Sentence examples for opaque- from inspiring English sources

Outside lawyers and accountants set up "ghost" networks of offshore companies, to make the transfers even more opaque.

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.

Rather than an opaque carapace, it offers continually changing glimpses through and across its surfaces that, as well as creating simple visual fascination, communicate a sense of its inner life.

But its makers, a group called Invisible Children, have been widely criticised by Ugandan journalists and other aid agencies for being self-promoting (the video spends much of its 28 minutes on its maker, Jason Russell and his young son, Gavin) and opaque about its use of funds – and for concentrating on an issue that has dramatically changed in recent years.

A spokesman said: "Energy companies don't seem to have got the message that their customers just won't accept opaque book-keeping and unexplained profits".

So I decided to ask for the applications and the basis of the government's choices – a process that is otherwise entirely opaque.

When the Chinese president-elect Xi Jinping went off the radar for nine days in September 2012, shortly before his accession, there were fewer jokes – China is too opaque a country to joke about – but no sense of impending crisis, despite the persistent rumours of instability within the Chinese communist party.

Add a teaspoon of honey and, once that's melted, tilt the pan slightly and repeatedly spoon the hot mixture over the egg until the top of the yolk is just opaque.

In the remainder of cases, the entire process is silent and opaque, with very little public process or understanding of delisting.

There seems to be an authoritarianism, things are impersonal and opaque".

While some of those symbols may be common and somewhat transparent – the cowrie shell or a mask, for instance – others are more opaque and open to multiple layers of interpretation.