Sentences with phrase «which confounded»

This unambiguous disclosure is in stark contrast to previous statements which confounded regulatory emissions (emissions net of credits granted for early action, contributions to technology funds, etc.) and actual emissions.

Unlike Knights, which confounded many gamers with its dense intermingling of divergent game mechanics, Gungnir's aspirations fall obliquely within the strategy role - playing realm.

Neat and compact but with several bells and whistles which confounded me at first.

My streak of good luck with Anthropologie's skirts came to a grinding halt with the Ponte Bell Skirt ($ 128), a piece which confounded me so.

There was a 5 % decline in the number of R&D employees, which confounded all biotech sectors..

Knowing Carolina likes to sit back with six or seven men in protection (including a tight end and the fullback), Wade Phillips dialed up a lot of blitzes in man - coverage schemes, which confounded the Panthers protection schemes and gave Newton very little time to let plays develop downfield.

For every claimed moral absolute, one can contrive a scenario which confounds the alleged absolute.

Lastly, regardless of absolute dating, the relative positions of fossils clearly show a progressive order which confounds literal creationism, i.e. this order simply can not be explained by the various «flood geology» models.

Psychologists have puzzled long and hard over savant skills, which confound their traditional understanding of intelligence.

«Sen does not even outline a procedure for establishing which confounding variables must be controlled,» says Gary Kleck, a criminologist at Florida State University in Tallahassee.

Third, genes involved in pheromone detection are often species - specific and functional orthologues are typically lacking in the human genome, which confound their detection by comparative genomic methods [22].

A limitation in comparing sequences with two levels of embedding against one is the inclusion of an extra pair of motifs that necessitates a longer sequence duration, which confounds distance and item effects.

To recognize simultaneous time («timultaneity») in «The Spanners Series,» ALL of it is written in the present tense, which confounds many readers and reviewers, until they get used to it.

When confronted with a game which confounds that manner, they rate it harshly in an attempt to drive those irregularities out of the market and shift it into a direction they feel comfortable with.

Making no assumption about spectrum is 3 times closer to our observed temperature than the hypothesis which confounds spectrum, a specific extreme spectrum, and total irradiance.

Which confounds the genius of Hawking?

Not exact matches

Shares in AMS, which provides the facial recognition technology used in Apple's iPhones, jumped 7 percent after Apple surprised the market with solid iPhone X sales, confounding fears of a much weaker performance.

In a meta - analysis of 3 million people, which controlled for confounding factors such as demographics and objective isolation, loneliness increased odds of an early death by 26 %.

And companies with 100 employees or more, which must now comply with the ACA, are clearly confounded by the volume of paperwork required to adhere to the law, says Jeff Plakans, founder and president of payroll and benefits management company Commonwealth Payroll & HR, in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

The IARC acknowledges the difficulty of determining causality, but their report concludes that, «the consistent associations of colorectal cancer with consumption of processed meat across studies in different populations, which make chance, bias, and confounding unlikely as explanations.»

That the cuts are paired with some tax increases on individuals, like the elimination of the deduction for state and local income taxes and the Social Security number requirement, which kicks some 3 million kids off the child tax credit, makes the choice even more confounding.

That the cuts are pared with some tax increases on individuals, like the elimination of the deduction for state and local income taxes and the Social Security Number requirement which kicks some 3 million kids off the child tax credit, makes the choice even more confounding.

This reality (described in an oxymoron), which would otherwise confound us and lock us up in endless gnosticism, has become «that which we have seen with our eyes and touched with our hands» (1 John 1:1).

In addition to this being a case of special pleading via definitional fiat, the immutable good nature of god argument places the «objective / absolute» standard beyond the control of the god in that god has no choice but to obey this good nature (which also confounds the notion of omnipotence in that god is restricted to only a limited set of possible behaviors).

But Jesus confounds everyone, because h inspects a coin which literally is the property of Caesar's.

For, as there is no created thing, no matter how lowly, in which one can not recognize the me facit Deus... there is none that does not confound the mind once it stops to consider it.»

27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

It is also a description of relational power as operating ideally and without reference to the baffling and confounding realities which constitute our empirical existence.

