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This was quite a feat as the intense light from the star normally obscures the subtle visual details necessary to distinguish a planet.

I believe the number of population of any ethnic group should not be a factor that obscures the origin. I explain some evidences.

In children under the age of two years the thymus often obscures the upper cardiovascular borders.

The use of this term obscures, I think, the real character of the causation, and has led to nothing but confusion.

That is, even the bottom window in a level obscures the top window of the next level down.

The setback was not uniform around the world, however, resulting in an overall figure that obscures areas of progress.

This postwar concept of the doll obscures the many different and alternative doll formats that were produced.

It obscures the degree to which the economies of China and the U. S. have become symbiotic.

It is not the best definition, because it obscures the reason why prices for most everything go up in the first place.

But this grandstanding is really for domestic consumption, and obscures the hard facts of the U. S. -China financial relationship.

A woman should want to avoid dressing in a way that deliberately draws attention to her sexual values and obscures her value as a person.

It clouds the reason, substitutes pathos for tragedy, and obscures the harder issues of life in a mist of tenderness.

A lack of transparency obscures the full cost of China's outlays, but already many Olympic structures have been shuttered.

The word "cyber" in cybercrime obscures real crimes committed in real places.

Yet the rebound obscures an uncomfortable truth about the spending of the rich: It has become the most unstable part of our economy.

Tina: Yeah, when the term used only obscures the truth, then it's a subtle form of deception.

A disturbance, especially a random and persistent disturbance, that obscures or reduces the clarity of a signal.

If you omit this parameter when you specify a user account, Schtasks. Exe prompts you for the password and obscures the text you type.

Now, though, humans are faced with a higher-level presentation that "obscures" or hides this content.

A thick plume of dust, however, hovers over the Iraq-Iran border, and obscures the coastline of the Persian Gulf.

This simultaneously pumps up asset prices and obscures their speculative nature, with euphoria usurping the place of analysis.

An ornamental wall obscures some of the remaining small shops, while others are now rubble.

A veil of blowing snow nearly obscures Meighen Island (left) off the northern coast of Canada.

This complicates and obscures human thinking and behavior to an alarming degree, with serious consequences.

The author obscures the racial identity of character and the meaning of a symbolic object.

the only difference from ancient times is that now the fog, mixed with smog, obscures the tops of the skyscrapers.

But the re-emergence of the usual partisan sound and fury obscures a much more interesting question.

The part of growth we experience most directly is the randomness, which obscures the other patterns.

But this picture obscures a poor record of preserving biodiversity and old-growth forests, argues Song Xinzhou.

A partial eclipse occurs when the Sun and Moon are not exactly in line and the Moon only partially obscures the Sun.

Interestingly, this dust is also what obscures our view of the center of our Galaxy in visible light.

Yet its insistence on not being "evil" and its dismissive view of Apple and Microsoft obscures this.

This obsession with trade deficits also obscures phenomenally good news.

"That was my greatest publicity stunt of all time, " beams Dr Metcalfe, whose intermittent vainglory obscures an underlying charm.

it is covered by a dirty green varnish that obscures the colour and about three inches ( 7 . 5 centimetres ) have been cut off each side.

America's downgrade by a single ratings agency obscures the real problems now besetting the global economy.

Duplication in code obscures the design because you can't find idiomatic patterns.

But the focus on Taipei politics obscures an equally important shift in Beijing.

The water creates a shifting lens for the way we see the environment- both highlights and obscures our viewing.

Taking another look at the data after fixing a problem is important if the first problem obscures some other problem.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

But it also obscures the message the forward curve is ending.

His difficult style obscures his meaning.

One obvious reason is that any discussion of politics leads to polarization, which obscures the reality of human suffering.

The exudate obscures the sulci.

But this pat explanation obscures a lingering paradox of depression, which is that the mental illness is extremely common.

Docking the taskbar in this fashion obscures the desktop coordinates (0, 0).

How to lead when a dense fog of uncertainty obscures vision into the future?

But this obscures a starker trend: "mid-list" titles are selling in smaller numbers in America and Britain.

Smog obscures our view.

It obscures information and so distorts behaviour.

This is important information, but it obscures what is happening in the use case.

The overemphasis on one particular or netect of tough often obscures the relevance of other issues .

On the other hand, in some applications the central part of the mirror obscures the beam path and therefore is a disaster.

Anasarca Obscures Diagnosis of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy

Something that obscures or conceals; a haze:

all of sudden your sight obscures

Hughes's enormous shadow obscures many aspects of Plath's life and work