Sentences with phrase «seized on the confusion»
Whether any rebellion would have had sufficient support is unclear, but opposition parties seized on the confusion to claim the government was being forced into doing the right thing.
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Optimism within New York's downtrodden Republican Party, which is seizing on the Schneiderman situation and its resulting confusion to present an alternative.
In «E-cigarettes: Public Health England's evidence - based confusion,» the editors of The Lancet seized on the methodological limits of one of the many studies on which the review had relied.
On issues such as CRISPR and genetic engineering the EU is regulating itself out of the competition and many businesspeople are unaware that this will get much worse once the ECJ starts using the Charter of Fundamental Rights to seize control of such regulation for itself, which will mean not just more anti-science regulation but also damaging uncertainty as scientists and companies face the ECJ suddenly pulling a human rights «top trump» out of the deck whenever they fancy (one of the many arguments Vote Leave made during the referendum that we could not get the media to report, partly because of persistent confusion between the COFR and the ECHR).