The masked man. I'm a romantic.

It's an invitation to a masked ball.

All three assassinations were carried out in Mogadishu by masked gunmen.

How cleverly Detochkin had masked his interest in the gang leader's pursuit!

Why are you dressed like that? For a masked ball in the morning?

Magomed Butsaev was allegedly given electric shocks during interrogation by masked officials, before being released on 24 January.

423. Olga Sokulova was allegedly raped by four masked soldiers during a raid on her house in Assinovskaya in January 1995.

When he reached Madrid they masked him and took him to an office, hitting him about the head until they reached it.

This evaluation detected flaws from the outset in the Vienna Programme of Action itself, whose quot broad terms and blurred definitions quot masked existing disagreements.

46. On 5 May, a WFP national staff member was attacked by two armed masked men in Banja Luka the WFP vehicle he was using was stolen.

On 18 June, in Pichori, in the lower Gali district, two UNOMIG patrol teams comprising 11 military observers and two interpreters were robbed by three armed masked men.

He emphasized that efforts to combat poverty, which was sometimes masked by the relatively high development indicators of the region, particularly among women, were hampered by the international situation.

The work with the Ministry of Education on curricular and extracurricular sports activities is revealing the open and masked forms of discrimination against girls and young women in this area.

Parades and rallies were held in Masada, Bukata and Majdal Shams, with masked demonstrators holding Syrian flags and pictures of the Syrian President, Hafez Al Assad and chanting slogans against Israel.

142. On 29 December, masked Palestinians, some carrying weapons, staged a march in the Kalandiya refugee camp, near Ramallah, to mark the thirty third anniversary of the Fatah movement. (Ha aretz, 30 December)

A group of masked pro separatists held back by riot police pelted them with eggs and hurled powder paint, creating dark clouds of dust in streets that would usually be thronged with tourists.

These persons, all of them municipal officials, were detained on 16 and 17 October 1997 by judicial police officers accompanied by two masked individuals in the town of San Juan Ñumi, State of Oaxaco.

Said Selim Bekmurzayev and his son Sultan Bekmurzayev, displaced residents of Chechnya, were allegedly beaten in their apartment in Moscow on 23 April 1996 by 10 masked, armed officers of the Department for Fighting Organized Crime (RUOP).

Accordingly, he explained that the denial of European Union membership to Turkey and the refusal to refer to Europe's Christian heritage in the European Constitution in fact masked the rejection of the notion that Europe is already multicultural.

On a more pessimistic note, however, those overall averages masked the higher debt ratios of a large number of smaller countries and a few large countries, mainly low income and or least developed countries in sub Saharan Africa.

Putin s military build up and modernization of the past decade was also fueled by energy exports. But Russia s latest energy windfall has masked Putin s incompetent economic management, with growth and government revenues now entirely reliant on the hydrocarbons sector.

Cross borrowing from the accounts of closed missions in order to keep the Organization, the international tribunals and active peacekeeping operations viable simply masked the real issue of arrears and the Fifth Committee's inability to address that issue substantively.

All of this uncertainty reveals critical flaws in the Asian century s foundations flaws that, until recently, were masked by the region s rapid economic growth. Indeed, vast production chains linking businesses across countries gave the impression of a uniquely Asian superstructure.

Some ministers expressed concern that recent ODA figures masked real contribution to development since recent ODA flows involved a large share of emergency aid, including aid to countries affected by the tsunami, debt write offs and funds used to fight terrorism.

35. Stoyan Apostolov and Angel Dichev were allegedly beaten and kicked on 5 December 1995 by masked officers of the Specialized Unit to Combat Terrorism (Red Berets) at their shop in Tsar Simeon Street in Sofia, during raids by the officers.

Saidkhamzat Abumuslimov, Adam Saigatkhadzhiev, Andi Vagapov and Adnan Abumuslimov, all of Chechen origin, were reportedly beaten at the apartment of Saidkhamzat Abumuslimov on 17 June 1996 by 15 masked, armed men believed to be officers of the special police units (OMON).

Southern eurozone countries such as Italy and Spain have suffered from rising competition with China in textiles and light manufacturing industries. But just as the pre crisis credit boom masked underlying structural problems, post crisis credit constraints have greatly amplified the downturn.

