Sentences with phrase «confounding when»

It can be downright confounding when you're pivoting into a new industry or role.

The overall drop in NAEP scores is doubly confounding when one considers that so many other measures of educational progress in the state are trending in the other direction.

Plus, she said, calls to keep the beach free of structures like the interpretive center are confounding when considering the densely populated neighborhoods around Rosewood.

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.

«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.

«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.

As the only female contender for the contract and with her artistic ideals severely conflicting with Le Notre's vision, Sabine is confounded when she secures the coveted indenture, despite overwhelming derisive indignation from her male adversaries.

Zimmerman was apparently confounded when he was ordered to have 39 of his dogs seen by a veterinarian due to flea and fly bites that, rest assured, went above and beyond that of minor skin irritations. Indeed, since dog wardens are now outfitted with digital cameras it would be of tremendous interest to know if photographs of the doomed dogs exist. Nevertheless, Zimmerman contacted a large animal veterinarian for advice despite the fact that the state's Dog Law requires all licensed canine kennels to have documentation providing the name and contact information for the veterinarian of record who cares for the dogs. Could it be that Richard Martrich and Orlando Aguirre, the two dog wardens who had inspected the kennel over the previous six years, had overlooked this detail and is it possible that the dogs in Zimmerman's care had never been seen by a veterinarian?

But there are innumerable reasons why our society is confounded when asked whether the EverQuest Widows are victims of adultery.

Not exact matches

It confounds me that in a year of record lending by the Small Business Administration, entrepreneurs still struggle to get the financing they need even when all indicators point to the opportunity for growth.

A heap of evidence shows women are assessed differently when it comes to confidence, likability and self - promotion, so the researchers only recruited male study subjects, as they put it, «to control for potentially confounding effects of gender.»

So how to explain the seemingly confounding detail that when MAD decided to crack the conspicuously high - rise New York City market in 2009, it never got off the ground floor.

When your predictions are confounded, do you carry on regardless?

When confronted with confounding issues about buyer decisions and their future choices, the impulse is to «run the numbers» for answers.

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.

Some of the ideas that religion imparts upon politics are good, such as helping your fellow man, but religion is not necessary for those ideas to exist and indeed can confound those ideas when mixed with other messages from the same religion.

When this text was used against Christians, Paul confounded his critics by embracingit.

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.

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.

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

Man, of course, is like one of the natural objects in the hands of man: «Their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field, and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops...» What is forgotten is that when the power of man is unleashed it is never in the hands of all men («man» here means some men rather than all men, and this is even more flagrantly so today).

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.

The powers of amateur golf got a surprise in Mexico City when four unheralded Australians, led by a 43 - year - old scrambler, played it cool and quiet and confounded the favorites in a world championship

The results held true even when researchers accounted for potentially confounding factors such as the presence of aggression within the family and parental stress, depression and drug or alcohol use.

Usually when the safety of bedsharing with crib sleeping is compared, and bedsharing is said to be 22 - 40 times more dangerous, none of the confounding factors that are known to increase risks while bedsharing are mentioned.

Variables were retained in the reduced logistic regression model when their presence was determined to confound the association between human milk feeding and infection or sepsis / meningitis, as defined by a change of > 5 % in the regression coefficient for type of feeding when the variable was removed from the full regression model.

Confounding happens when something NOT measured is associated with both the intervention and the outcome.

† Because many of the case - control studies demonstrated a protective effect of breastfeeding against SIDS in univariate analysis but not when confounding factors were taken into account, 62,184,198,231,238 these results suggested that factors associated with breastfeeding, rather than breastfeeding itself, are protective.

When modeled together with adjustment for possible confounding, these associations were marginally attenuated.

The moment was in contrast to last week's blow up when Skelos stormed out of the meeting claiming that «another branch of government» was pushing New York City issues in the budget talks (There is no doubt he was referring to Silver, who has confounded Republicans during budget negotiations for 20 years now).

On the train home I get to thinking that Hampshire is just like all of Britain: confounding, contradictory and ultimately sensible, but only when pushed to it.

The sudden switch confounded most of the sleep - deprived participants, but those who had a particular variation of the DRD2 gene handled the switch as well as they did when well - rested.

The authors say the results persisted even when adjusted for a wide range of potentially confounding factors, including socioeconomic status, smoking behavior, alcohol consumption and health status.

«But it's difficult to pick up these patterns in less - developed countries when there are so many other confounding variables.»

Researchers recently identified the brain regions that become active when we see extraordinary postures, offering insight into how skilled athletes and performers confound us.

The turtle shell is a unique modification, and how and when it originated has fascinated and confounded biologists for more than two centuries.

The quest has been confounded by a number of factors that come into play when designing a complex organ or tissue.

Another confounding factor in earlier studies: Researchers sampled DNA from modern purebred dogs, which are the result of generations of artificial selection and hybridization by breeders, skewing the genetic timeline of when wolves and dogs parted ways.

When these confounding factors were taken into account, either by the original researchers in a follow - up study or by Sloan's group, the alleged benefits usually disappeared.

«You can only imagine the confounding problems that can occur when you have multiple genomes,» said Saski.

Confounded by the inexhaustible array of choices available when you stroll through a supermarket today?

For instance, when the researchers removed the possible confounding influence of ApoE4 by looking only at families lacking that ApoE variant, they found that the frequency of the mutant A2M gene in Alzheimer's patients was four times greater than in their siblings who did not have the disease.

Fatty foods, be they milkshake, French fry or Big Mac, have long confounded researchers seeking to explain how our body determines when it has had enough.

But when researchers further consider hd - PS, they usually come around to recognizing its value — even if it wounds a few egos by finding a wider range of confounding variables than they would on their own.

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.

To avoid confounding the episodic memories of the items delivered with the spatial memory of a store's location, the researchers excluded trips that were directly to or from that store when placing it on the neural map.

It's nigh impossible to measure anything meaningful about planetary atmospheres when there's such a large confounding influence.

A planetary nebula forms when Sun - like stars gently eject their outer gaseous layers that form bright nebulae with amazing and confounding shapes.

This is what we found when focusing only on studies that had adjusted for multiple confounding factors (table 2).

ʺ To confound my doctor and see the look on his face when I tell him I do pushups on my knuckles.