Cole also possessed a world-class ability to get himself into world-class trouble, thanks to a series of regrettable incidents that would do much to obscure his slick operations on the field of play.
