At least a dozen junior Saudi diplomats, for instance, spent much of the past year training in New York for the expected widened duties of council membership.The Kremlinesque opacity of decision-making among the Saudi royal family's elders adds extra spin to the predictable sandstorm of speculation as to the real reasons for the sudden about-face.
The recent Dubai World debacle has exposed the opacity of decision-making at the highest levels of government.
Ultimately, it concludes that engineers should deploy black-box software services or components "only with extraordinary caution and ethical care," given the opacity of their decision making process and the difficulty in inspecting or validating these results.
The promise to make the setting of fares transparent addresses concerns of the assembly over the opacity of TfL decisions which, since its formation, have been made in the same way that Schroedinger decided the fate of his cat.
Still, the Kremlin-like opacity of his decision-making — his own evident paranoia, sharpened by years in exile during Saddam Hussein's rule — have made some of his decisions appear capricious and contradictory.
One of the book's chapter's focuses on communications, and the opacity of the central banking decision making process.
As there are no reliable indirect tests to prognosticate the final vision outcome in presence of significant media opacity, the decision for primary enucleation or evisceration in recently injured eyes with severe media opacity is difficult to predict at the outset.
"At a time when out-of-pocket payments for health care are increasing, and the growing number of 'consumer-directed' high-deductible health plans put more pressure on patients to make cost-efficient health care decisions, the opacity of health care pricing is increasingly concerning," the study authors wrote.
2 At a time when out-of-pocket payments for healthcare are increasing, 3 and the growing number of 'consumer-directed' high deductible health plans put more pressure on patients to make cost-efficient healthcare decisions, 4 5 the opacity of healthcare pricing is increasingly concerning.
While the book was severly lacking in economic theory and flirted too closely with conspiracy theories over historical analysis it leveled legitimate criticisms about the structure of the European Union and the opacity with which decisions that affect millions of people are made.
Given the opacity of its political system and penchant for behind-the-scenes decision-making, subtle but important signals in Beijing often get lost in transmission.
