Like its neighbours, Thailand suffers from an unhealthy combination of patronage and opaque business activities.
"I believe the opaque bags will still be a first for Wales, " said a council spokesman.
Despite five centuries of scholarly attention, the precise meaning of sheets such as this remains opaque.
The government's opaque accounting makes it impossible to know how it has used the money.
The idea that an opaque government might come to dominate global capitalism is unappealing.
And when the institution in question is opaque and hierarchical, that risk only becomes greater.
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The place got a mark for being opaque and none if it was transparent.
Pricing of healthcare services is notoriously opaque and it is difficult to shop around.
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The second, called electrochromic, requires voltage to switch the transparency from clear to opaque.
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At once busy and opaque, the mix concerned the two dancers as bare-chested partners and individuals.
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Massachusetts Financial Services, an asset manager, has banned soft-dollar commissions (opaque kickbacks from brokers).
We digested that opaque bit of input and elected to stay with what we had.
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In their eyes, the current system is one that is opaque, discriminatory and unjust.
Its scrambling system promises to be even more opaque to wiretaps than existing encryption techniques.
The perspective that one gets of pitching from the outside is filtered and opaque.
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As is the case with any trading company, its operations were opaque by design.
Some countries are more financially opaque, some are harder to get to, some are both.
The judgments were somewhat opaque and never above a reference to Tacitus or Virgil.
Though initially subtle and opaque, Obamacare creates the framework to take America down this road.
Opaque investment partnerships not unlike those used by Enron in America were supposedly used to acquire stakes.
Glaze a building and make the glass transparent in the wintertime, opaque in the summer.
Asma al-Assad was "a comprehensible and reasonable individual in an opaque regime, " Tabler wrote.
Not surprising, with increased transparency, supposed outperformance related to formerly opaque investments tends to evaporate.
Neutrals and opaque nude polishes are perfect for long wear and are effortless in application.
Lastly, you'll need a pair of sheer or opaque tights or hold-ups, depending on your preference.
He was also curious to see what went on inside these notoriously opaque institutions.
Because banks are opaque, he says, their corporate governance is all the more important.
He serves them in opaque mugs, eliminating one clue about what they might be.
Only her skis and Telemark boots and bindings protruded from the thick, opaque ice.
This beer has a big, rich chocolate-colored head, and pours an attractive opaque black.
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