Sentence examples for regime of secrecy from inspiring English sources

"The regime of secrecy on offshore processing means Australian taxpayers don't have the opportunity to judge [its] merits... they don't have all the facts on the table," he said.

The Australian government has faced heavy international criticism over its management of the Nauru detention centre, as well as the extraordinary regime of secrecy it has put in place over the facility.

The City has worked tirelessly to maintain its regime of secrecy.

President Obama's very public embrace of open government -- starting on his first full day in office -- has been a welcome change from the regime of secrecy enforced by the previous administration.

And what you see presiding over both sides of that idea is a regime of secrecy, which is problematic when you're talking about magazines, because you're talking about secrecy being used to preside over and rule over the free press that we're supposed to be the champions of.

"These NDAs are the keystone in this very corrosive regime of secrecy that both interferes with the public's ability to know what their local police departments are doing, but also interferes with defendants' due process rights in individual cases," said Nathan Wessler, an attorney with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy & Technology Project.

As a result of all this, we face a strangely contradictory future in which ever more draconian regimes of secrecy will confront the urge for ever greater transparency.

So in our age, considering the gigantism of the U.S. surveillance and intelligence apparatus and the secrets it holds, it's a given that the leak, too, will become more gigantic, that leaked documents will multiply in droves, and that resistance to regimes of secrecy and the invasion of private life that goes with them will also become more global.

The regime of official secrecy allows us – even when so much is known – not to face the facts.

Britain's friendly regime of offshore secrecy has tempted an extraordinary array of post-Soviet billionaires to descend on London, sometimes to the sound of gunfire.

Perhaps he was right: at any rate, the stigma gave him a good excuse for imposing a regime of strict secrecy on his household, thickening its already humid conservatoire atmosphere with toxic vapours of repression and duplicity, and instilling early habits of guardedness in his only child.