Sentence examples for opaque account from inspiring English sources

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Lyon testified on Renton's behalf as a character witness at his murder trial in 1979 and, almost 30 years later, published Like a Thief's Dream, a memoir of their long friendship that also includes Renton's somewhat opaque account of what happened on the night of the killing.

They were very different songs – the former a semi-cautionary tale about a record executive who retires to the country, peppered with references to Balzac, Prozac and Animal Farm and carried on a jovial gait, the latter a more lyrically opaque account of lost feelings and lingering ambition drawled over sludging guitars.

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Equatorial Guinea's elite hoards a fortune in opaque accounts.

Korean companies, for example, were known for their opaque accounts.

Unfortunately, the reporting systems documenting the real money are riddled with inconsistencies, opaque accounting and repackaging.

The government's opaque accounting makes it impossible to know how it has used the money.

However, some of the problems hidden by Enron's opaque accounting are only now emerging.

The Sun drops its paywall after £250m in losses, while the Times – with opaque accounting – claims its works.

The Pentagon's complex organization, opaque accounting and unbusinesslike purchasing habits also work against cost-effective spending.

It used opaque accounting methods that made it hard for investors to judge how well acquired companies were doing.

Shareholders, noting the lessons of Enron's collapse, have shown displeasure towards companies with opaque accounts by selling.

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