With the Higgs Boson we confirmed the existence of the Higgs field which goes a long way to explaining the interactions between particles on a quantum level and is giving us a peek into something that has long confounded us, what Einstein called «sp o o ky action at a distance».

Most Relatable: Emerging Mummy with «In which God uses the «foolish» things to confound the «wise»» «There was this TV preacher that I sort of hated.

«For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence.»

That this is so is but another illustration of the extent to which the faith of the church has been confounded with the belief in the ideas, wishes and sentiments of men, and to which the word God has been made the symbol, not of the last reality with which man contends, but of his own aspirations.

Moreover, we must not confound the essentials of saintliness, which are those general passions of which I have spoken, with its accidents, which are the special determinations of these passions at any historical moment.

1CR 1:27 - 29 «But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, [yea], and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence.»

They, therefore, stupidly and even maliciously confound Fantasy with Dreaming, in which there is no Art; and with mental disorders, in which there is not even control: with delusion and hallucination [op.

If this is the case, everything which we have proposed in our first chapter is confounded, nor do we stand at the Socratic order of things, but we stand before a confusion which not even Socrates would have been able to master.

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty (1 Cor 1:27)

Steve Howe's 1991 comeback with the New York Yankees was astounding, which makes the latest skirmish in his battle with cocaine all the more confounding

But Tuss's men confounded the experts right off as Brown scored a touchdown in the first period, after which Dave Mishel drop - kicked the extra point.

Syracuse, which in big games has long been synonymous with ex-cuse, had won several testing contests (Florida, North Carolina) to get this far in the tournament, and Orange coach Jim Boeheim's changing defenses would continue to confound the master — «keep us guessing,» said Knight.

I like to think of myself as a fairly rational individual, which is why what has and is going on at Arsenal confounds me... little wonder people have gone so far as to suggest that Wenger is actually sabotaging the club... one only needs to look at our starting 11 to stoke the flames of conspiracy... just think of the perceived importance of this game, considering the loss to Stoke, the historically significance of the two teams involved, the controversy that swirled around our two meetings last season, the proximity to the closing of the window and the general disdain being directed towards the manager once again... how is it even possible that you wouldn't come to Anfield with all guns blazing... not a single shot on target, with the back - up keeper in no less... where were the new signings?

It has been a similar story for years but this season we seem to have perfected the art of confounding the general consensus and the bookies, by losing games that the football world see as a banker win for Arsenal and then winning games which no one gave Arsene Wenger and the lads a snowball's chance in hell of coming out on top in.

He completely confounded Olmedo with his high bounding spin service, which he put into the backhand or forehand corners with a deceptively similar motion.

Which is why theMaloofs are confounded by the opposition to their request for public funds fora new, $ 470 million building that would replace Arco, at 19 the third - oldestarena in the league.

It is important to note that these studies, which support breast milk's power to develop infants» cognitive ability are based mainly on observation and could contain confounding factors such as minor differences in mother - baby interaction.

In fact there are often methodological problems with such findings, which may reflect data - sets that include very few children with highly involved fathers, significant variation within the samples of children's exposure to other pathogenic circumstances; and the confounding of many types of «involved» father, from the abusive to the devoted (Lamb, 2002b).

As much as they claim to be victimised for public breastfeeding, FFing parents are frequently compared to child abusers, told that they are feeding their babies poison, that they don't deserve to have children and shown sensationalist «infographics» like the ones a few posts back which stated that formula fed babies are x times more likely to die within the first year of life without even accounting for the numerous confounding factors that would cause those numbers to be elevated in the first place.

Indeed, a long duration of breastfeeding (> 7 months) has been associated with a reduced risk of overweight and obesity, 2 while a short duration (≤ 4 months) may not be sufficient to obtain the beneficial effects of breastfeeding.3 Another confounding factor is early exposure to antibiotics, which is increasing even for minor infections.

A confounding variable was defined for analysis as one for which there was at least a 5 % difference in the regression coefficient estimates for type of feeding in regression models with and without the potential confounding variable.

SMMIS allowed us to control for nearly all of the known risk factors for PPH, many of which were also associated with intended place of birth and would therefore almost certainly have caused problems of confounding had they not been included as model covariates.