The reports, which the Vatican has vehemently refuted, touch on some of the most vexing issues of Benedict's nearly eight-year reign, including a new round of accusations of child sexual abuse by priests and international criticism of the Vatican Bank's opaque record-keeping.
Many countries have opaque public records on executions, and the researchers are sometimes able to provide only minimum numbers or estimates.
As the process unfolds, it has become complicated by opaque property records in which it is sometimes impossible to determine ownership.
With transparent walls, they come with four-poster beds, bathrooms (opaque walls), telescopes, record players, armchairs and coffee machines (finnlough.com; from £175 per night B&B for two) and are set in the woods on the shores of Lough Erne.
Eggs with reddish eye-spots were recorded as developing live eggs, while white opaque eggs were recorded as dead.
The wartime government, to avoid giving enemies information about valuable targets, deliberately kept its transportation records opaque.
Its decision-making is often opaque, and its record-keeping on landmark-designation requests is so spotty that staff members are uncertain how many it rejects in a given year.
For China, whose leaders have no qualms with benefiting from economic opportunities in countries with distasteful human rights records, opaque decision-making has bred mistrust amongst its regional neighbors, who fear China's intolerance of political pluralism may spill over into its international relations.
Agents are required to maintain records of their kills, but critics say those records are opaque and probably inaccurate.
Sleep sessions were acquired immediately after behavioral sessions in a sleep chamber with opaque walls within the recording room.
