Sentences with phrase «to puzzle over»

I had many brokers puzzle over why I would not buy their deals, even though they were cheap relative to their ratings.

It is absolutely * not * the same puzzle over and over, as others have said.

I actually prefer detective / mystery games with clever puzzles over the basic object search, as long as they are clever and not too easy or way too difficult.

There has also been an improvement in the localization of the text clues for the word puzzles over the first game, which is a huge plus.

You may find yourself starting puzzles over again as one false move could end up killing one of your clones and destroying your progress.

With basic graphics and no real soundtrack, the game's focus on complex puzzles over visuals pays off, with just the right amount of difficulty to keep most people occupied.

The Duke group is still puzzling over how to translate their microbiome findings into practical treatments for premature infants.

Professor Larry Barham, Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, added: «Archaeologists have long puzzled over what these round stones were used for — they're about the size of a tennis ball but much heavier.

Physicists still puzzle over what makes up dark energy, along with another unexplained cosmic constituent, dark matter, an additional kind of mass that must exist to explain observations of how galaxies and galaxy clusters rotate.

Scientists have long puzzled over how the particles form, however.

«After years of puzzling over how its grant - review process might be shortchanging younger scientists, the National Institutes of Health appears to have figured out a more fundamental truth: There just aren't enough of them applying,» reporter Paul Basken writes in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

This exposure to multiple complex chemical structures that carry out the processes of life is probably a reason that most molecular biologists do not spend a lot of time puzzling over whether viruses are alive.

And it is vital reading for anyone mystified as to why Donald Trump keeps winning in the US when all the experts say he should be losing, and anyone who puzzles over where Jeremy Corbyn gets his votes from.

What I found puzzling over the years is how teams like Porto able to acquire talents like Hulk, Falcao and with all our resources, we fail to bring real world class quality to our club?!

This adds a little to the experience of crop farming, giving you a bit to puzzle over when planting anew.

While puzzling over this behavior, Frail and Kulkarni learned that Jeremy Goodman of Princeton University already was predicting this effect.

I have been puzzling over in case your web hosting is OK?

Researchers puzzled over what sparked the fires, but a new study offers a possible explanation.

As scientists puzzle over how genes for antibiotic resistance arise in various environments and what risks to human health they might pose, one team has identified a surprising way some of these genes are getting into ocean sediments: through food for marine fisheries.

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.

But researchers are still puzzling over where and how the brain combines these two very different types of sensory information.

Levison reached this conclusion after puzzling over the number of objects in the Oort cloud, the spherical collection of frozen comets and other icy debris that surrounds our solar system.

Physicists had been puzzling over something called radioactive beta decay, in which one kind of atom changes into another.

Researchers videotaped the squirrels» foraging trials and found that once the critters got over their frustration, they tried new tactics, such as biting the box, flipping it, dragging, and generally spending time puzzling over how to open the box.

JOHN HOW is left puzzling over an information card attached to his new laptop adaptor.

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

Each novel shape contains multiple bully sticks twisted together to create a fun and compelling shape that dogs will puzzle over during chew time.

London Spy, premiering Jan. 21 on BBC America, is a complex, sometimes cryptic import that is worth puzzling over.

But if you're at the office puzzling over a problem late in the afternoon one day and have the impulse to enjoy a drink to get the ideas flowing, this research suggests that you should feel free to go ahead.

I'm not done puzzling over God's word to the woman in Genesis 3:16, connecting pain in childbirth, desire for her husband, and his ruling over her.

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.

Archaeologist Robin Beck has spent decades puzzling over the missing ruins of North Carolina's Fort San Juan.

«The evolutionary changes required to build the giraffe's imposing structure and to equip it with the necessary modifications for its high - speed sprinting and powerful cardiovascular functions have remained a source of scientific mystery since the 1800s, when Charles Darwin first puzzled over the giraffe's evolutionary origins,» said Cavener, a professor of biology and the Verne M. Willaman Dean of the Eberly College of Science at Penn State.

I just puzzled over who should sue for defamation for character.

Riddle of the Burial Grounds puzzles over signs, forms and communication, motivated by one of the major problems facing our planet — the markings and warnings around nuclear burial sites.

Who hasn't puzzled over an insurance policy's rules of co-payments, deductibles, «in - network» and «out - of - network» payments — only to surrender in frustration and write a check, perhaps under threat of collection?

Evolutionary theorists have puzzled over such altruistic behaviors, particularly among unrelated creatures, because selfishness often seems like a better survival strategy in the context of natural selection.

In his 1859 masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin puzzled over how ants could — generation after generation — produce workers that would serve the colony — but were sterile.

Davis is also puzzling over how to ensure that NCEAS remains neutral and nonpartisan while moving into the world of serving clients outside the scientific community who may have strong opinions on issues of the day.

But the company's most beloved customer may have been an elderly gentleman who spent $ 1 million on Stave puzzles over two decades.

Before the release, Sony puzzled over the name of their new device.

Rather than puzzle over soft drink sizes, many consumers simply pick a size and stick with it, ordering a medium or a large at every restaurant even though these words have different meanings depending on the establishment.

If it's not blatantly obvious how it will scale, you'll have your colleagues puzzling over it for hours.

While this is bad news for the planet, it's good news for climate change scientists who have — for the last two decades — puzzled over warming trends in ocean surface temperatures for nearly 20 years.

While ICF makers puzzle over whether to target buyers, builders or distributors, one of the most dramatic and lucrative construction opportunities of the decade may be passing them by.

Then the group puzzles over a company that raised a $ 4 million round from a rival firm shortly after the CaaS system had determined it was unfit for investment.