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Leaders can't even be sure how much municipalities are spending because local finances have become so murky.

Geez. I can peer into the murky depths of the future, and yet I always seem to get interrupted during bath time.

But then, three years later, the murky details of this operation surface on the front page of The New York Times.

Each dealer seems to have his own opaque pricing scheme, consumers have to endure endless haggling and the financing is murky at best.

The murky figure twisted into itself as the fire engulfed it. It hissed and howled. Bits of burning shadow fluttered off in the wind.

The murky air of Hell, which had been due to inspissated rays of nothingness, cleared as if by magic.

The distinction between spending and taxation is often murky and sometimes meaningless.

Now the relationship between our health and our employment is far more murky, and none of us seems to understand it at all.

Out, damned spot! Out, I say! Hell is murky. Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?

As is often the case in the murky world of foreign-labor recruiting, responsibility for this debacle is hard to pin down.

I sensed that of course we've had what's the gunfire on the rally, the circumstances run a little bit murky , but somebody has been killed.

But it's murky, and for Watts, this is a critical flaw, because precision matters when you're trying to explain highly social epidemics .

Corruption seems to be fairly common in the notoriously murky iron ore worldinChina, but only Rio's employees were targeted.

He'd given Mr. Shi hope and friendship (though details of the repayment plan were murky) and Mr. Shi had found a way to begin life anew.

Days later they were themselves murdered in murky circumstances in what purported to be one of the country's most secure jails.

Off to starboard a hand large enough to crush the boat was reaching up from the murky depths.

"It's potentially a reasonable solution out of a very murky situation, " said Ken West, partner at Perennial Growth Partners.

The Albanian project also sheds light on some murky questions about whom the bank recruits and co-operates with when it executes projects.

But it was a murky area of the law; the privacy rights of the CEO had to be weighed.

All the rest of Hell is filled with murky flame, and against this background Satan stands out in awful majesty.

Armedwith a phone and a computer, he made astonishing forays into murky globalbusinesses.

The mountain terrain around it helped concentrate Chongqing's murky air, he said, "but pollution from heavy industries was the key. "

The terms of these deals are often murky, reflecting their blurring of commercial and state interests.

Gas plants are cheap to build (though expensive to run), so they seem ideal for a market with a murky future, like Britain's.

For the chosen policy may generate a false sense of security even if it is inherently faulty, and more so when operation is murky.

Forgotten past. Time sunk in darkness. Deep down in murky water , I touch the soul that has wandered in eternity .

Without thorough-going reform, no amount of tinkering with the rules will get Mexico out of its murky political swamp.

Still, there may be other reasons why football, with its notoriously murky finances, feels more comfortable in the emerging economies.

The lotus leaf is held as a symbol of purity in many cultures due to its ability to remain clean in murky ponds.

An index tends to be based on some murky and often arbitrary 'social indicator' or a cocktail of several such indicators.

Though details were murky, both were widely surmised to be the work of Sunni Arab jihadists opposed to the governments in both countries.

Relationships among the standards are murky. Developers should also consider the vendor lock- in issue when choosing proprietary solution .

In January Mongolia, with a history of murky executions, was the latest to declare a moratorium.

But Mr Suleiman's own relations with senior military men are not always clear. Military politics is murky.

However, he had a falling out with his family - the details are murky - and has been estranged from them ever since.

There was a cold drizzle of rain; the atmosphere was murky; it was a melancholy day.

Cheating, lies, and murky off-sheet deals devastated and LED to the bankruptcy of one of the largest companies in the world.

14Gabra women in northern Kenya spend up to five hours a day carrying heavy jerry cans filled with murky water.

Invented by a European socialist who hated cars and came to deride his own creation, it has a murky future.

The excitement will only have grown with the abrupt resignation, in murky circumstances, of one of the candidates to succeed him.

Sending troops to Central Africa to meddle in an utterly murky conflict is a symptom that the interventionist addiction is growing worse.

A murky flickering lantern is hanging in the long venetian-screened corridor leading from the outer to the inner apartments.

