Sentences with phrase «muddy the water when»

We muddy the water when we try to share it with others because often, we ourselves are unclear about what the Gospel is.
An allegiance to Van Persie, the star - power of Falcao and the special dispensation afforded to Rooney muddied the water when it came to the strikeforce selection last season.
The Tories issued a briefing note this morning trying to muddy the waters when it comes to complains about «political micromanagement».
Now, it only confuses the issue and muddies the waters when it comes to readers and booksellers.
2) Inconsistencies between the Sales Dashboard, Monthly Sales, and Book Ranking: Another thing that muddies the waters when trying to verify the correlation of rank to sales / borrows is that the KDP dashboard's cutoff times for a day's sales and borrows are based in different time zones: effectively 5 PM PST versus midnight PST.
Whether you're thinking about buying a big - ticket item (we need a vacation) or smaller impulse purchases (I need a double tall latte with Venetian chocolate), your sense of entitlement can muddy the waters when it comes to what you want and what you really need.
Most of us talk to our dogs a lot, so it's easy for verbal praise to get lost in the constant barrage of words that they hear — which muddies the waters when we're trying to communicate.
Anyone that routinely searches for hotels knows resort fees really muddy the waters when you're shopping.
Once you have made it, though, plenty of other steps come next and often seem to muddy the water when looking at them just from the vantage point of step 1.

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Just when it looked like Dara Khosrowshahi's tenure as CEO of Uber was coming into focus, the genial executive has muddied the water by buying, of all things, a bike - sharing startup called Jump.
But to the everyday man in the street, they muddy the waters slightly when deciding on an investing strategy with Vanguard UK.
Careful when you begin to look for dirt as you will find it until you discover that when you simply muddy waters it is you who ends up loosing out on the alternative which looks for good.
But when they muddy water by pretending that science confirms the God, myths and fables of the Bible, then that is just preposterous.
You forgot the quote a page before concerning women dressing decently when they prophesy in church, there Paul assumed that women would be speaking, but why muddy the waters with reality when you can lift a quote to suit your purposes?
The plot thickens when it comes to the Arsenal transfer rumours about the Leicester City and Algerian international star Riyad Mahrez after a source from the player's current club muddied the waters even further by claiming that, contrary to popular belief, Arsenal did not even try to sign Mahrez last summer.
with this situation, which is undoubtedly Wenger created, the waters are so muddy now I'm not sure things can return to normal... no matter what is said through official club channels, this is clearly their fault... when they rolled the dice with the whole Sanchez negative media spin to protect Wenger, when he didn't start Sanchez against Liverpool last season, (how ironic) they sunk to a new low... it's become too easy to deceive, just think of all the manufactured lies that have come from the mouths of Wenger and Gazidis since we've arrived at the Emirates... the only reason we allowed them to happen for so long is that we hoped it would eventually lead to something of some consequence and all would be forgiven... well I don't forgive them and I certainly won't forget anytime soon... the worst part is the lies are oftentimes so juvenile that you can only conclude that the club must think that we're a bunch of intellectually challenged 10 year olds....
This is one of our favourites — Coloured water fun from There's Just One Mummy — although when we do it everything ends up a muddy brown!
For example, when Jones writes about the first multi-drug-resistant plasmid — a transmissible ring of DNA — emerging in a strain of plague in Madagascar, he muddies the water with unclear uses of «it».
It fizzes and bubbles when you mix it with water and forms a soft moussey, muddy texture.
I hate to break it to you, but we're never going to recapture the Summer of Love experience in muddy upstate New York when we're standing on beautifully manicured grass Instagramming a Tupac hologram — and the other hand's clutching a bottle of water, not making a peace sign.
The explosion of Internet dating has also muddied the waters in terms of when an actual breakup is necessary, she says.
Aim for its least protected parts - the legs and belly - and use Fire when its clean, Water when it's muddy and Ice whenever to keep it on its toes.
