Sentences with phrase «of head scratching»

After a bit of head scratching and suggestions of buying the car with a co-buyer who has a license, the sales manager stepped in and clarified it was possible to buy the vehicle solo.

After a bit of head scratching, I hit on the idea to use SOI to see what was happening.

The missions tend to fall into one of two categories - fetch quests and area cleansing - with the handful of head scratching puzzles clearly inspired by Monkey Island found few and far between.

It's a fun little concept and one that will no doubt lead to plenty of head scratching and frustrating «if only I had one more point to spend!»

This of course led to a divorce, more debt (from the settlement), and a long stretch of head scratching... wondering how it all could have possibly gone so wrong.

, I know there's a certain amount of head scratching that happens once you type that last sentence.

There was an awful lot of head scratching down at the cider mill after that.

But there was a lot of head scratching going on as many wondered, «Where is GMC's version?»

NBA Live 18 was shown off during EA's E3 2017 presentation which caused the usual bout of head scratching that anybody bothers to go up against the other basketball game everyone buys every year, but whatever.

After a bit of head scratching we made our presentation interesting by giving out bran muffins at the beginning, we tried to disguise the boringness of our topic by bringing out the food first, It sounds like our presentation was way more interesting than ours!

Not exact matches

The 10 - year yield touched a seven - month low of 2.52 % earlier today, and many folks are just scratching their heads.

If you're scratching your head, you're most likely a Millennial (a generation that lags far behind its Baby Boomer parents in terms of new vehicle sales).

That leaves the vast majority of us disappointed, frustrated, scratching our heads and questioning what went wrong.

Scotty had all of these, but there was still quite a bit of frustration and a few months of work interspersed with head scratching.

«If you looked at Toronto five years ago, you may have scratched your head and said we're sort of on a path but we're not sure we're on the right path,» he says.

«When it came out, people kind of scratched their heads a little bit,» says eMarketer analyst Bryan Yeager.

But while most of the more than 100 million TV viewers (and advertisers that spent millions) were scratching their heads, the people behind Oreo went and tweeted out the above ad mid-blackout.

Some of the issues I identified with the network equipment maker's Virtual Networking Index included the unlikelihood that Canadians use the internet more than Americans; Japan's similarly head - scratching low usage; the unexplained projections of how traffic is expected to grow in different countries; and why internet leaders such as the Nordic countries were grouped into a generic «Western Europe» category that may have skewed the entire study.

A web search for «Starting a business is like» turned up dozens of results that left me scratching my head.

For much of the past decade the plasma vs. LCD debate clogged web forums and left consumers scratching their heads.

Maybe you're scratching your head at this one because it's an elemental grammar mistake but I'm surprised at how often I hear «I seen» coming out of college - educated people's mouths.

Sometimes this has me scratching my head, and other times I'm in awe of these remarkable young people who are perched on the brink of accomplishing things never done before.

My dad didn't want me to be treated differently, so nobody was told I was part of the family, and everyone was scratching their heads wondering what I was doing.

When he left Nike at the end of last year, some scratched their heads; they continued scratching them when he moved to a digital currency startup.

Investors were left scratching their heads Wednesday after Lululemon (LULU) reported another disappointing round of results.

As for where their company is headed in the future, Konzelmann said they've just started to scratch the surface of products and services that are widely available and popular amongst a younger generation, but haven't yet been applied to seniors.

This is just one among numerous policy - making decisions that have members of both political parties, as well as independents, scratching their heads.

The father of the efficient markets hypothesis scratches his head over why active management still exists

Given the mixed signals generated by the whipsaw price action of September 18 and 20, combined with the price divergence among the major indices, investors and traders understandably may be scratching their heads right now.

People like Vinod Khosla, Keith Rabois, Brian Singerman, Marc Andreessen and others have all made head - scratching private comments to me that sounded so foreign to what I thought other people were doing in VC that they caused me to challenge and ultimately change some of my own views.

Institutional investors may be scratching their heads at why the widely watched measure of market concern known colloquially as the «fear index,» or VIX, recently reached a 23 - year low despite plenty of reasons for the sort of uncertainty that makes markets jittery.

Yet while institutional market users hail bitcoin as a new force that is capable of changing the administrative side of financial markets, average investors are still scratching their heads over its importance.To be sure, some

I always scratch my head when I hear advisors talk about the «4 % withdrawal rule» or any withdrawal rate that's greater than a risk free rate of return for that matter.

Well, if you're like a lot of first - time advertisers, then your prospect is now on your homepage scratching her head trying to figure out what just happened.

In the world of B2B management, there are numerous head scratching efforts going on as we peer ahead into 2012 and beyond.

The arrival of hybrid annuities into the marketplace is causing some head scratching in the advisor ranks.

This is probably the most entertaining on the list as half of the Internet seems to be concerned with the impact of the food, while the other half is scratching their heads, trying to decipher how the food can be so delicious.

That miss, and the explanation behind it, has a lot of people scratching their heads, so expect to hear a bit about it during the company's earnings call today.

At the turn of the new year, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon must have had a lot of financial services industry watchers scratching their heads after

Given the company's relatively strong position now and the uncertainty of the future, some Wall Street sources are scratching their heads wondering why the Nordstrom family would even consider cutting a deal that would give a new investor preferred shares, noting that the idea was likely thrown on the table to see what would trigger private equity interest.That has brought some private equity firms back in for another around of talks, but one source noted: «Private equity these days don't really want to commit any money to brick - and - mortar.

This is the kind of stuff that makes you scratch your head, but not a deal breaker just an eye opener.

«Recent record highs have extended months of investor optimism, and many rightfully are scratching their heads over just how far this bull market can run,» Loewengart says.

In the formative years of my trading career (late»90s), I frequently found myself scratching my head over an interesting problem.

On top of that, his 13F filing had many Buffett - watchers scratching their heads at some of his portfolio moves during the last quarter, including his disclosures that he had sold big chunks of Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson and ConocoPhillips (we thought these were «forever» holdings).

This latest statement was the beginning of them starting to scratch their heads and admit they don't have all the answers.

He looks to buy these businesses at low prices of course, but often times he pays a price that leave many value investors scratching their heads (i.e. paying over 20 times earnings for Heinz, and 20 % more than the stock's all time high).

The roller - coaster ride of all major altcoins including Bitcoins, Ethereum and the rest of the pack continued throughout the week, leaving much of the interested parties scratching their heads or hitting their foreheads on the wall.

In particular, things you don't understand was great; I've scratched my head on about seven of those at one time or another.

Albertans have an overwhelmingly low opinion of Ms. Redford's character and they are scratching their heads wondering why the party has not yet compelled her to resign.

The tumultuous and bizarre Michael Flynn era, the messy, infighting fueled Flynn - to - McMaster transition at the National Security Council, and the head - scratching austerity reign of Rex Tillerson at the State Department?