Almost all of the skeletons are entirely disarticulated, obscuring our view of what occurred after death. |
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Yet, whilst making headline news, coverage of the scandal is aimed at obscuring any real understanding of the issues involved. |
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The calcite acts as a mask, obscuring the gold-bearing veins from the predominate ones that contain nothing. |
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Her feet kicked up ash with every step and soon there was a smoky haze obscuring her vision. |
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I leaned forward, so close to the silvered glass that my breath misted it slightly, partially obscuring my twin's mouth and nose. |
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However, it only resulted in the bed linen billowing up and temporarily obscuring his butler from his sleep-blurred sight. |
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A thin veil of fog had rolled in off the bay, obscuring his view and coating the area in a pale gray-white mist. |
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You can use this haze to advantage, but if it is obscuring your subject, you may need to place a filter over your SLR lens. |
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Trees can improve protection by obscuring assets and people, but they also screen perpetrators from view. |
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The first minister's lurch to populist authoritarianism is obscuring a success story, one in which law and order policies seem to be working. |
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He pulled a white hooded robe on and threw the cowl over his face, obscuring his features entirely. |
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This work illustrates her recent turn from appropriating photojournalistic images and portraits, toward obscuring the body. |
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The parotids were firm, nontender, and enlarged, especially the left side obscuring the mandibular angle. |
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However, hairs were also a problem in some cases, obscuring the epigynum and cheliceral teeth. |
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Light's bleaching glare may saturate the picture plane, obscuring tone, details and minute particulars. |
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With an occulting disk obscuring the Sun, an artificial eclipse would be produced. |
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The fetal head was high in the fundus and imaging was not easy with reverberations partially obscuring the proximal hemisphere. |
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Its pastry crust speaks to a diner of infinite potential, obscuring what's within and defying conventional conceptions of identity. |
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He noticed that there was a fog lifting and it was obscuring the moonlight. |
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As she dropped off to sleep, some of the boughs of the tree bent down and covered the entrance of hollow, obscuring her from view. |
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The block stamp was placed on the reverse of the DN to avoid obscuring clinical information on the face. |
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The obfuscatory information which this vested interest brigade put out has succeeded so far in obscuring the truth. |
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A planetary transit is like an eclipse of the Sun, with the inner planets Mercury or Venus becoming the obscuring objects, instead of the Moon. |
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The pitchy pigment's obscuring weight seems to bank rather than smother the glimmering coruscations. |
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The extra layer of repression, though, becomes a gauze obscuring the emotional beats of the story. |
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The majority of the head is infilled with an amorphous mineral deposit, obscuring the rest of the internal and ventral structures. |
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Instead I was confronted with a grimy-looking building with billboards covering the windows and obscuring the interior. |
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Rather than obscuring the line of separation between church and sport, the authorities would serve hockey well by understanding the distinction. |
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Another potential problem is thin, watery paint that runs under the leaf, obscuring its shape. |
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Billowing clouds of steam and smoke drifted and eddied, obscuring then revealing the tormented reddish rock of the opposite wall. |
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Dense black clouds were already obscuring the 15,000-foot peaks that loomed around us. |
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It was daylight, slightly cold and the sky was filled with clouds, partially obscuring the sun. |
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Early on in this deployment I walked past a sports field and noticed a cloud of dust obscuring the far end. |
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I feel panic rising in the back of my throat, urgency illuminating my cerebral cortex, and a dark cloud of bewilderment obscuring my vision. |
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Subtle surface markings and polar ice caps that would become prominent as there is no dust cloud obscuring the view. |
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His hair cascaded down his face, obscuring his eyes but allowing the slightest hint of a frown to peek through. |
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The visor of his cap was pulled low, obscuring most of his face, but his upturned collar gave him away. |
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If the anamorphosis produces the result of obscuring, prohibiting the frontal view of the work, the execution process requires the rigor of construction. |
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I'd never thought of myself as a plainsman, but those trees closed in on me, creeping ominously up from the side of the road and obscuring my view of the horizon. |