Location: Wildspire Waste Element: N / A Weak points: Legs, underbelly, tail Weakest to: Water (when muddy), Fire (when clean), Ice Ailment Attack (s): Muddy, Waterblights
of torque that combines well with the quick and smooth shifting 6 - speed automatic that features decently low gearing for climbing hills of muddy wet grass even when fitted with all - season low - rolling resistance Continental tires that seem more oriented to pounding pavement than cutting trailis To prove the point that the Evoque is a real Range Rover we forded water that appeared to be 2 - feet deep in spots and enough water hit the turbo to produce spurts of steam through the clearly functional hood vents.
Muddying the waters somewhat is the distinction between when Sherlock Holmes was published in the UK versus the US.
The trouble comes in when people perceive the mixed breed as a single breed, as in «Mixed Breed dogs are healthier than purebreds, aren't as high - strung as purebreds, are friendlier than purebreds, live longer than purebreds, etc.» Recent attempts to denigrate purebreds as genetically unfit animals bred by greedy exploiters go overboard in extolling the virtues of mixed breed dogs and muddy the waters.
When it starts raining at our house, we have a drill - run up and grab 5 - 6 rugs and 3 - 4 towels put the rugs out underneath the dog doors incoming and outgoing go throw two door mats on the part of the grass that gets the muddiest bring in another water bowl so as to cut -LSB-...]
And when those muddy days line up, most of the dirt can be washed just with plain lukewarm water.
You also get wet in rain / water and even muddy when rolling around.
Their orders are to evacuate VIPs from Shanghai but the waters are muddied when the story lacks clarity and goes off on unnecessary tangents.
Why crawl through muddy water and trek through a swap in an attempt to find rival soldiers, when you can very easily turn into a squid and slide to the other side of the skate park and ink all those who oppose you?
As to «getting more complicated», they are muddying the waters by bringing up Ortwyn Freyermuth's history in the complaint — when the reality it's inconceivable they failed to notice he was someone they'd dealt with before and didn't raise the matter whilst they drew up the Game Licence Agreement.
Mud gathers on the car and water splashes onto the camera when driving through a muddy or watery surface respectively, oil positioned on the track by an opposing car obscures a significant quantity of your vision through the camera and covers the car momentarily.
My gut on this: I do not mind Prince / Gogo getting their comeuppance — the schadenfreude quotient is high — but Prince is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to appropriation, and this ruling by Batts muddies the waters and complicates conventional artistic practice across the board.
Flood water can be difficult to see in photo - like satellite images, particularly when the water is muddy.
Farmers in temperate zones all over the world already know that the planting season is coming weeks and months earlier than it used to — they would benefit from knowing how this change is going to pan out, and they will get far better answers when people stop muddying the waters by promoting obfuscatory nonsense from the same professional liars that spent years trying to delay anti-tobacco legislation.
I explained this problem years ago using a water bowl analogy, showing how the true temperature signal gets «muddy» when data from surrounding stations is used to infill missing data:
When it comes to Agenda 21, the paranoia and conspiracy theorists just muddy the waters on sustainability, which basically is an effort to develop responsibly while maintaining the world's beauty, which we've got plenty of here in the mountains... As a friend said to me, «if not sustainability, do you want unsustainability?»
But when there is confusion about the basics adding complexity just muddies the water needlessly.
The ruling muddies the water as to triggering events and the parties have been ordered to complete more discovery to determine when the essential manifestation occurred in this instance.
All of that just muddies the water during a time when it's so hard to find clarity.
My goal with therapy is to help you clear away some of that mud to make the water around you more clear; and to help prepare you for when times will inevitably get muddy again, giving you the tools and strategies you need to live like the lotus - at ease in muddy water.
When we add real estate and other assets into the mix and we are trying to make trades based on the values of these things, the water can get a little muddied.
I certainly don't lean toward HWR's arguments at all, but so as to not muddy the waters I'd rather not when countering his anecdotes deal in the same and would prefer to dispense with this 80/20, 90/10, 95/5 myth once and for all because I've yet to see a source cited for these stats much less the methodology used to arrive at same.
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