gray zone

He realized that there is a level between the human eye and the digital camera, which might be a gray zone that we previously ignored.

Management apparently was aware of this practice and allowed it: a prime example, I suspect, of a moral gray zone.

However, to date I have not found a single person unable to articulate in his or her work context a moral gray zone.

A: A key test of the morality of a gray zone is the extent to which it entails shared practices.

Many countries end up in a "gray zone, " with semi-functioning governments and powerful oligarchies.

'Do not leave issues in a gray zone, ' says Deepa Mohamed, group head of human resources at SMC Group, a financial services company.

Mr. Llewellyn is part of a wave of laboratory-adept European entrepreneurs who see gold in the gray zone between legal and illegal drugs.

When physicians are aware of these breaches, yet remain silent, we are in the midst of a moral gray zone.

For mail carriers, the moral gray zone might mean finishing duties early yet staying "on the clock" until the workday has officially ended.

That practice is a gray zone, but would hardly qualify as a moral one.

Defensiveness is in the gray zone between aggression and passiveness.

Semiconductor evaluation boards for microprocessors are in the gray zone, Stanvick said.

The ruling said that consumer-finance firms should refund interest payments on gray-zone loans, known in Japanese as kabarai.

Is there anything managers can do to improve a "negative" gray zone?

They live in a legal gray zone, with uncertain access to social services and schooling for their children.

In this way he has produced an ambiguous gray zone between reality and ideal, preventing his works from facing the real world directly.

The real problem here is that the standard language doesn't make much allowance for the kind of gray zone we're now in;