Sentences with phrase «confounded at»

By default, the app shows a sample for each of these options, which is intended to make things less confusing, but left me a bit confounded at first.

I have to admit, Google AdWords confounded me at first.

Neat and compact but with several bells and whistles which confounded me at first.

There are at least six suspected deaths attributed to the killer, and the Feds have been confounded at every turn, but now McConaughey reveals that he feels his brother is the killer they have been looking for.

Labour members still thought their MPs might see sense, show their humanity and were confounded at the lack of response campaigning organisations had received.

Still, I hold on to both and there's no emotional or sentimental attachment, so this category confounds me at times.

That's the extent to which I can describe a game which I found to be quite confounding at times, if incredibly charming -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

«A life of staring endlessly at the surf armed with a pina colada will confound and frustrate the frontal lobe.»

Confused by Internet hype, confounded by fads, companies must put customers back at the center of their strategy, where their salespeople can serve them

But like Tapscott's roaming - fee surprise, unexpected factors can confound the best attempts at imagining tomorrow.

The package also contains bills directing agencies to craft the least costly rules possible, to publish cost estimates for rules in development, and to publish «plain language» summaries of proposed rules online, a salvo at the impenetrable verbal thickets that confound small - business owners, who typically handle compliance themselves.

Madrid can confound elite consensus and move aggressively to restructure Spain's external debt while redefining its participation in the euro, for example by leaving the euro while committing credibly (i.e. with German support) to rejoin the currency union at some specified future date.

At whatever point I read a site, I acknowledge that it doesn't confound me as much as this one.

«Did we ever mention that investing is hard work - painstaking, relentless, and at times confounding?»

Religious conservatives have confounded these assessments by continuing to show up at the polls in large numbers.

With the Higgs Boson we confirmed the existence of the Higgs field which goes a long way to explaining the interactions between particles on a quantum level and is giving us a peek into something that has long confounded us, what Einstein called «sp o o ky action at a distance».

A veritable Ego at the summit of the world is needed for the consummation, without confounding them, of all the elemental egos of Earth... I have talked of the «Christian view», but this idea is gaining ground in other circles.

God, at the beginning of the Bible, walking in a garden in the cool of the day, making a woman from a man's rib, confounding men's speech lest they build a tower too high, trying to slay a man at a wayside inn because his child was not circumcised, or dwelling on Mt. Sinai, where he says to Moses, «You shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen,» is a very different deity from the one you find at the Bible's end, «God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.»

He said: Though ye make mock of Us, yet We mock at you even as ye mock; (38) And ye shall know to whom a punishment that will confound him cometh, and upon whom a lasting doom will fall.

«People in both camps would quickly discover that some long - cherished divisions — the favorite one, for instance, between the academic and the practical, the reflective and the active, theory and practice — are confounded when you look with any care at the life of an actual congregation, and see the ways that theory is always in practice, that even the act of theorizing is an act of practice.

The movements are frequently confounded, for it is said that one needs faith to renounce the claim to everything, yea, a stranger thing than this may be heard, when a man laments the loss of his faith, and when one looks at the scale to see where he is, one sees, strangely enough, that he has only reached the point where he should make the infinite movement of resignation.

I see how the sinners of history run in and out at its dark doors and are not confounded.

Yet, historians of revivals would say that God often confounds onlookers when he is at work.

Moreover, we must not confound the essentials of saintliness, which are those general passions of which I have spoken, with its accidents, which are the special determinations of these passions at any historical moment.

However, for Crossan (and to some extent Borg) the Jesus of history was the center of a Galilean Camelot, the halcyon days when Jesus and his band roamed the countryside, disregarding societal structures, defying hierarchical patterns, irritating elites and confounding the powerful, creating a grass - roots movement with nobodies while at the same time refusing to be its leader or mediator of the New because that would be brokering the kingdom.

If this is the case, everything which we have proposed in our first chapter is confounded, nor do we stand at the Socratic order of things, but we stand before a confusion which not even Socrates would have been able to master.

William White recognized in 1782 that the future of the Episcopal Church in America, where the distinction between «Church» and «Dissenters» would not be known, depended on not «confounding english episcopacy, with the subject at large.»

Here is my evil plan — Create a fictional character, have him born into poverty in a part of the world full of strife with no recorded history, cast some doubts on his conception (that will keep them guessing), leave a decade or so gap in his life story, re-introduce him in the middle of nowhere and tell everyone he has all these amazing powers, he confounds and confuses all his followers and tells them not to tell anyone about what he does or where he is going and Oh yeah, they are all prostiitutes and tax cheats and lepers and the really lowlifes of society, deny them the chance to follow him, set him at odds with both the government and the church powers of his time, cast doubts on his seexuality and intelligence, make it so he refuses anyone to come to his aid and kill him in the most horrible way imaginable, then hide his body, make it so nothing he does can be historically proven.

