Sentences with phrase «confusing language of»

The Court moved away from the confusing language of material contribution to injury and toward the more intuitive common sense inference of causation

«I have found myself increasingly chastised by climate change campaigners when my public statements and lectures on climate change have not satisfied their thirst for environmental drama and exaggerated rhetoric... Why is it not just campaigners, but politicians and scientists too, who are openly confusing the language of fear, terror and disaster with the observable physical reality of climate change, actively ignoring the careful hedging which surrounds science's predictions?»

Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

God frustrates this endeavor by confusing the languages of men and scattering them.

The stream - beds of Iglesias's installational sculptures appear like a surface of tree roots, or the mineral build - ups of a cave, merging the architectural interior of the gallery with a natural exterior — intentionally confusing the languages of sculpture, installation and Architecture.

Not exact matches

Niccol went on to explain to the confused investors that, in the language of Twitter, «on fleek» means «on point.»

We've found a few of our favorite features — like some fancy natural language processing to personalize information — are, sadly, rarely used or too darn confusing.

During virtual meetings, both the facilitators and the participants miss the benefit of body language and vocal cues, making it hard to «read the room» or notice when someone has checked out, gotten frustrated, is confused, or even excited.

«I can't tell you some of the language people use in e-mails directed to us who confuse us with Canadian Pharmacy and their spammy marketing practices,» says David Zimmer, president and owner of The Canadian Pharmacy.

The language around student loans gets confusing fast, but some of the most perplexing terms have to do with income - driven repayment plans....

And I wrote with using a very simple plain language because a personal pet peeve of mine is that finances intentionally kept kind of opaque and confusing because I think it's meant to keep most people ignorant of how the system actually works.

We must not be confused by Whitehead's atomistic language as some of his disciples apparently are; the so - called «epochal theory of time» is atomistic only in name.

My question was whether the language of «metaphysics» and «ontology» can be «heard» when mounting that defense in today's confused culture; my suggestion was that the language of biblical realism might have a better chance of providing an effective response to the regnant Gnosticism.

@Tom — Do you mean is it interesting that HS uses the word «babble» a lot because it's likely the root word comes from the Tower of Babel where the bible claims the languages were confused, much like HS is in every post?

Eric: Please don't confuse unity and tolerance with the lack of argument, debate, heated discussion, or even bad language.

nakedpastor said, on December 10th, 2009 at 2:36 pm Eric: Please don't confuse unity and tolerance with the lack of argument, debate, heated discussion, or even bad language.

The tower being destroyed by God, the people scattered, and their languages confused)(Genesis 11:1 - 9) even describes the bricks of the ziggurats being made of clay and asphalt, another find that was proven true.

he parodies the Genesis story of the Tower of Babel, where no one understood another's language or method and everything had become confused.

So, in the biblical account the tower of Babel was destroyed by God as judgement about them and then confusing them with giving them different languages so they didn't understand each there for making it impossible to work together to build another tower.

There are certain words I sometimes think we should drop from the English language because they have gotten so confused and have created great harm for many of us.

The Christian call to peacemaking has been co-opted, the group said, when «a «theology of war» is emanating from the highest circles of American government; the language of «righteous empire» is employed... [and] the roles of God, church and nation are confused by talk of an American «mission» and «divine appointment» to «rid the world of evil.»»

When these two orders are confused, as they often are, we find ourselves in a mixture of language - games and can not extricate ourselves.

While what you have here looks amazing, it would be great to see language that more accurately represents your recipes, as this kind of wording may be confusing for people who aren't as informed and don't realize they are actually consuming a good amount of sugar when they eat this.

Many parents of toddlers are confused about what constitutes normal language development.

Your baby speaks a language that is unique, complex, often confusing, and some of this communication is very subtle.

Despite the lack of language, the donor - conceived authors do not seem confused or maladjusted by the structure of their families.

Drawing upon evidence from the debates over healthcare reform in both the U.S. and the U.K., where Palin's propagation of the idea of death panels and Labour's insistence that Gove's reforms constituted privatisation «pure and simple» served only to confuse and scare the wider public, Thompson argued that misleading and emotive language is making political reform and compromise harder to achieve.

Either he is economically illiterate (possible, but unlikely) or he is adding to the Coalition Government's woes by using confusing language which makes it even harder for ordinary voters either to understand the scale of the problem, or the likely sacrifices to come in order to tackle it.

Orwell's study of how language is used to lie and confuse, to make us weak and obedient, is a far more radical prospect, and one that is therefore avoided at all costs by the political and media class.

«They will be not only upset but very confused about why anybody would do that, so it's disturbing that the governor's office and the office of budget management would do this change to the budget language.»

While Dyson's language is at times awkward and his chronology confusing, the sheer outlandishness of the forgotten space endeavor is nothing less than fascinating.

«It is exciting that each of these groups learn about speech sounds the same way, but what is really confusing is that only babies are ultimately successful at learning a new language really well,» says Maye.

As a result of those subtle differences, English - only speakers might, in some cases, confuse the «ba» and «pa» sounds they hear in Spanish, explains co-author Andrew Lotto, associate professor of speech, language and hearing sciences at the University of Arizona.

Moreover, it suggests that we seem to use specific strategies for making sense of confusing information — the «noise» interfering with the signal conveyed in language, as researchers think of it.

In addition, his arguments are often confusing: to support claims for the «oneness» of mankind, he provides a brief account of the linguist Noam Chomsky's theories of a «language acquisition device», although even if this could be demonstrated to exist, it is difficult to see why it would prove that «human thought and behaviour are entirely universal» and that the development of science in Europe was therefore «utterly accidental».

To help with bewildering double - meanings and confusing grammar in spoken language, scientists are creating complex statistical programs in which computers break down language into pairs of words, learning which words tend to come before which other words.

That's the kind of language that scares and confuses the public, says toxicologist Andre Nel of the University of California, Los Angeles.

I read those sewing instructions about three times and they just got more and more confusing to the point where I kind of thought that maybe they were in a foreign language.

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Since 1995, the website has provided clear definitions for anyone confused by the ever - changing language of the internet.

Every meeting with a functionary of the empire is a confusing thicket of procedural language and polite discourse, apologies and excuses that end up leading nowhere.

In Arrival (not to be confused with David Twohy's 1996 movie The Arrival) professor of languages Dr. Louise Banks (Amy Adams) is headed to work when news of an alien landing spreads.

That language is a bit confusing, because Title I is a formula grant program where districts receive fixed allocations based on the number of poor students they serve, as well as the overall funding levels in the state.

Much of what we once thought we knew — that speaking two languages is confusing for children, that it poses cognitive challenges best avoided — is now known to be inaccurate.

And while the story is a retelling of God / Jehovah confusing their languages and scattering the people across the globe, they were all children of the same family.

Many math teachers do not realize that the language of math can be confusing to students and that students must understand the concepts behind the language.

They found that many professionals were confused or unaware of how to differentiate between English language acquisition and learning disabilities.

Overall, solid stats and figures, although I wish Amazon (and Apple, to name another culprit) would be a little more direct with their statistics, instead of couching things in intentionally - confusing language that requires decoding and sounds better than it really is.

In case you've heard confusing language saying that Pottermore was «asking» retailers to DRM copies, a bit of info from Jones on a private e-mail chain will help you.