Sentences with phrase «confounding things»

One of the most confounding things: your ever - changing period.

Confounding things further, the psychology of voting in a by - election often comes down to sending the government or the national political parties a message of discontent — whereas the psychology of general election voting is about choosing a government.

If Clemson's gonna start doing this in addition to the million other confounding things they do on offense, we're all in trouble.

But here's the confounding thing: The stocks plummeted even as the industry posted all - time highs for occupancy rates and revenue per available room, or RevPAR.

27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

«For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence.»

In short, by allowing Christian faith to be the consensual foundation of the political and social order, as it were the form of political life, Christendom confounded the things of Caesar with the things of God.

1CR 1:27 - 29 «But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, [yea], and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence.»

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty (1 Cor 1:27)

«It's also the most confounding thing I've ever done.

There's one disturbing and confounding thing that many of the powerful men who have been accused of sexually harassing and assaulting women have in common: They like to masturbate in front of women.

The signal - noise ratio can be a confounding thing indeed when analyzing the raw stats.

Not exact matches

Wenger, on the other hand, is purely an optimist who doesn't plan for anything going wrong and is confounded when things go against him.

We start out trusting our parents completely — even when they tell us seemingly confounding or ridiculous things — and overall that's good, because they're right way more often than not.

Don't worry God uses the foolish things to confound the so called wise.

If he can so lose himself in the service of the spirit that it never occurs to him to take care for meat and drink; if he is certain that want will not distract him, and that distress will not confound for him the structure of his life, and teach him to rue that he did not first master the simple things before he presumed to understand more — then he may indeed venture, and his greatness will be more glorious than the serene security of the lilies of the field.

RT encourages you to beware being too quick to say, «Surely not, that can't be God» - and shows how from the Garden of Eden onwards, God has often chosen «foolish things» to confound the «wise».

In fact when God says I will take the foolish things of the world to confound the wise that is not logical or reasonable yet that is God.

For, as there is no created thing, no matter how lowly, in which one can not recognize the me facit Deus... there is none that does not confound the mind once it stops to consider it.»

God chooses the things that are foolishness to the world, to confound the wise... 1Cor 1:27.

God says it is by faith and he will confound the ways of the wise with the things that appear foolish.

Didn't God choose the «foolish things of this world to confound the wise?»

Most Relatable: Emerging Mummy with «In which God uses the «foolish» things to confound the «wise»» «There was this TV preacher that I sort of hated.

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.

The simple things of God confound you to a point where you have to do a great investigation??

The only problem, whatever the benefits, this behavior skews and confounds the ability to be logical and even see the simple truth of how things really are.

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.

Of course, last season confounded everyone — I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I expected anything other than relegation for Leicester, or anticipated a complete Mourinho / Chelsea collapse, but even in a bonkers season some things were as predictable as ever.

Breastfeeding beyond 12 months remains of the most surprising and fulfilling things in my experience of motherhood; it has banished and continues to confound all my pre and misconceptions.

The doctor may or may not agree with the patient's decision... but the malpractice risk to the doctor of recommending against an intervention, and have things go poorly is a confounding factor that I am not sure many patients realize.

Professions also are proxies for a lot of other socio - economic things, so there a lot of confounding factors.

For one thing it confounds the reforming imagination.

«Like many others, we were utterly confounded when we thought they actually meant giving full anonymity, including through the trial - which, among other things, would mean repeat rapists like the taxi driver John Worboys were less likely to be caught.

In a real - world scenario, ground - based missile defense systems have to cope with near - impossible conditions: For instance, in addition to releasing a weapon - carrying warhead, a missile might deploy a cloud of decoys that look similar to a real warhead, confounding the defense system's attempts to take out the real thing.

If there were a way to observe the speck without disturbing it, we would see quantum strangeness laid bare: a macroscopic thing sitting in two places at the same time, confounding reality as we know it.

«The body proportions of modern humans are wildly different from those of early hominids, and that confounds the whole thing,» says University of Utah evolutionary biologist Dennis Bramble.

And so you have these longer bits of these particular amino acids, and they're the things that really confound the lining of the intestine.

DiChristina: I was just going to say, that's one thing also what occurred to me is that to me is a lesson in microcosm — because it's just a paragraph what Steve just read to everybody — that shows why it's so important in science to remove all your confounds, you know, remove all the variables so that you can find really what is at the heart of thing, and to me that that's the lesson that science has much more thoroughly adopted probably at this point and can speak with, you know, much greater authority; when something actually is a finding you need to be able to remove all the potential things that could be interfering with the conclusion that you're trying to make.

Another thing that confounds the reports on whether alcohol contributes to weight gain is the fact that the game changes in heavy drinkers.

The thing is, «chronic endurance exercise» actually does n`t seem to «reduce lifespan» — the available data suggest the opposite, in fact... (observational data corrected for confounding factors, as RCTs on this question are pretty much impossible, for obvious reasons..)

That's very possible, and is one thing that confounds all of these scenarios (I mean theoretically, that could be the case for any disease even if an infectious component isn't as obvious).

While most of the things are fundamental for the route toward making your own specific dress, perhaps the most basic piece of the confound is the dressmaking material that you will use.

Getting Started with Online Dating For any individual who is new to the universe of online dating, things could get a bit of confounding.

This is likely the sort of thing that Tarantino had on his mind when he conceived both the Stephen character and Jackson's casting in the role — as a way for both of them to answer and confound their critics, and also maybe to drive Spike Lee crazy.

A surprising thing happened in the year and a half since the first season of «Westworld» confounded and attracted viewers with its knotted story of a futuristic android uprising at a patriarchal Western theme park.

I guess it's a good thing, especially given the marketing was seemingly trying to give away as much as humanly possible, that Ridley Scott has succeeded in mystifying audiences and, for some, confounding expectations.

And at the center of it all is Mikkelsen, giving an absolutely titanic performance as a man so confounded by the idea that people might think he could do such a thing that he can never bring himself to deny it.

With his latest film, The Salesman, Asghar Farhadi once again, proves his mastery in presenting complexities of human relationships within the confounds of his native country Iran, but also demonstrating that even there are political and cultural differences among us, deep down, certain things in life are constant and universal.

«The Tale of Princess Kaguya is both very simple and head - spinningly confounding, a thing of endless visual beauty that seems to partake in a kind of pictorial minimalism but finds staggering possibilities for beautiful variation within its ineluctable modality.

Things that confounded me — I went and Googled them.