(n.) The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy.
(n.) That which is concealed; a secret.
(n.) Seclusion; privacy; retirement.
(n.) The quality of being secretive; fidelity to a secret; forbearance of disclosure or discovery.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
(2) History contains numerous examples of government secrecy breeding abuse.
(3) The secrecy worries me if those decisions are being made without giving us the ability to hold them to account,” says Conservative London Assembly member Andrew Boff.
(4) National newspapers and the BBC have joined forces to oppose Hague's secrecy application and on Friday expressed their dismay at the ruling.
(5) Such is the secrecy around the plot – centred on an Alpine town where the dead come back to life – that not even the cast have been told about the new series, which is due to begin filming early next year.
(6) The government has won a High Court order to prevent the partial lifting of a secrecy order affecting the proposed inquest into the death of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko.
(7) The company was “owned” by four bearer shareholders, which gave it an extra degree of secrecy.
(8) Secrecy was encouraged and bribery, threats, and peer pressure used to induce participation in sexual activities.
(9) The prime minister, Tony Abbott , said on Thursday he was comfortable with being accused of secrecy on asylum seeker policy so long as the policies succeeded in stopping the boats.
(10) It's believed to be the first time an appeals court delayed an execution based on the issue of drug secrecy.
(11) However, in a demonstration of the intense secrecy surrounding NSA surveillance even after Edward Snowden's revelations, the senators claimed they could not publicly identify the allegedly misleading section or sections of a factsheet without compromising classified information.
(12) They've all had the courthouse doors slammed shut in the faces by courts that have accepted the US government's claims that its own secrecy powers and immunity rights bar any such justice.
(13) Their secrecy and diminished footprint make them harder than conventional wars to oppose and hold to account – though the backlash in countries bearing the brunt is bound to grow.
(14) These efforts don't solve the problem of government surveillance and secrecy.
(15) The engineer said he was concerned that the nuclear industry and local political system had a reputation for considerable secrecy that would not make it easy to discern what had gone wrong.
(16) The practice of HIV-tests for exclusion purpose promotes a tendency to secrecy, which is unfavourable to the social and medical control of the epidemic, especially because medical secret relatively to insurances is insufficient.
(17) "What the Guardian is highlighting is the vital role of secrecy in offshore abuse.
(18) Speaking on his LBC 97.3 radio show, Clegg said he strongly supported the need for secrecy by the intelligence agencies but there needed to be proper accountability as current regulation was quite opaque.
(19) In effect, we need all leaders to move health and social care organisations from fragmentation to integration; from tribes to interdisciplinary and inter-organisational teams; from internal focus to external focus; from domination and control to enabling collaboration; from secrecy to transparency; and from conflict and conflict avoidance to working through.
(20) • Apple has been able to draw a secrecy veil over its Irish operations by making extensive use of unlimited companies, which are not required to file company accounts.
Unblind
Definition:
(v. t.) To free from blindness; to give or restore sight to; to open the eyes of.
Example Sentences:
(1) In an unblinded, randomized parallel group trial three different therapeutic dose schedules of fenticonazole (vaginal ovules) were compared in the treatment of vaginal candidiasis.
(2) The limits of detectability were tested in a blinded, then unblinded analysis of CT scans from 25 acute stroke patients.
(3) In the past, stereotactic surgery was a regular treatment for prominent unilateral tremor in Parkinson's disease (PD), but follow-up studies were usually short-term and always unblinded.
(4) Ivermectin (19 'double-blinded' and 22 'unblinded' patients) caused an abrupt reduction in mf count to 1.5% of the pre-treatment level 12 h after drug administration and to 0.06% on day 14, with recrudescence to 1.8% after one month and to 9.2% after 3 months.
(5) The unblinded second phase involved the steady state conditions using halothane or isoflurane and atracurium infusions.
(6) Babies in either group developing RDS during the following 18 hours received 2 unblinded doses of surfactant 12 hours apart.
(7) An unblinded, in vitro trial simulating clinical conditions.
(8) These results suggest that in double-blind studies, differences in outcome or incidence of adverse drug reactions may act as unblinding factors.
(9) The results of this study differed substantially from previous unblinded studies; therefore, it is suggested that a randomized, double-blind design with simultaneous succinylcholine controls be considered a prerequisite for future studies of intubation conditions.
(10) In an adjunctive, unblinded trial, the same patients received 400 micrograms fenoterol.
(11) These findings suggest that the effects of unblinding should be considered when alcohol is administered in placebo designs.
(12) Prolonged unblinded passive surveillance of the trial cohort from the Swedish 1986-87 pertussis vaccine efficacy trial indicates that a two-component vaccine, containing pertussis toxoid and filamentous haemagglutinin, provided better long-term protection against pertussis than a monocomponent pertussis toxoid vaccine.
(13) We therefore tested the long-term effect of metoprolol on eight patients in a double-blind, randomized protocol and 12 patients in an unblinded, crossover protocol who were treated for 12 months (range 10 to 24), and compared them with 16 similar subjects who were treated with placebo for 10 months (range 6 to 12) in a double-blind, randomized protocol.
(14) One hundred five early babies and 142 selective babies developed RDS requiring unblinded surfactant (50% versus 68%; 95% CI of difference, 9% to 27%).
(15) There was no evidence for the development of resistance to polyenes or imidazoles in fungal isolates recovered from patients in this randomized trial or an increase in Aspergillus infections in patients who received miconazole in this randomized trial or in 121 subsequently treated patients who received unblinded use of miconazole.
(16) A blinded interpretation of the pretherapy and posttherapy noise-added images was performed in the same way as the initial unblinded interpretation.
(17) Blinded and unblinded readers analyzed brain and spine MRI studies from a multicenter clinical trial involving 101 patients at 11 sites.
(18) A survey of two cohorts of patients with AIDS who participated in nonrandomized, unblinded, non-placebo-controlled investigations of the toxicity and efficacy of interleukin-2 and interferon-gamma.
(19) Six months after lithotripsy, patients receiving placebo were crossed over to UDCA therapy without unblinding the study.
(20) The bioavailability and in vitro pharmacokinetic characteristics of this novel PPA preparation were compared with those of a reference sustained-release 75 mg Q16 PPA tablet (Acutrim), in a pilot, 3 subject, unblinded, cross-over, single dose study.