Close things look blurred.

Distant things look blurred.

Face blurred to prevent recognition.

Where it came from is quite blurred.

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Nowadays, ideological differences between left and right are blurred.

But everything is blurred in clowns, tragedy is removed.

Yet the definition of political activities is so blurred.

The traditional boundaries between labor and capital are becoming blurred.

After twelve years of transition, the answer to the first question has blurred.

Do you see distinctions between the two or are the lines becoming blurred?

Porn magazines with blurred images at a convenient store in Japan, by Flickr user eliazar.

Indeed, it was during this period that the very definition of an independent film became blurred.

This belief quickly shaped reality, as market analysts blurred the distinction between a growth slowdown and economic collapse.

That might happen one day, as the borderlines between different sub sectors of the financial system become more blurred.

However, while this has blurred the old division, new ones have emerged, splintering today s world into four inter connected tiers.

Tudjman forged an authoritarian regime that blurred the distinctions between HDZ and state agencies, in particular the army and police.

The messages are usually hidden and blurred and it is very difficult for ordinary people to see the hidden allegories.

The line between information and entertainment has never been as sharp as some intellectuals imagine, and it is becoming increasingly blurred.

Finally, in 1980, I received the revered New Yorker contract, which I blurred out parts because it's none of your business.

Under Japanese law, all images of genitalia must be blurred, so Kee's work which featured nudity was effectively breaking the law.

These countries massive combined bank and government debt the distinction everywhere in Europe has become blurred makes rapid sustained growth a dream.

After twelve years of transition, the answer to the first question has blurred. With the Communist Party in terminal decline, ideologies are vanishing.

Such blurred attitudes toward the recent communist past are being eagerly exploited by manufacturers, who have been using Soviet symbols to market their goods for years.

The corporate world indeed, the formal workplace more generally can no longer be strictly separated from the informal world in which work and leisure have become blurred.

Even in famous private Chinese companies like Lenovo and Huawei Technologies, the ownership structure is highly convoluted, and the boundaries of state and private control rights blurred.

But his accusers the two Swedish women who have brought the complaints against him are consistently identified only as Miss A and Miss W, and their images are blurred.

The line between information and entertainment has never been as sharp as some intellectuals imagine, and it is becoming increasingly blurred. Some popular music lyrics can have political effects.

Kyzyl Asker summed up the common feeling that in Kyrgyzstan, the line between the political and criminal elite blurred so long ago that it was no longer worth drawing

Neither degrees nor employment by traditional media outlets are criteria for its definition, and the lines are even more blurred with the widespread of alternative media outlets over the internet.

With ever more powerful processors, silicon chess players developed the ability to calculate so far ahead that the distinction between short term tactical calculations and long term strategic planning became blurred.

But when those boundary lines are blurred, when the dikes crumble and the antiracist watchdogs allow themselves to be intimidated or lower their guard, the FN tries to make itself at home.

Likewise, the choice between privately consumed and publicly consumed goods is often blurred, as politicians tend to reinforce citizens understandable tendency to demand public goods while rejecting the taxes needed to pay for them.

Tudjman forged an authoritarian regime that blurred the distinctions between HDZ and state agencies, in particular the army and police. This muddied legacy remains at the heart of Croatia's current problems and its relations with the Hague Tribunal.

Instead, enlargement was turned into a dull exercise, in which the ultimate benefits of EU membership became blurred in the minds of ordinary people by the complex process of adopting the acquis communautaire (the body of EU law).

The same sticker pack also includes several anti American cartoons featuring US President Barack Obama, showing him eyeing a nuclear missile, laughing in a straightjacket, and lighting a cigar, looking like a demon. (There's also a racist sticker, which we've blurred to spare you that image.)