In Indonesia's murky political system, regulations often emerge out of the blue, and can contradict existing ones.

But it warned against overestimating the lasting power of the recovery, noting a murky outlook for autos and shipbuilding.

A couple of years ago, an investment banker berated me for using the word "murky" to describe the world of structured finance.

The hopping procession's origins are murky -- it may have been adapted from pagan tradition -- but it has been going on since 1100.

It often seems especially murky during economic dips like the recent recession, when higher-priced products of all kinds tend to suffer.

We remind you of this because we KNOW how helpful! The sand is settling . . . the water is still a little murky . . . yet settling it is.

The children of some of China's leaders have amassed huge fortunes in murky ways.

Murky: More than deeply colored; lacking brightness, turbid and sometimes a bit swampy. Mainly a fault of red wines.

That may seem a long way from the calamity in the Gulf; but in the long run those other murky waters also need to be cleaned up.

The murky and quivering images show a very personal state of mind, a certain fascination for nocturnal strolling.

Meanwhile, accountability under the new law is murky, something experience and common sense have proven to be a significant pitfall.

HSBC, another carbon-neutral bank, finds the market for offsets so murky that it bypasses all brokers and devises its own projects.

The swimming pool was gross and murky, you couldn't see your own feet and the jacuzzi was as cold as ice!

In Morgantown the rooms were dim, the murky green or turquoise of pond water, and the doctors had been hurried, brisk with them, distracted.

In marine biology, however, both of these knowledge bases have been rather murky.

The science is still murky, and human studies are few and far from definitive.

Around that time, he said, the murky rules of doing business in China grew even murkier.

For a man who spent his formative years in the murky world of espionage, Vladimir Putin has proved quite a political showman.

Mr Stewart's claims raise one further question about this murky affair.

It was a great expanse of murky green; stone and water and beaches.

Some of the accusations undoubtedly stand up and shine a light on the often-murky business of Chinese science.

I am aware that the original post is a bit murky with definitions and could have been better written.

Circadian oscillators evolved long ago, but our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying circadian clocks remains murky.

The origins of the new fossil are a little murky having originally been purchased from a dealer.

Without the light of God's truth, the devil's counterfeit and deception is murky and hard to identify.

These two competition's victory, in the present, showed at least Liverpool already formerly in the season league tournament murky went out.

Oil companies often have to operate in difficult environments, be they the murky waters of the Gulf of Mexico or Russian politics.

The private wealth-management business has always been rather murky.

Milestones are a bit murky when you're delving into elements of enterprise architecture beyond design and IT.

What historiographical points have been particularly interesting, or contentious, or murky?

Which just goes to show that the issue of copyright in one of the world's most important consumer markets is still very murky indeed.

The authorities' failure so far to publish any findings on that murky matter is not reassuring.

Despite a murky history, Xe is doing brisk business with the U. S. government, including a $100 million contract with the CIA.

The river's flow ranges from murky white to a bright shade of orange and the waters are so viscous that they barely ripple in the breeze.

Critics worry about accountability of private military companies, since they operate in a murky legal environment.

His eyes were light green, the color of a murky pond under sunlight.

Still, the outlook remains murky on how the decision will affect the yen's exchange rate against the yuan and other currencies.

Time crawled by. It is murky darkness in the trees. I sobbed and dare not cry out for fear the monster would find me.

But that apart, it is an enjoyable yarn about a famous author's incongruous role in a murky, vitally important period of European history.

The Dead Sea is extremely murky, with the divers needing to feel for drops on the seafloor to locate the craters.

At the same time, the North is going through a murky, ill-understood succession crisis.

But narco U-boats were a murky legend of the depths, the drug-cartel version of the Loch Ness monster.

But just how these compounds might be acting on the nervous system's components, such as the hypothalamus, remained murky.

a murky red and yellow sky , and a rising mist from the seine , denoted the approach of darkness.

Not many bathing spas would choose to locate next to an electricity plant, let alone plunge visitors into the plant's murky waters.

