Moreover, the ministry's rules governing financial firms are notoriously opaque, and subject to bureaucratic whim; often they seem calculated not so much to regulate firms but to protect them.Japan's Big Bang is supposed to change all this.
Many experienced observers wonder whether intentions are always the best to begin with.Making auditors' work more difficult are the judgment calls tied to marking assets to market, particularly when the asset involved is property and the markets are either opaque or subject to easy manipulation by local Chinese municipalities.
Samples (containing approx 5×106 CFU/ml bacteria) were then centrifuged at 18,000× g for 3 min to pellet the bacteria, and aliqouts of the supernatant fractions of sessile opaque samples subjected to proteinase K treatment.
The opaque mixture was subjected to several freeze thaw cycles in liquid nitrogen prior to passing through a mini-extruder (Avanti Polar lipids) fitted with a 200 nm polycarbonate (PC) membrane.
One of the many remarkable things about the Ed Koch story is that this highly successful public figure known for his transparency of opinion — that is what made him Ed Koch — felt the need to be so opaque on this one subject.
The shape-shifting songs leap between frantic spoken interludes, thumping art-rock hybrids, and intrepid jazz numbers that tackle subjects as opaque as theology and as knotted as beauty.
During LD, after the initial TMS measurements under standard room lighting conditions (530 lux), ambient luminance was reduced to a level just sufficient for the investigator to perform TMS; subjects wore opaque goggles and reported complete absence of perceived light.
"Two possible explanations for the difference in numbers relate to problems with the estimation methods (which are rather opaque and have been subjected to interference by protestors), and to the possibility of illegal killing.
Vision was blocked by having subjects wear opaque glasses.
In a second line of experiments, food is hidden in transparent or opaque tubes and the subjects are allowed to look into the tubes before they make their choice [14], [16], [17].