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Today the term rhetoric is generally used to refer only to the form of argumentation, often with the pejorative connotation that rhetoric is a means of obscuring the truth. |
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Things change for the second disk, where the static is pushed more prominently into the foreground, at times even obscuring or occluding the loop's march forward. |
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In a certain way, this is an occasion for optimism and good cheer because we are exhausting some of our store of demeritorious and obscuring karma. |
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The risk of obscuring the continuities and discontinuities within a historical period often comes up when one writes about a year coming to an end. |
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Whiteout conditions occur when natural sunlight is diffused by clouds or other obscuring phenomena such as fog, snow, or ice crystals. |
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There have been no instances of the practice of obscuring the vision of persons in police custody, a fortiori during interview. |
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The surface of the obscuring film is easy to clean and unsusceptible to scratching. |
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In addition, the topographer had to deal with terrain on the far sides of obscuring features. |
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Many things were said about that Accord for the purpose of creating misgivings about it or obscuring its true nature with smoke and mirrors. |
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An elasticized girdle, obscuring any outline or jiggle of the individual buttocks, was essential for everyday wear. |
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On the contrary, the best-known stockbreeder of the eighteenth century made a point of obscuring the descent of his prized bulls, rams, boars, and stallions. |
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Eclipse, in astronomy, complete or partial obscuring of a celestial body by another. |
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Motorists got hot under the collar when the indicator lenses misted, obscuring the view of the pressure reading. |
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In this context, the Committee would caution against policies that inadvertently end up obscuring true levels of unemployment. |
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The rows of pines obscuring the rocky vistas that they had once lovingly painted and the disappearance of the celebrated oaks infuriated the artists' colony. |
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This convivial mask he wears, along with his omnipresent flask, is obscuring a deep hurt stemming from his father. |
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This helped total reading to rise, obscuring a shift among the majority of readers away from paid products towards free ones, Mr Gentzkow found. |
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Madam Speaker, I understand the member's passion about this. But his passion is obscuring the reality and the facts from him. |
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This runs the risk of obscuring the strategic resource-allocation choices that need to be made. |
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Both indicated the presence of low stratus cloud and fog obscuring the terrain in precipitation. |
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By doing so you are obscuring the real conflict and the drama of the choices Europe is being called upon to make. |
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It can have various negative effects on the faithful, oftentimes obscuring the proclamation of Jesus Christ as Saviour. |
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Or maybe it is recessive towards another allele on the some locus, but still obscuring the effects of any allele in another locus. |
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A misplaced comma may be obscuring the meaning of this reference. |
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And when she stood up to autograph a huge blow-up of herself, a collective sigh went up, fogging the well-polished windows and obscuring the already misty view. |
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Her body was covered with a blanket when it was found inside a cavern of the ancient walls, obscuring it from view. |
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One need only stand in the aisle marked Produce to understand how the wan light obscuring the bruised fruit makes all of our decisions more difficult. |
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One of the wages of polarization is the obscuring of what once was broad common ground even on supposed culture war issues. |
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In this exhibition, the dominant color was the luminous green of the leafy vines that spread over many of his canvases, sometimes obscuring nearly everything else. |
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With the blood from his head injury obscuring his vision, Beharry managed to continue to control his vehicle, and forcefully reversed the Warrior out of the ambush area. |
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His charming little theme's heard throughout the movie, but the producers chose to impose somebody else's noisy pop tune on the credits, obscuring his very apropos theme. |
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The seemingly random splotches of bold color mimicked the appearance of tortoiseshell while simultaneously obscuring flaws still evident in the body and glaze of many pieces. |
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He could, theoretically, present himself as a model citizen who made a mistake while obscuring what the mistakes been. |
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The diagnosis of mass psychogenic illness shares many characteristics with sick building syndrome and other such illnesses, further obscuring the issue for physicians. |
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In this case, the rapid flow obviously was lying directly between the black hole and us, obscuring our view. |
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Because the sonnet's formal structure was so well defined, its popularity as a form risked obscuring the boundary between true art and simple workmanship. |
