Sentences with phrase «muddy the waters by»

«The attempt to shift perceptions are hampered by Macy's muddying the water by including the Backstage discount concept in mainstream stores,» Saunders wrote in a note to clients earlier this year.

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 when they muddy water by pretending that science confirms the God, myths and fables of the Bible, then that is just preposterous.

Some players talk about how fan support helps them in home games — The Twelfth Man and all that — but then other players muddy the waters by saying a loud crowd motivates them extra in away games.

He also seeks to further muddy the waters by bringing the PIPA controversy into this discussion.

«Only after redistricting put him in a tough battle for re-election, did Gibson start to muddy the waters by voting for a different budget proposal.

Oh, and a Cuomo flack tried to further muddy the waters by claiming the city is «solely responsible for funding [the subway's] capital plan,» which isn't remotely close to traditional practice of recent times.

But he muddied the waters by making his main theme a pledge to end Labour's culture of «big government».

I realize the writer (s) of this section of your report had this in mind, but feel they have muddied the waters by the way they expressed this issue.

The fossils form such a neatly graded series, getting less and less ape - like and more and more human as they get closer in time to the present, that the most earnest creationist can do little more than muddy the waters by inflating and distorting the existence of points of disagreement between specialists, or trying to revive long since discredited Homo sapiens specimens once claimed to have been from extremely ancient deposits.

One example: In the original story, the characters go to Hill House simply to see if it really is haunted.But in the new movie Self muddies the waters by turning the characters into insomniacs who think they're participating a sleep disorder study!

In one sense, the Golden Globes, voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, muddy the water by dividing the best actress, actor and picture categories into drama and musical or comedy, thereby doubling the number of nominees.

Mutual fund managers, of course, have a vested interest in trying to muddy the waters by making investors believe that the success of indexing is predicated on just how accurate a much - debated academic theory is.

Note: Most travelers booking Economy or Discount Economy fares will not be reaching a meaningful level of status (Silver or above) with British Airways so I have deliberatley not muddied the waters by taking status earning into consideration in this blog.

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.

The loan is in default but not before Minor muddied the waters by cutting a deal — and taking an advance — from Christie's.

Muddying the water by dumbing down the language isn't a solution, it will merely add to public misunderstanding.

In response, «merchants of doubt» have tried to muddy the waters by exaggerating scientific uncertainty.

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.

The double free - riding difficulties are aggravated by interest groups that muddy the water by providing misleading analyses of climate science and economic costs.

@ BA — 14 Oct 2012 @ 11:15 AM regarding trends (Speaking of which, Is it just my imagination, is it just my imagination, or is there a new trend from the denialoshpere to muddy the waters by misuse & misrepresentation of trends?)

As it was, the court muddied the waters by reinstating District Judge Million's award.

If you want your team to install the mobile app, don't muddy the waters by asking them to add three time entries, or upload 10 documents.

But the search giant muddied the waters by keeping Google Wallet around, albeit with reduced functionality — it only supported peer - to - peer payments between users in the US and UK, a la PayPal's Venmo.

Even worse, it continued to muddy the waters by upholding crazy abstract patents like the one for watching an advertisement online before getting access to copyrighted content.

Don't let hiring managers and recruiters muddy the waters by negotiating your salary package and benefits package at the same time.

Not exact matches

If you think the waters of righteousness have been muddy by hipocracy, of christians than please do point it out!

nb: To muddy the waters, I have a downer on «propositional truth» — why should God / the Bible be defined by ref to a 18th / 20th concept?

But let's face it, by the time the unheralded Bowen took her celebratory plunge into the moat by the 18th green on Sunday, the LPGA's biggest names had already muddied the waters.

After the defeat at Anfield it is hard for Arsenal fans to even consider us as tile challengers but maybe it also muddied the waters further by suggesting the Liverpool could be up for the title and Chelsea the top four.

The Frenchman seems to be getting his excuses in early this time, as a Daily Express report shows, by talking about how hard it is to sign good playes in January, due to lfewer top class players being available, clubs being less willing to sell and the competition from rival clubs muddying the waters.

There has been thousands of column inches in the last couple of years dedicated to whether Arsene Wenger will have a future at Arsenal at the end of this season, and of course the Frenchman himself has always muddied the waters whenever he is asked about it by the media.

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.

There is no doubt that Szczesny would not be happy returning to Arsenal, and he has gained a lot of respect in Italy since his departure from the Emirates, and now the Roma President Jim Pallota has muddied the waters even further, by saying that the Pole is very keen to stay in the Italian capital.

The cry for help has been thunderous especially as some water bodies residents depended on have all been polluted by galamsey operators — small scale mining works who have muddied the waterbodies.

Seeking to further muddy the waters in the wake of his candidate's dirty e-mail scandal, Caputo just dashed off a letter to state Inspector General Joseph Fisch demanding an investigation into the potential violation of the Public Officers Law by AG Andrew Cuomo aide Joe Percoco.

By making a speech on the subject, only vague references to which will be caught by the average Brit, he further muddies the water on a relatively straightforward issuBy making a speech on the subject, only vague references to which will be caught by the average Brit, he further muddies the water on a relatively straightforward issuby the average Brit, he further muddies the water on a relatively straightforward issue.

By the start of the bird migration season, skeptics point out, water flea eggs and dormant stages called «statoblasts» in bryozoans would have sunk to the muddy bottom, out of reach of foraging birds.

Documents, books and similar items soaked and muddied in the potentially sewage - laden flood waters produced by Hurricane Harvey may be salvageable with the use of electronic beam technology.

The muddying of coastal waters by climate change could drastically increase levels of neurotoxic mercury in sea life, contaminating food supplies.

According to Dohm, this is a likely indication that the elements were leached out of the soil by runoff water and concentrated in sediment on the muddy floor of a standing ocean.

Since sediment carried by Bayou Lafourche 1,200 to 600 years ago only contained about 20 percent sand, but an abundance of mud, the researchers suggest that land building can be maximized by gearing muddy diversions toward vegetated areas rather than to capture sandy deposits along the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Engorged by heavy spring rains, the river has overwhelmed both its east and west banks; a large industrial park northwest of Treasure Island is seen awash in muddy water.

By being «built up similarly,» the replicants muddy the waters of defining consciousness even further, he says.

«All they did, by muddying the water and confusing the public, is delay action to the point where necessary work to mitigate the effects is more expensive.»

And to muddy the waters a little more, you also have to factor in the potential for increasing the overall training load over the course of a training block by using techniques like ice baths and massages, even if they reduce the adaptations from a a single workout by a little bit (that would be a tough one to quantify).

A twisted, sprawling rat's nest of a story with enough characters and double - crosses to fill a warehouse, Inherent Vice muddied its own waters further by putting a burned out, stoned protagonist front and center.

By muddying the water with inaccurate statements about the intricacies of federal law and waivers, these officials seek to reduce opt - out numbers and buy time for discredited test - and - punish schemes.

We're not entirley sure the photo Porsche used in the presentation is the actual Macan (Jalopnik think Porsche has used a render by Auti Bild to muddy the waters for their dealers — just in case the presentation leaks) but it does seem clear that Porsche, at l; east initially, aims to provide the Macan with decent levels of Porsche power.

The waters get muddy by the fact the host author's world is being used as a basis for any new books in the series.