Sentence examples for opaque institution from inspiring English sources

The study, released in May, described Venezuela's Banco Internacional de Desarrollo as an "opaque" institution with an all-Iranian board of trustees.

On the ground, this set-up creates a Truman Show feel – where the all-seeing watcher is the Lavasa Corporation, an opaque institution that wields power from the Town Hall.

Lehman was an opaque institution riddled with complex inconsistencies and, combined with its misleading accounting practices, there was no clear picture of who was truly exposed to a bankruptcy (everyone, as it turned out).

Yet despite the reregulation, they remain complex, opaque institutions in the business of taking enormous risks.

The group said the money "moved through largely unknown and opaque institutions".

He was also curious to see what went on inside these notoriously opaque institutions.

Like elsewhere in Asia, banks here are opaque institutions, which lend to dubious, often politically connected, clients.

It would be about those opaque institutions that invest their customers' money but do not tell them where it is invested or how their investments are funded.

With its weak management and opaque institutions — the church does not, for instance, have a designated media spokesperson — observers say the church has remained aloof from any state efforts to clean up corruption.

It is the one that official "Europe", and some local elites, resist with every sinew of their authoritarian mindset: a surge of democracy, orchestrated by Europeans seeking to regain control over their lives from unaccountable technocrats, complicit politicians and opaque institutions.

Much of their money either goes into or comes out of private foundations, those largely opaque institutions with huge endowments that, in the jargon-rich environment of philanthropy, differ from charities like the Red Cross in their tendency to engage in long-term "strategic grant-making".