Sentences with phrase «only muddy the waters»

religion has no place in politics, it only muddies the waters.
There's a lot here to unpack, but as scenes, characters and plot turns emerge they only muddy the waters of the story more.
Indeed, Oda's rambling, disjointed presentation only muddied the waters further.
Statistical significance is the elephant in the room in this discussion, and bandying words like «meaningful» and «significant» only muddies the waters.
As it stands, having to guess at its purpose or intent only muddies the water, in my humble opinion.
Partisan politics only muddies the water of the clear truth that wrong is always wrong.

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Still, even if it only has a short - term impact on prices it might muddy the water and make it a little hard to interpret the impact of copper price changes, but the price of other hard commodities, including iron ore, can help clarify the role of Chinese demand.
Along the way, though, you get a little more information and it not only broadens your perspective, but also muddies the water.
Don't let news people muddy the water, it only obscures the truth.
Taken in isolation they only serve to muddy the waters.6 Even in Process and Reality the transformation of God into an actual entity is not wholly complete, and to that extent there is some truth in the assertion that «what little influence Whitehead's God has on the actual world... he has as a principle, not as a being or person, and insofar as God is a personal being, he is without any effect on the actual world.
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....
«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.
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 issue.
Far from resolving the allegations surrounding the UK prime minister's principal media adviser, they have only served to muddy the waters further... There remains a need for a deeper inquiry.
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.
They may ask you to add salt, heat the water, throw the solution out if it becomes muddy and start over, run the unit for short periods of time only and other requirements.
I was bit a disappointed that not only does the game never really bring clarity to the ending of the original Dead Rising, it muddies the water even further for the franchise with its own murky ending.
Now, it only confuses the issue and muddies the waters when it comes to readers and booksellers.
Most scammers either keep on scamming or scurry away into the corner only to return under a different name, but a few have been doing what they can to muddy the water.
Not only are those softer soils slipping, wrecking roads and other infrastructure, the uneven land is spilling muddy water into lakes and streams.
Muddying the waters with vague statements and ambiguous announcements only jeopardises what little faith its user base has left in it.
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.
But, to be fair, this is only after Samsung decided to muddy the waters a bit.
Clearly GST and HST concerns only further muddy the water and back dating or altering commission payable on a previously accepted agreement without all parties knowing, along with all stakeholders, creates another problem for the REBATER.
We have always only tracked the residential space and feel that mixing in commercial brokers with residential firms muddies the waters as they're very different sectors.
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