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The international economy could no longer allow a financial market driven by profit to overshadow the development needs of the real economy.

[...] [...] above all it obscures the human reality [...]

[...] [...] vis-à-vis other women masks the ongoing inequality [...]

Anyone who receives, deposits, trades in, converts or transfers money, securities, property or other financial resources in the knowledge that they are derived from activities related to drug trafficking, fraud, illicit arms trafficking, trafficking in persons, kidnapping, extortion, embezzlement, corruption of public servants, terrorist acts, theft or international trafficking in vehicles, as provided for under Panamanian criminal law, with the aim of hiding or concealing their illicit origin or of helping to evade the legal consequences of such crimes shall be sentenced to 5 to 12 years’ imprisonment and a fine of 100 to 200 days.

Conversely, if revenue information is aggregated at country level it would obscure often very large payments and be of limited use for improving transparency.

No amount of talk about the “economic unity of the world” can hide the fact that some countries with little export trade in industrial goods and few, if any, inventions for sale have nothing to gain from granting patents on inventions worked and patented abroad except the avoidance of unpleasant foreign retaliation in other directions.

[...] [...] its societies were extremely unequal [...] [...]

[...] [...] torture under cover of an interpretation, [...] [...]

[...] [...] “suspect”, the covering up of kidnappings, [...]

[...] [...] absorbing oil and masking fine wrinkles, [...]

[...] these inadequacies should not hide the efforts [...] [...]

[...] attempting to cover up the failure [...] [...]

The Commission highlighted climate change as an enormous challenge for the region in achieving sustained economic growth in terms of enhancing food and water security, managing forests and agricultural productivity, resilience to disasters, and the development of mountains as well as coastal areas, and thus overshadowing the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in the region.

The Group concluded (see S/2009/521, paras. 127-134) that the serial numbers had been removed to conceal the origin of the weapon (i.e. the party that had provided the weapons to the Forces nouvelles).

[...] more difficult to cover up.

With regard to the responsibilities of countries of origin and host countries — including in the area of illegal immigration — he stressed that international migration had bilateral causes and consequences, especially given the local demand for labour that was aimed at undocumented migrants.

[...] [...] in the proceeds of corruption, is [...]

In cold water some oils with high pour points will solidify into unpredictable shapes and the appearance of the floating portions may disguise the total volume of oil present.

In the context of universality and progressivity, a number of delegations recognized that the existing target for resources assignment from the core (TRAC) methodology and criteria for establishing country classifications, particularly the use of gross national income data, were inadequate and masked significant development challenges, pointing out that they did not measure, inter alia, levels of poverty, social inequalities, wealth and human development indicators.

These rights, however, may not be invoked by the inspected party in order to conceal activities which violate treaty articles.

[...] that had been buried by other, more [...]

[...] [...] deterioration of food or masking any of the evidence of putrefaction but this term [...] [...]

He claims that these notes in the above X-ray reports were an attempt by the State party’s authorities to conceal the fractures that had already existed at that time.

This overall performance covered a lacklustre [...] [...]

But describing them as “rights” should not be allowed to conceal the very real dilemmas raised by their application in developing countries, where the extra costs they impose may be at the expense of the essential prerequisites of life for poor people.

[...] [...] noise is enough to mask motor and powertrain sound.

Although the outcome may seem ‘concrete’ (in that precise values are determined), precision may disguise the fact that valuation is often based on assumptions and prognoses that are difficult to validate and predict.