Sentence examples for opaque state from inspiring English sources

The best way to sustain that is not to cede control of oil and gas fields to bureaucratic, inefficient and opaque state energy firms.

As governor, he was working to open one of the nation's most opaque state budgets and reform one of the most unfair campaign financing systems.

As the new law stands, foreign NGOs will have to be approved by an opaque state committee, a measure that may discourage foreign NGOs from engaging in Egypt.

More than three decades of rapid economic growth in a deeply networked society within a politically opaque state have produced flourishing mafias, said Kerry Brown, head of the Asia Program at Chatham House, a research organization in London.

The opaque state lobby registers, together with the Federal register, are littered with former government staffers, high ranking political advisors and former politicians whose experience is now being put to good use by the resources and energy majors.

And this would sink the Republican convention into a morass of opaque state roll calls, bartering, behind-the-scenes deals and pressure applied to delegates for Romney to secure the official nomination.

Billions disappear from the accounts of the opaque state-owned oil company.

France is not alone in taking advantage of the opaque state-aid rules.

Japan Post repays the favour by buying government-backed bonds, which finance a range of opaque, state-supported companies.

Senior administration officials said that the Treasury Department's office that enforces sanctions would restrict American commerce with the country's armed forces or corporations closely linked to them in what is still an opaque, state-managed economy.

Too much money is chasing too few assets, analysts say, forcing oil producers to invest some of their revenue abroad and diversify their holdings, either through opaque state-owned investment funds or through direct private investments.