She promises judicial and economic reform, more open government and an end to murky intermediaries in the gas trade with Russia.

Schaeffler and Porsche are in trouble after launching murky, ill-conceived takeovers involving derivatives and mountains of debt.

Management track records are tough to evaluate; ownership structures are often murky.

He has long promised to make the economy more energy efficient, but his plans in this area have always been somewhat murky.

Yes ah, the sea is such a murky wizard.

Most big media outlets have murky ownership, leaving their journalists vulnerable to outside pressure and influence-peddling.

I know that I'm getting into a semantically murky area by using the word "light" here.

There are only a limited number of tests that scientists can run on the rocks, and their results remain murky.

Exactly how the anti-Japanese protests were organized, and by whom, remained murky.

Above all, the ICC must navigate the murky waters of Kenyan politics, where alliances can change with unexpected speed.

There are nevertheless some brighter spots shinning through the murky water - continuing private consumption growth and subdued inflation.

Exactly what tasks Raymond Davis performed as a security contractor in Pakistan remain murky.

He moves to the next chamber, which is an aquarium filled with murky water.

In particular, he foresees juicy contracts from applying Wessex Water's skills at cleaning up rivers to the continent's murky waterways.

Only now is a murky story emerging of how far (about 1, 400km, or 870 miles) Israel was prepared to go.

Right now, the future and livelihoods of this community are as murky as the crude oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico.

Her murky relationship with Moses, the black laborer, led finally to her death.

All the more need for clarity on basic principles, therefore, rather than this murky quasi-nationalisation.

With murky data, and diplomats and foreign-aid staff restricted in where they may travel, not everyone agrees with the WFP's assessment.

In the murky supply chain of data, there is an even greater problem with national data-suppliers than with the international aggregators.

But some suggested the change was designed to clarify previously murky regulations and criteria for inclusion on the tax-exempt list.

"We are almost done with intrigues, unfair agreements, plots and murky games, " Ms Tymoshenko wrote in a recent article.

Learn to relax your body and mind. Learn not to daydream. Learn not to get involved in empty or murky matters.

Siddharth now races to uncover a murky tail of drug money, murder and deceit. . . because all the evidences point to him.

Unless I'm very much mistaken, Emma here is a bit anxious about her little brother's going to get on the murky world of politics.

In a murky global environment, 9. 1 per cent is not to be sniffed at.

Murky brown water grows to roof tops and lapped around the high-rises.

Of course down at the bottom of the lake the water is very dark and murky and you can't really see much.

A murky Strategic Planning Office that sat atop the Samsung family of companies and allocated resources was disbanded.

The western half of the sky had by now grown murky.

A water truck wet down the street to give life and sheen to those surfaces which otherwise would have been murky, featureless blacks.

The latter endeavor usually meant foraying into the murky domains of file-sharing and piracy services.

Although the details remain murky, Mr. Schmidt and other Google officials sketched a broad outline of their plans in recent interviews.

The US-Europe economic growth continues murky is financial crisis's root, but the loan crisis is financial crisis's blasting fuse.

Gauging competitiveness is a murky business, with no obvious benchmarks.

As with many of the deals, the money Mali might earn from the leases remains murky.

The reasons for the violence are murky. But the local fighters are themselves Taliban affiliates .

The circumstances of the raid are murky and may well remain that way despite an inquiry (see article).

It is cold and murky, with dangerous currents. In short, it is the perfect place to hide a monster from even the sharpest eyes of science.

Japan's back offices are often a mess, murky and impenetrable to foreigners.

He indicates has the confidence, the Vyse Fielder London Shop can undergo "this murkiness , next time murky and under next time murky" .

We know the macroeconomic effects of these reversals are not good, but the scope and exact types of influence remain murky.

Many value investors and market experts often look to Buffett for help in navigating the murky waters of investing.

Murky She had a decidedly murky past.

Another friend, a lawyer, told me how Gmail exists in a murky privacy area.

