Sentences with phrase «who confounded»

Finger - Tip catch in end zone by tumbling Lee Folkins occurred at end of 23 - yard pass from Bob Schloredt, Washington's one - eyed wizard of a quarterback, who confounded beefy Wisconsin defense all day with slick play selection.

Christ embraced the people who confounded society, and loved the people who everyone else wanted to judge.

The man is not yet possessed of the true Islamic faith who confounds those two powers, believing that the prophets themselves created their miracles.

It's a picture of Jimmy Stewart as Jefferson Smith, the corn - pone patriot who confounds the Washington politicos in the movie classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

Haynes delivers a song - cycle of a movie: vivid, exaggerated, contradictory impressions of a man who confounds a culture looking to peg him with a definition.

There are numerous understudies who confound between the Bachelor's, Master's and Doctorate level expositions and require thesis and dissertation help with their paper.

Not exact matches

Those are questions that perplex and confound many who are deciding whether to get the degree and, if so, where to get it from.

Wenger, on the other hand, is purely an optimist who doesn't plan for anything going wrong and is confounded when things go against him.

The package also contains bills directing agencies to craft the least costly rules possible, to publish cost estimates for rules in development, and to publish «plain language» summaries of proposed rules online, a salvo at the impenetrable verbal thickets that confound small - business owners, who typically handle compliance themselves.

It's particularly confounding for Bhakta since these investors who are now trying to oust him were once good friends.

Put another way, this sport confounds sheiks and scions of American dynasties who drop millions of dollars in futile efforts to breed a Kentucky Derby...

This drop confounded analysts, who forecasted a stronger dollar based on expectations for higher US interest rates.

«It doesn't matter who you are or how good you are, markets confound you.»

This drop confounded analysts, who forecasted a stronger dollar based on expectations...

As one of his followers explained, he came to hear Millers lecture with a «determination to not believe, and to expose him and his folly to the people who should be present,» but he left «convicted, confounded and converted.»

The prophets of Israel, writes Buber, «always aimed to shatter all security and to proclaim in the opened abyss of the final insecurity the unwished - for God who demands that His human creatures become real... and confounds all who imagine that they can take refuge in the certainty that the temple of God is in their midst.»

In my scientific suppositions I have proposed that their were once immeasurably unknown amounts of Big Bangs spread out uniformly upon the great vastness of spatial relativisms that is Nothingness itself... Such a theory regarding unknowable amounts of Big Bangs spread out uniformly upon the great vastness of continual Nothingness just may well be the missing mathematical linkage for explaining the hindering smallness of celestial issues that has confounded many astrophysicists who endeavor to seek a mathematical formulary in order to rationalize a theoretical understanding of the celestial cosmos...

It links those who love in bonds that unite but do not confound, causing them to discover in their mutual contact an exaltation capable, incomparably more than any arrogance of solitude, of arousing in the heart of their being all that they possess of uniqueness and creative power.

By contrast, although Europe has such outstanding figures as Leszek Kolakowski, Hans Maier and Josef Ratzinger, its public culture is dominated by sneering secularists, who set the tone for the rest of the population and can make light work of the average bishop rolled out to confound them, especially in the case of Anglican bishops who share so much liberal common ground.

Those who put their trust in bricks and mortar are confounded.

He confounded the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus was the Messiah (Acts 9:22).

God, at the beginning of the Bible, walking in a garden in the cool of the day, making a woman from a man's rib, confounding men's speech lest they build a tower too high, trying to slay a man at a wayside inn because his child was not circumcised, or dwelling on Mt. Sinai, where he says to Moses, «You shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen,» is a very different deity from the one you find at the Bible's end, «God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.»

People of faith who care about God's creation face a confounding factor: How we do we tend our homes without hurting the planet?

Christians who had a lot more invested in this than I confounded me with their capacity to forgive and their commitment to radical, unexplainable grace.

But — here our eyes widen — civilization lumbers us with substandard types who reproduce boundlessly and must finally swallow us up in their genetic mediocrity, utterly confounding and defeating the harsh kindness of evolution.

