Sentences with phrase «confused by the idea»

Generally, some managers refuse to help their former employees after adopting the system, citing their newfound freedom, while others flail about, frightened and confused by the idea of self - management.

For those of you who are confused by the idea of a savory pie one could also call it a dairy - free / gluten - free quiche, or a frittata with a crust.

«Most people would be confused by the idea of using caffeine while we insist on the dangers of not getting enough sleep,» Vanini says.

I'm particularly confused by the idea that traditionally published books are not included.

Many investors are still surprised and confused by this idea, however, so I thought it was time to take another look.

But back to risk... I am confused by this idea.

Ofili, who was 30 at the time of the controversy and raised Catholic, told the Guardian of the piece, «As an altar boy, I was confused by the idea of a holy Virgin Mary giving birth to a young boy.

«As an altar boy, I was confused by the idea of a holy Virgin Mary giving birth to a young boy,» Ofili once said.

Ofili, 30, said: «As an altar boy, I was confused by the idea of a holy Virgin Mary giving birth to a young boy.

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Some simply confuse, «sink [ing] a good idea by so muddling a conversation in people's minds, they begin to wonder if your proposal really makes sense.»

Those new to stock trading might be confused at first by the idea of «stocks» and «shares» and the million other terms related to the stock market.

I was a bit confused by the red A idea (I was thinking «The Scarlet Letter»), until I went and checked out the site you refer to.

The major Reformers were frightened by this move, and we have to sympathize with them It is too easy to confuse various impulses and ideas that arise in one's mind with the guidance of God.

According to a 1994 essay in the New York Review of Books by John Maynard Smith, the dean of British neo-Darwinists, «the evolutionary biologists with whom I have discussed his [Gould's] work tend to see him as a man whose ideas are so confused as to be hardly worth bothering with, but as one who should not be publicly criticized because he is at least on our side against the creationists.

I agree but add: God had no alternative to willing that there be some free creatures, first because (pace Alston) the idea of not creating at all could occur (if I may say so) only to a confused creature, second because, as Peirce, Bergson, and Whitehead have seen, by a «creature» we can consistently mean only a lesser form of the freedom or creativity which in eminent form is deity.

Some of the most commanding ideas and most significant theological controversies in the Old Testament, from the days of the Exile on, were associated with the struggles of Judaism over this confusing and often agonizing problem of individual injustice in a world governed by «powerful Goodness.»

I was not «attacking», I was pointing out how she admitted that her own kid is confused by her inconsistencies, so ya think maybe she shouldn't be inflicting her incoherent ideas onto other people's children??

There was first his return to the original argument without, we may say, benefit of Descartes, who confused the issue by asking for the cause of the idea of God.

I think a lot of your ideas could really apply to vegan travel anywhere — not confusing the waitstaff by trying to explain «vegan,» being polite, etc..

Count me amongst the confused: Are you moms all blown apart by the fact that someone called you on the idea that carrying a baby in a baby - sling (or, for that matter, ten to fifteen pounds, say, of any kind of deadweight) might cause back pain (which it, pretty obviously, would)?

You're the parents of twins or multi-age children and love the idea of the side - by - side stroller, but you are confused to buy the one thinking of not being able to fit through the doorways.

I knew that I wouldn't use an Opiate or a Caine derived drug BEFORE I was pregnant, so it confused me as to why people would be so shocked by the idea of NOT using controlled substances when there was a baby inside me.

so it confused me as to why people would be so shocked by the idea of NOT using controlled substances when there was a baby inside me.

Do you feel overwhelmed by the idea of weaning your baby and confused by what you should offer at each stage of the process?

In fact, it seems that Similac confuses the concept of mothers supporting and respecting one another, a practice much favored by our own LLLI, with the idea that feeding choices have equal consequences.10

But that idea was confusing to many because GDF11 is very similar to the protein myostatin, which prevents muscle stem cells from differentiating into mature muscle — the opposite effect to that seen by Wagers and her team.

I'm not sure when I decided it was a good idea to start dressing like a sack of rocks or that trying to choke myself on a half - assed turtle neck jumper would be fun but don't worry, I'm just as confused by this outfit as you are.

Just a head's up that students in your class will scoff at the idea that anyone could be confused by the original version of the question I put above.

Teachers routinely comment that they are either confused or overloaded - neither of which contributes to the likelihood for «new» plans and ideas of leaders being carried out effectively by teachers.

She said that states should be able to decide whether schools receiving public funds must follow the requirements of the law; challenged by Hassan to clarify her views, DeVos said she «may have confused» the fact that IDEA is a federal civil rights law.

As noted in Meeting Wise: Making the Most of Collaborative Time for Educators, it's appropriate for educators in meetings «to feel challenged by the exchange of ideas and the weight of the objectives, but not to feel confused by a lack of clarity about purpose, process, or next steps.

The process might seem confusing or complicated, but before you resort to hiding your money under the mattress (bad idea, by the way), learn more about how savings account...

The process might seem confusing or complicated, but before you resort to hiding your money under the mattress (bad idea, by the way), learn more about how savings accounts work, the different types of savings accounts, and how to compare savings accounts to find the right one for you.

Skip these cards if: You get confused by points and like the idea of cash back.

Because I'm an American, and I'm generally confused by these contraptions when I see them overseas, I have no idea what the «various spray options» are.

The tonal similarities in the voices of these two characters make the game's opening cinematic so confusing that until about half - way through the game I had no idea which side I was fighting on (it's The Resistance by the way).

The idea of public versus private importance is confused by the display of personal objects, such as a collection of tooth molds or transit stubs, in the gallery setting.

Don't you think «we» the AARP generation have great opportunity to look back and tell Generation E where we went wrong on sustainability based on the evidence of our mistakes of hoarding, confusing the idea of more equaling happiness and most noticeably by the very visible evidence of destroying our environment for McMansion's, SUV's and DVD player «s.?

The idea of an evaporation thermostat was proposed in the 1970's by Newell, and was based on erroneous reasoning confusing correlation with causation; when one does the physics, one finds that evaporation increases the air - sea coupling, but can't prevent a warming if the atmosphere itself warms.

ii) They were probably confused by the observation of a cooling stratosphere whilst the sun was more active when the established ideas would have expected a warming stratosphere from a more active sun.

If that isn't worth the effort for you, I can understand, but I really do hate the idea of people being confused by something I've said.

First, there is the problem of Lewandowsky's assumptions: he confuses categories of economic and environmental ideas; he fails to test for conspiracy theories that might be more coincident with environmentalism than the ones he chose, (for example the idea that climate scepticism is a phenomenon produced by covert PR operations, paid for by fossil fuel companies); and he fails to achieve a robust definition of climate scepticism.

One very frustrating and confusing aspect of the global warming debate is the idea's generally supported by warmists to replace fossil fuel for energy.

(Spencer doesn't agree with Trenberth's conclusion — but he starts by explaining the confused idea that LH mentioned (likely from Wattsup et al.)-RRB-