The next message is that if you want to find value in natural resources you have to be willing to fish in murky waters.

Under the current economic crisis's situation, the real estate market is at the murky condition.

Bankers say with the outlook for markets still murky, that intense spate of recruitment has passed.

Rather, they are a thick, murky fog of thoughts and feelings that slowly but steadily eclipse my optimism.

This week I've been submerged in the murky jungle waters of forthcoming real-time tiny-men commander, Men Of War: Vietnam.

Even its staunchest supporters would accept that its interests appear murky to outsiders.

Other vital Chinese statistics, like retail sales and unemployment, have also been murky.

Cars, trucks, trains and large ships lie swept into piles ashore or float in murky water like misshapen bath toys.

But inter-country adoptions happen in a fuzzy and sometimes murky world.

Our diving corps was developed because Paris's busy, murky waterways are accidents waiting to happen.

Yet, Jiang repeatedly uses the location as an outing to the murky world of genre-film making.

Perhaps it's a symbol of hope for a future that right now looks murky at best.

Its exposure to the murky credit-default swaps market alone is a notional $441 billion, enormous by anyone's standards.

We look forward to deep questions explored in simple terms, each piece content-rich without being murky.

On both sides of Chang'an Avenue, new skyscrapers and giant billboards stood under a murky sky.

That suggests that the sale became mired in the murky politics of both countries.

But the mountain air is still intoxicating, the pace of life is slow, and there are constant reminders of the region's murky past.

The tree impressed on me, because it has purified the murky waters of the air.

The charges were murky. He was convicted of co-operating with hostile states and insulting Islam.

The second-stage product should be quite murky. This is no problem, as it will wash out.

Next, they say, its loans are subsidised and its accounts murky.

Chuck's vast cricket plans don't pan out, and he vanishes under murky and ultimately grisly circumstances.

Opening an umbrella indoors is supposed to bring bad luck, though the origins of this belief are murky.

Many should be closed or consolidated, some have murky ownership.

Determining what areas are 'urban' or 'rural' can be murky.

The muddy political choices reflect the murky mood of the electorate.

But it turns out that much of the appeal is based on a murky understanding of the concept.

Alligators heal fast, rarely get infections, and survive in murky water on diseased food.

Houchin Stream irrigates more than 100 hectares of farmland, a town resident says, pointing toward its murky waters.

Welcome to the inner-sanctums of a murky underworld of murder, violence and solitude that is rarely seen by outsiders.

Though regulations are murky, Mr. Leung said consoles are 'essentially' banned in the country.

But strangely, valuations right now seem highest in murky stockmarkets like China's.

This week the saga took an even more troubling turn amid murky reports of illegal donations to Mr Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign.

He also wants to transform the Fed by making its murky decision making more transparent.

They are asked to report any sharp rise or fall in the water table or if water bubbles in the well, becomes murky or changes in taste.

But strangely, valuations right now seem highest in murky stock markets like China's.

Morgan Stanley has been particularly active in the murky and corrupt Chinese property market.

You can see we fill up the tank about halfway with murky water.

Many of the legal details in this murky tale (in which more may yet emerge) remain unclear.

Many details of the case, meanwhile, remain murky.

Beyond those broad strokes, though, details remain murky.

18000 years passed before this murky blend underwent any change, but in it Pan Gu was growing to maturity.

Of murky buildings; climb with me the steep.

A month later, one day, you're a murky sky over a dark earth sleep.

The jewel from the murky pool water: YES - when your partner is around you, you will flirt around with others.

For most of us, vendor references to services "in the cloud" dredge up an irrational fear of some murky unknown.

Sunday's violence in Banias has complicated an already murky picture.

In the popular mind they became huge beasts, invisibly inhabiting any murky stretch of water.

Towering mountains, vast plains, and murky swamps bring depth to World of Warcraft's landscape.

For an institution so famously hawkish on inflation, that is an indication of how murky the outlook has become.

The comparison gets a little murky from there.