They are confounded by the claim that God is specifically located in a particular person» with a birthday and a birthplace, a nationality, a genealogy, and a biography, as summarized in the Apostles» Creed, of one «who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried... [and] on the third day rose from the dead.»

«After adjusting for confounding factors, they found that men who consumed a daily bowl of whole grain (but not refined) cereal had a 29 percent lower risk of heart failure.»

Armed with a self - taught, attacking style that confounded the boyhood coaches who tried to change him, Bode (pronounced BOH - dee) hopped mountains and trained with a rival team at age 13.

Dear Mr. Wenger, Breaking news and off the subject: Yet another professional footballer has confounded us all by this statement: I would choose Arsenal over Spurs and Liverpool, who it is reported are all chasing his services!!!

Martinez is the king of confounding those who prematurely deem his season to be a failure.

That «Arsène Who» confounded them and changed the face of football forever got them so green with envy and hatred for your outstanding achievements.

A long ball forward confounded John Terry, who mistimed his header, but Saha superbly chested it down before lashing a half - volley beyond Petr Cech.

A baby who is born early may have more trouble nursing either because of a lack of mature sucking ability or other confounding medical issues.

The cohort has a high representation of women from disadvantaged and lower socioeconomic groups, who are of particular interest in the targeting of breastfeeding interventions.29, 30 We can not exclude residual confounding by factors that we were not able to account for within this observational study.

Research indicates that breastfeeding also affects motor development: children who are breastfed show an earlier ability to crawl and perform the «pincer grip,» after adjusting for potential confounding variables.

One possible explanation of these findings is that our results are confounded by differences between mothers who use or avoid pacifiers.

Those five being Iain Duncan Smith, Chris Grayling, Priti Patel (the Leave campaign being a real chance for her to confound those who think she lacks intellectual range), Theresa Villiers and John Whittingdale.

You confounded the people who insisted on jabbering at us about «what Iowa meant» for the last few days, and you also showed up in record numbers and demonstrated that participatory democracy is not quite dead in this country.

The moment was in contrast to last week's blow up when Skelos stormed out of the meeting claiming that «another branch of government» was pushing New York City issues in the budget talks (There is no doubt he was referring to Silver, who has confounded Republicans during budget negotiations for 20 years now).

You confounded the people who insisted on jabbering at us about «what Iowa meant» for the last few days, and you also showed up in record numbers and demonstrated...

«I am proud of each and every one of the hundreds of activists and volunteers who have brought the fight to Labour's front door in a way that will have confounded our critics.

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

He reclaimed the capital for the Conservative Party, confounding all those who thought that Ken Livingstone was unbeatable, and I thought it was such a good story that I wrote a book about it!

The sudden switch confounded most of the sleep - deprived participants, but those who had a particular variation of the DRD2 gene handled the switch as well as they did when well - rested.

«We did not find any difference between children who received general anesthesia and spinal anesthesia, suggesting that the previous human studies may have been affected by confounding factors.»

But for those who lose their sight later in life, recent studies in the US are confounding the idea that vision is just too complex to succumb to the tinkering of engineers.

This provoked a strong rebuttal by wildlife ecologist Graeme Caughley, who suggested that because the factors that may have resulted in this irruption were «hopelessly confounded,» a case study of the Kaibab provided an ineffective example of top - down control.

Another possibility is that there are confounding factors that we could not control for, such as poor access to fresh groceries among people who have pre-existing health conditions, hectic lifestyles or who live in deprived areas.»

Compared with the general population, and after controlling for confounding factors (such as disease duration, other co-existing diseases and socio - economic factors), patients with RA actively on TNF inhibitor treatment were 50 percent more likely to have ACS, while those who had never taken these medications were over twice as likely to have ACS.

After adjusting for confounding factors such as age, education and occupational status, the researchers found that not only was there a 30 % increased risk of any arrhythmia with the highest number of races completed and the fastest finishing time, but also the risk increased by 10 % between each category for the number of races completed, i.e. there was a 10 % increased risk from the least exposed group of participants (those who completed only one race) to the next group (two races), another 10 % increase in risk to the next group (three - four races) and another 10 % to the most exposed group (five or more races).