Sentences with phrase «puzzle over why»

Many Democrats, and even some Republicans, puzzle over why anyone would challenge Cuomo this year, with his massive financial advantage and the Democrats» structural enrollment advantage.

Kowalski says she's puzzled over why the review has not been conducted in public.

While most animals recover, the pattern has veterinarians puzzled over why the outbreaks persist.

Astronomers have puzzled over why our solar system looks so different.

Dr. Delitto, a physical therapist, and his SHRS colleagues have long puzzled over why some patients reacted well to physical therapy (PT) and others to surgery.

Young animals recover from tissue damage better than adults, and from Charles Darwin's time until now, scientists have puzzled over why this is the case.

Researchers have always puzzled over why the mother allows an embryo, which is basically a parasite, to settle in and grow.

Scientists have long been puzzled over why some species of amphibians are on the decline while others stay healthy.

Biologists have long puzzled over why certain mossy plants are found only in the Arctic and at the very tip of South America, but not in between.

Based on existing knowledge of earthquakes in this area, seismologists puzzled over why the earthquake rupture propagated from the underground fault all the way up to the seafloor, creating a massive upward thrust that resulted in the tsunami.

Olson was puzzled over why second and third grade students were not achieving proficiency on state reading tests, so the district began adjusting teaching practices and curriculum.

One could spend a visit puzzling over why much of the work is there — and why other histories are not.

For anyone still puzzling over why I view the Tea Party to be an egregiously destructive force when it comes to the environment, look no further than this evidence: In the seven months since the Tea

For anyone still puzzling over why I view the Tea Party to be an egregiously destructive force when it comes to the environment, look no further than this evidence: In the seven months since the Tea Party - led GOP has been in control of the House of Representatives, they have voted no fewer than 110 times to «block» or «undermine» efforts to protect the environment, according to a recent report..

I am surprised by the number of appellate level decisions in Canada that rule correctness is the applicable standard to review a ministerial decision, and I must admit to being somewhat puzzled over why this has become an issue.

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It is especially puzzling why the deity of traditional free will theism, who created the universe for the sake of soul - building, would have taken over 10 billion years simply to set the stage, employing an evolutionary process involving hundreds of millions of years of animal suffering prior to the rise of human beings.

The puzzling factor is why the underlying strength of the Australian economy over an extended period hasn't translated into a better performance on the sharemarket.

What Calleri has to offer remains a mystery to me and why he is preferred over Ashley Fletcher despite contributing little is puzzling.

This fact has undermined Arsenal's performance over several seasons, with pundits and analysts wondering why the obvious solution to Arsenal's midfield weakness, the missing piece to solve the puzzle, was never addressed sufficiently.

So let's just say that I think about human behavior a lot, whether that involves puzzling over relationships, behavior change, or why humans do what they do (this election has provided plenty of fodder in the latter department).

«And it's a puzzle to explain why the energy removed from the water table by evaporative cooling doesn't just ice things over.»

Scientists have puzzled over the mysteries of tickling for millennia, with Aristotle famously asking why most people can't tickle themselves.

One puzzle for scientists to figure out is why the chemistry of hydrothermal vents changes, not only among locations, but over temporal scales as well.

«We now appear to be closing in on an explanation as to why the solar corona is over 100 times hotter than the solar surface — the solution to a 55 - year old puzzle,» said Dr. George Withbroe, Director of the Sun - Earth Connection Program at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC.

One mystery that the researchers puzzled over was why the seismicity only appeared to be associated with one saltwater disposal well, as there are more than 200 such wells active in the Barnett Shale production region.

Marcus is bewildered by the sequence of events that led to this moment, and spends the next few days puzzling over exactly why she chose to do what she did.

It's a little embarrassing to admit having never seen any of the «Mad Max» films in their entirety before, but after finally getting around to watching the cult classic trilogy over the weekend, I'm still puzzled as to why they're so popular.

Why does the Riddler take the time and presumably money to set up tiny, irritating puzzles all over Gotham in order to improve his arch enemy's skills?

Puzzled at why a green conference was allowing so much printing to happen, I flipped the catalogue over and saw that it is printed by New Leaf Paper, and the stats on how much energy, water, trees, solid waste and greenhouse gasses were avoided by using the recycled, chlorine - free paper made me realize that a highly professional conference can be done in a very green way.

One question which has always puzzled me is this: why didn't the Kochs et al simply look at the science in the mid 1990s and start changing their businesses over to renewables?

Over the course of writing the book we had many conversations, and during one while we were puzzling over explaining why certain folks acted the way they did, he suggested tOver the course of writing the book we had many conversations, and during one while we were puzzling over explaining why certain folks acted the way they did, he suggested tover explaining why certain folks acted the way they did, he suggested this.

Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years.

Puzzled as to why Figure 1 above (from Liu et al., 2010) seems to have a data hole over North Africa.