Sentences with phrase «still confounds»

It still confounds me that someone who was so obsessed with cooking... me... doesn't care any more.

The concept of having to ask for permission to perform tasks that contributed to my potential livelihood is something that still confounds me.

The immune system is a complex, amazing, and mind - boggling system designed in such a way that still confounds scientists and researchers to a point.

While this may accomplish orgasm the relationship goal of intimate connection is still confounded and ultimately lost.

Not exact matches

It confounds me that in a year of record lending by the Small Business Administration, entrepreneurs still struggle to get the financing they need even when all indicators point to the opportunity for growth.

But it's important to note that these results were from observational studies of healthy adults, and there could still be plenty of confounding factors that lead to dementia.

There is good reason to believe, then, that we are still early, that the bull is proceeding as it always has, confounding the great majority of experts, defying the well - armed but uncritical skeptics and taking its sweet time.

It still seems to confound B2B marketing and sales leaders.

Even if it was a good measure of altruism, the other problems with such experiments still apply, and «experimenter demand» effects are common confounding variables.

It is still there to trouble and confound us.

Racial segregation still prevailed in Texas during the 1940s, but Mexican - Americans confounded the easy dichotomies of black and white.

And such is my admiration for Theresa May's resilience in the face of adversity and setback after setback that I believe she could confound those predicting her demise and still be in No. 10 in 12 months» time.

Labour members still thought their MPs might see sense, show their humanity and were confounded at the lack of response campaigning organisations had received.

Still the conference has confounded the remaining 26 Democrats, who face a tougher climb in regaining power thanks to bloc.

In the late 1960s, this mechanism was still something of a mystery, confounding efforts to manipulate it.

The authors note their study used observational data so, despite adjustment for possible confounding factors, it still could be subject to confounding by personality, impulsivity, feeling of hopelessness or other cognitive factors.

But researchers were confounded by the observation that some E. lenta carriers still had the active drug in their blood.

All rely on molecular changes linked to aging, but must still overcome confounding factors such as individual variation and disease, which may speed or slow aging.

But Koenig asserts that several yet - to - be-published studies do control for confounding variables in the way that Sloan recommends and still show a positive effect of religion on health.

In the current study, she says, «they controlled for many confounding factors, but still hormonal contraceptive use was very, very small.

Although we addressed this issue in several ways, including the use of a natural experimental design exploiting the quasi-randomized assignment of patients to hospitalists, it is still possible that unmeasured confounding (eg, residual differences in socioeconomic status of patients that are not explained by patient race / ethnicity, Medicaid eligibility, and household income level) could explain the observed differences in patient outcomes.

@DC: It's always possible that there's some hidden confounding factor like that, but the assumption is that any behaviours like carb depletion (does anyone really still do that?)

Still, I hold on to both and there's no emotional or sentimental attachment, so this category confounds me at times.

And yet, Godard was (and still is) a commanding figure as much as he's a confounding one, and there can be no denying his importance to film history.

Hell, that would still have confounded expectations, coming from a man mostly known for sketch comedy.

Then again, now that I do some research, it appears that my actual first encounter with the character of the old man was in Jackass: The Movie, but you'll have to forgive me for forgetting that movie and trying to associate the character with a more pleasant — if still equally confounding — film.

A series of flashbacks designed to explain Uncle Charlie's presence, as well as his motives, are more confounding than clarifying; while the reveal isn't completely obvious, it still feels too convenient.

Despite these controls, people still worry that value - added estimates may be distorted, or, in statisticians» terms, «confounded.»

Still, researchers have conducted some clever tests to assess the likelihood of confounding.

While John is waking up to the fact that he still loves Eva, Eva is confounded by her own grief, and the three children deal with events in their own way, with much of the focus being on 15 - year - old Daisy as she deals with her loss via various secret acts of defiance, culminating in an affair with an older man.

Unfortunately, China is still a landscape that confounds publishers, despite the abundance of English - language consumers who could presumably purchase ebooks.

All of those experts are still waiting, though, as the bond market once again confounded skeptics in 2012 — albeit posting far more modest gains than in previous years.

Six full - color illustrations are given to each artist included: Brian Calvin, Anna Sew Hoy, Ron Nagle, Michael Reafsnyder, James Richards and Patrick Wilson — all of whom collapse the fictitious distinctions between art and craft, painting and ceramics, form and function, leisure and labor, still life and real life, confounding the boundaries between each.

Mr. Saul, at the age of 81, still delights in taking unpredictable routes with his artwork, and you could hear the subtle rise in his voice as he talked about his latest opportunity to confound viewers.

This tendency to seek out finds at a lower price point is still very alive today, Vierstraete added, and it can confound blue chippers who come with the big names in their stables.

That said, many in the media seem to confound some important things that are different (although related in some ways, but still different!)

Suppose you took every care to eliminate confounding variables and still believed that you had evidence to suggest that newborn babies were being harmed by fracking operations.

That still doesn't rule out the confounding problem with a single borehole, but sampling widely separated boreholes should significantly reduce the «common mode» errors.

Of course, we'll still face the onslaught of fossil fuel industries» well - funded efforts to confound the public, and there will be politicians who will never give science the time of day.

I hate to say it, but it was (and still is) a pleasure to confound people with mistaken conceptions!