However, a lot of the time it simply doesn't work and delivers murky pictures. Hollywood's bright new future literally isn't bright enough.

bad, dim, faint, feeble, murky, poor, uncertain, weak.

The reasons for the junta's sudden haste are typically murky.

But in the murky depths it is hard to get a clear picture.

But yesterday, a murky yellow haze swallowed many of the distant tower blocks.

He's all murky. There is little kids leaning on his leg, little ghosts flying around.

She gazed into the murky depths of the water.

It seems unlikely, though the Chinese league's murky regulations and practices mean it isn't impossible.

But America's long-term fiscal outlook remains murky .

Add this together and eutrophication is a major threat: the water is murky and oxygen levels decline to near zero below 20 metres.

Now the tint of innocent blood renders it murky and sinister.

Murky water, hazy sky and dull brown riverbanks .

The Quarren evolved deep in the murky oceans of Mon Calamari.

But there is also the possibility that recent developments are linked to the country's murky internal politics.

Once you're not just charging people straight up, you get into all these murky ethical things.

The mechanics of China's exchange-rate policy remain murky.

Her voice came from the murky darkness around her chair.

The Baidu results page is a pretty murky prospect.

Clear-headed for the first time in what seems days, the pilot almost immediately spies lights flashing in the murky distance.

"More alarming is the murky protectionism, or invisible protectionism, that is spreading, " Mr Ishige said.

Second, good trades often look murky at entry time.

In the murky world of hacking, their motives for disbanding are unclear.

Most importantly, she wants the government to demand transparency of price and quality from this notoriously murky industry.

King also agrees that a murky source is not automatically a corrupt one.

The water itself, which I remembered as being slightly peaty, was murky and didn't look at all well.

And India, with its history of murky and investor-unfriendly rules on infrastructure investment, has a record of disappointment.

The water in the river became murky and dirty after the typhoon.

Or you may choose to use the murky colours and paint a day that is not so positive.

Just leave my aura alone, okay? - Fine, be murky.

Marco Roscini, an expert on international law at the University of Westminster, says the legality of current drone strikes is murky.

Investment : the world situation " murky " how to retain foreign investment?

The air was murky with smoke.

What made you drag up that particular episode in my murky past?

The road ahead is murky indeed.

Faced with murky models, the best they can do is examine assumptions and ensure disclosure.

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Rain poured down from the murky skies.

The origins of Valentine's Day are murky.

We wanted to test the murky waters again.

Over 2000 Brisbane streets will sink below the murky waters while around 3, 000 businesses are facing financial ruin.

The government denies it strenuously. But the circumstances of Mr Saiful's accusation remain murky.

Stay murky body , I of here , only.

A bass heavy, murky and dark phone.

As to who owns the group itself, things get murky.

This morning, a murky haze swallowed many of the distant tower blocks.

But to some, Vale's new system appears, frankly, even more murky.

We hear them cry: "Lehman Brothers II! " And "we don't know what murky financial deals link banks. "

I don't have the strength to eat, head murky.

A boy swims in the murky waters of Manila Bay March 21, 2010.

That is more likely to lead to a sound outcome than the murky US alternative.

When bud vase water is murky.

But when I entered the murky world of Internet porn, my brain had found something it just wanted more and more of.

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.

Looking from the present domestic real estate murky phenomenon, our country economy recedes will possibly continue the long time.

This, he believes, would end the murky consensus politics that has made decision-making in Japan so hard.

In the dark wind of a murky night

This ugly, gelatinous, inedible fish now risks extinction thanks to humans trawling marine murky depths for lobster and crabs

A woman with a murky past

sharks lurking in the murky grey depths of the sea

The murky role of one of President Mwai Kibaki's closest new allies

Sending explosives through the post has a long and murky history

China's murky ownership rules China's murky ownership rules

Murky: Darkened or clouded with sediment

KEY 8 Monetary matters need not be murky. Follow the cash

Continued: Outlook is murky at best

Shows Every Color All Murky

The murky world of subsidised opera