At his interrogation on that day he had said «the Act of Parliament is like a sword with two edges, for if a man answers one way: it will confound his soul and if he answers the other way it will confound his body».

Will you deny the consistency of our exposition: that the Reason, in attempting to determine the Unknown as the unlike, at last goes astray, and confounds the unlike with the like?

If you were here, you'd look at me with wide, confounded eyes that demand an explanation.

Finger - Tip catch in end zone by tumbling Lee Folkins occurred at end of 23 - yard pass from Bob Schloredt, Washington's one - eyed wizard of a quarterback, who confounded beefy Wisconsin defense all day with slick play selection.

I like to think of myself as a fairly rational individual, which is why what has and is going on at Arsenal confounds me... little wonder people have gone so far as to suggest that Wenger is actually sabotaging the club... one only needs to look at our starting 11 to stoke the flames of conspiracy... just think of the perceived importance of this game, considering the loss to Stoke, the historically significance of the two teams involved, the controversy that swirled around our two meetings last season, the proximity to the closing of the window and the general disdain being directed towards the manager once again... how is it even possible that you wouldn't come to Anfield with all guns blazing... not a single shot on target, with the back - up keeper in no less... where were the new signings?

Armed with a self - taught, attacking style that confounded the boyhood coaches who tried to change him, Bode (pronounced BOH - dee) hopped mountains and trained with a rival team at age 13.

BOBSLEDDING — Italy's Eugenio Monti confounded experts at world bobsled championships at Cortina, Italy, by steering Italy's four - man team to.2 - second victory over favored German and U.S. teams with aggregate time of 5:04.75 for four heats.

From what we have seen from the Arsenal team so far it is going to take a significant turnaround in form to achieve two wins from the next two Premier League encounters, but we know that the Gunners can blow hot and cold and so I would not be at all surprised if Arsene Wenger and the players confound the general consensus of the football pundits and do it.

Which is why theMaloofs are confounded by the opposition to their request for public funds fora new, $ 470 million building that would replace Arco, at 19 the third - oldestarena in the league.

Winds are befuddling the oldsters at the PGA Seniors» Championship in Florida; swirling winds are confounding the Nike players at the Tallahassee Open; high winds in North Carolina are plaguing the Pinewild Women's Championship.

Rostov arrive at Old Trafford as unfancied Europa League fodder for Manchester United, but coach Ivan Daniliants is confident of confounding the doubters and making history.

To confound that shock, they also had Henri Bedimo at left - back, he left that summer for Montpellier HSC and helped them win their first ever league crown.

The striker situation at West Ham has been a perplexing one where the supposed no - stone - unturned search for a goal scoring forward has been confounded by not having a clear profile of the type of player sought.

Leicester City will be hoping to confound the doubters again, as they begin their debut Champions League campaign at the Jan Breydel Stadion tonight, home of the Belgian champions Club Brugge.

It came up at christmas dinner; at one point, the topic of breastfeeding came up, and my spouse's uncle started to say «I know breastfeeding reduces the risk of allergies later» and, expecting him to move on to obesity and IQ and whatever else he was about to say, I just said «No, that's not true», and started trying to explain the difference between correlation and causation, and the difficulties with prospective studies and confounding factors, etc..

I didn't see any evidence (1) actually connecting the former to the latter, (2) that the differences at birth are lasting, (3) that the purported diseases associated with the microbiome in adulthood are the same ones associated with c - section (the author cites obesity, but we know that those observational studies re: c - section and obesity are deeply flawed by confounding)(4) that the «microbiotic» benefit of vaginal birth exists regardless of maternal health and matenral microbiome.

However, even after control for confounding and selection factors associated with infant feeding practices, increasing duration of breastfeeding was associated with small but significant increases in scores on standardized tests of ability and achievement, teacher ratings of classroom performance, and greater success at high school.

A confounding variable was defined for analysis as one for which there was at least a 5 % difference in the regression coefficient estimates for type of feeding in regression models with and without the potential confounding variable.

We thought at first that there may be risk for confounding if the control group used uterotonics or analgesics, but our review of the latest systematic reviews gave us no reason to suspect that this would confound the results; though it was interesting that neonatal safety of uterotonics and analgesics was determined based on limited outcomes of APGARs and NICU admission.

It is confounding that so many women, especially poor women, don't at least give breast - feeding a try.

322 Additional subsequent large population case - control trials consistently have found vaccines to be protective against SIDS323, — , 325; however, confounding factors (social, maternal, birth, and infant medical history) might account for this protective effect.326 It also has been theorized that the decreased SIDS rate immediately after vaccination was attributable to infants being healthier at time of immunization, or «the healthy vaccinee effect.»

She ended up having a vaginal delivery at 36 weeks with her second child out of labor pain confounded with passing out a renal calculi (she had eliminated 1 tiny stone of 2, two weeks earlier spontaneously.I think the doctor missinterpreted the second pain around).