Lack of reasonably independent regulation and competent public administration or, worse, one person dictatorships lead inexorably to economic waste and inefficiency, and eventually to political turmoil. This is true even in cases like Venezuela, where large oil revenues masked the underlying weakness for a while.

Attention is therefore shifting to the second narrative, which suggests that the advanced economies fundamental capacity to grow by making useful things has been declining for decades, a trend that was masked by debt fueled spending. More such spending will not return these countries to a sustainable growth path.

Successive governments staffed with unqualified politicians have failed dismally to carry out the core governmental functions of maintaining law and order, providing the basic services expected of modern societies, and promoting economic growth. India s high performing private sector has so far masked the failure of the Indian state.

Salambek Hamzatov, a displaced resident of Chechnya living with four other adults and six children in an apartment in Moscow, was reportedly beaten, kicked and hit with truncheons and gun butts by 10 to 13 armed masked men led by an unmasked police officer when they entered his apartment on 22 March 1996.

The European Constitution has little to do with any of these challenges, but a majority of French people has started questioning the strategy that has long masked France s diminishing status. They are alarmed by what they see as the domination of Anglo Saxon economic principles the last nail in the coffin of France s mythical exception.

The men were masked, but the author observed that one of them wore a military uniform and that there were other characteristics, e.g., the type of their firearms and the make of the van into which his granddaughter was pulled, which indicated that the kidnappers belonged to the military and or special police forces.

It is founded on base emotions rather than Soviet era, ideological motivations. Though Putin has tried to stoke a popular desire for empire with his Crimea annexation and intervention in eastern Ukraine, these actions amount to little more than open theft by masked men in the dead of night they have little chance of begetting lasting glory.

Millions of rural Chinese annually flood into the country s cities in search of employment but China s export led growth, which previously masked the macroeconomic costs of corruption and excessive state intervention, is slowing. As China enters an era of more subdued growth amid increased competition from other low cost countries, this damage will become increasingly apparent and increasingly destructive.

WASHINGTON, DC The recent governance controversy at JPMorgan Chase has masked a much larger issue. Regardless of Jamie Dimon s victory in retaining his dual role as CEO and chairman of the board, the more important failure on display was that of the board of directors itself a problem that affects almost all of the world s megabanks.

An undervalued currency also tends to produce an unbalanced growth model of the opposite kind an outsize tradable sector and insufficient domestic aggregate demand. Because the non tradable sector in advanced economies tends to create more jobs, this model can lead to an employment problem (even if it is partly masked by cutting hours rather than workers).

From the standpoint of growth and employment, public and private debt masked an absence of productivity growth, declining competitiveness in the tradable sector, and a range of underlying structural shortcomings including labor market rigidities, deficiencies in education and skills training, and underinvestment in infrastructure. Debt drove growth, creating aggregate demand that would not have existed otherwise.

The weakness of the Russian economy and its highly leveraged banks and corporations, in particular, which was masked in recent years by the windfall brought by spiking oil and gas prices, burst into full view as the global economy tumbled. Saddled with a rust belt infrastructure, Russia further disqualifies itself with dysfunctional and revanchist politics and a demographic trend in near terminal decline.

This underlying debility has been masked by high energy prices, which, over the 14 years of President Vladimir Putin s rule, have allowed Russia to combine the features of a kleptocracy with per capita income growth sufficient to quell dissent and create a shopping mad middle class. The accumulation of reserves from the oil and gas industries can be used to develop much needed infrastructure.

The methodology used for this study expressly excluded cases of trafficking in children by means other than those masked by the quot legal quot adoption proceedings, such as alteration of identity, falsification of paternity, abduction and illicit removal of children, partly because of the high level of unreported offences associated with this type of criminal activity, which leads to the inference that the number of cases is even greater.

Though today s biomedical science claims to search for repairs of nature s defects, too many of its practitioners behave as if their real purpose were only to gain the mythical immortality of precedence, at whatever cost to themselves or others. Denial of the fear of mortality and projection of the suppressed wish to transcend nature are the marks of a masked effort to create a biomedical science at war with its own stated purposes.