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None but the truly die-hard fans would have recognised me, slouched here with a black cheese-cutter cap pulled low over my face, sunglasses obscuring my eyes. |
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For the rest of the time, we basked in glorious sunshine and, in the evening, watched the sun dip below the western sea with just a few clouds obscuring its decline. |
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I strip away cobwebs of fascia obscuring the anatomical structures. |
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The poem begins along the right edge of a rice paper sheet next to a vertical strip of black and white photographs picturing Cha obscuring her face with her hands. |
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Along this line we find the Church's concern for the unborn, the most fragile, the most threatened by the selfishness of adults and by the obscuring of conscience. |
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On top of everything, when challenged, they immediately take refuge in pseudo-science obscuring the topic further. |
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Before Paul and Judy Andrews, the car's owners, were presented with the award, a pyrotechnics display went awry, obscuring the Mercedes and its owners in smoke. |
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The rail section had been significantly battered and smeared, obscuring most of the fracture details on the gauge side of the head and in the web area. |
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The latest technologies are capable of monitoring, intercepting and even obscuring any illicit content that is being displayed on a computer screen. |
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It is necessary to strike a balance between overburdening financial statements with excessive detail that may not assist users of financial statements and obscuring important information as a result of too much aggregation. |
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The structure of community-based circles or sentencing circles over-individualizes the conflict between a particular man and woman, and has the effect of obscuring the greater systemic factors at play. |
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I think the levy debate is obscuring the real problem. |
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Computerised system design should always provide for the retention of full audit trails to show all changes to the data without obscuring the original data. |
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Greater consideration requires to be given to the role of transit states in granting export certificates and obscuring the provenance of an object. |
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In the absence of moral points of reference, an unbridled greed for wealth and power takes over, obscuring any Gospel-based vision of social reality. |
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In Italy, Franco Zambonelli, a computer scientist, designed a cloak covered in lenses and projectors 100,000 per square metre that would simultaneously capture and project whatever the cloak is obscuring. |
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But as part of the cause of this great planetary shake-up, each of us can also be part of the solution, as we fight our own psychological battles and cast out the inner demons that are obscuring the light. |
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Again, the examples are not meant to be comprehensive but to illustrate the ways in which such justifications serve to deflect criticism by obscuring governments' intentions. |
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This is an apocryphal story to illustrate the dangers of dwelling on the detail of technical matters to the extent of obscuring the massive challenges to be faced. |
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In many studies, the presence of structural factors affecting women's and fetal health, such as poverty and poor nutrition, go unmeasured, further obscuring the effectiveness of the intervention on health outcomes. |
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Lombards and lardasses slitting their horses' throats, drinking the blood, the smoke from Saladin's camp obscuring the sun. |
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Properly distinguishing between Law and Gospel prevents the obscuring of the Gospel teaching of justification by grace through faith alone. |
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Yet the excellence of this institution is not everywhere reflected with equal brilliance, since polygamy, the plague of divorce, so-called free love and other disfigurements have an obscuring effect. |
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This conception has been criticized for obscuring the value elements in the identification of health needs, health interventions and health outocomes. |
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In this area, various phases of the Early Devonian South Nepisiguit River Plutonic Suite intrude rocks of both the Miramichi and Tobique zones, obscuring the contact in many places. |
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The Advanced Clarity option identifies the text and drawings in the foreground and produces a scan image that keeps the background from obscuring them. |
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Today, sunglasses function in a similar manner: they allow the wearer to see outwards while obscuring her eyes and gaze from the direct gaze of others. |
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By obscuring the relationship between money and prices, financial innovations have made it more difficult to interpret the information content of M1 for inflation. |
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The bright stems of the Cornus stand out against the apple-green flowers of the hellebore without obscuring them. |
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Simply by being the largest optical telescope ever placed above Earth's obscuring atmosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope has yielded spectacular images of cosmic grandeur. |
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He fell to the deck, a flap of torn skin obscuring his good eye. |
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