impenetrable

• “Announcing his response to a formal consultation, Cable outlined plans for greater diversity on boards – including requiring boards to contain two people who had never had seats in boardrooms before – and to make remuneration reports, which he described as "impenetrable", easier to understand.”

  The Guardian: Vince Cable hands shareholders power to tackle executive pay

• “It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.”

  A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Stave 1 Marley’s Ghost | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

• “Even this strong man shrank from this idea and showed a very natural recoil as his glances flew about the ill-omened room and finally rested on the fireside over which so repellent a mystery hung in impenetrable shadow.”

  The Filigree Ball

• “Like a cloud, like one of many that were spread in impenetrable woof over the sky, which, when the shepherd north has driven its companions "to drink Antipodean noon," fades and dissolves in the clear ether -- Such were we!”

  III.8

• “From that moment the primate of Egypt disappeared from the eyes of his enemies, and remained above six years concealed in impenetrable obscurity.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “The only reason to write legislation in impenetrable legalize is a desire to hide what they’re doing from their constituents and one another (and, I suppose, tradition, upheld to preserve their ability to hide what they’re doing in the future.”

  Matthew Yglesias » The Pointlessness of Reading Bills

• “The supreme confidence of the Romney organization - one advisor called his Florida firewall "impenetrable" - has been shaken in recent days by the former Massachusetts governor's repeated stumbles over his personal taxes.”

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• “No helmet prevented a head struck by the edges of the Crusaders 'swords from being wounded; and they found the stitching of their so-called impenetrable cuirasses too fragile.”

  The Deeds of God Through the Franks

• “ACE said it had consulted widely and feedback had included complaints that the current funding process was "impenetrable" and "a closed shop".”

  The Guardian: Arts groups face dramatic funding shakeup

• “Philip Alston of the UN Human Rights Council charges that secret "international intelligence services" allied with local militias are killing Afghan civilians and then hiding behind an "impenetrable" wall of bureaucracy.”

  Conn Hallinan: Shadow Wars

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