Sentence examples for opaque affairs from inspiring English sources

They can be opaque affairs, not to be recommended to non-specialists, but this one is worth the detour.

For years, court proceedings here have been opaque affairs, with verdicts often the result of behind-the-scenes deals.

Set to a variety of Gypsy and folk music, interspersed with Bach's Goldberg Variations, "Middlegame" evokes a Pina Bauschian world of male-female power games, bizarre encounters and opaque affairs of the heart.

Switzerland, after all, is the country in which both Fifa and the International Olympic Committee are headquartered, and whose adorably idiosyncratic financial infrastructure presumably does so much to assist them in managing their opaque affairs.

A grand jury is an opaque affair, consisting of a panel of citizens who decide whether the evidence presented makes it "more likely than not" that a crime was committed.

All say they will appeal.If Mr Malema's punishment is upheld, he may yet face criminal proceedings over his opaque business affairs.

Lord Ashcroft's opaque tax affairs have proved a thorn in the side of David Cameron's Conservative party, and the Panorama broadcast will ensure that the issue does not fade quietly as the peer formally steps down from the deputy chairmanship at a party meeting today.

Its financial affairs are opaque, to say the least.

The lack of a single tax authority governing all 27 E.U. members has long allowed Austria and Luxembourg, among other states, to make their tax affairs more opaque than other members of the bloc.

It is about an opaque and tragic love affair between a young Aboriginal man and woman in a remote community in Alice Springs: a bleak, faintly Beckettian landscape where life rolls on, uneventfully, but is then punctured with acts of brutality.

Instead he picked at his fingers, trying to keep his expression as opaque as his own financial affairs.