They encircle their village with a stockade and a confusing maze of approaches, most of them lethally booby-trapped. |
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In front of the world's golf media, the 13-time PGA Tour winner gave a long, rambling and often confusing account of his own life and times. |
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Supreme Court jurisprudence on journalist privileges has been both limited and confusing. |
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Such a state of confusing dilemma caused heavy blow to the age-old traditions and beliefs of these cultures. |
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The suspension is confusing as he was awarded a free kick for holding the ball from the now-penalised tackle. |
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Medical recipes, then and now, can often seem confusing because of their wealth of abbreviations and symbols. |
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There are several ways to teach your dog to walk to heel, but you should choose and stick to one to avoid confusing him. |
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At one stage we tried counting how many stars there were, but it got too confusing as we counted and recounted a dot or two. |
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The twins enjoyed confusing the Neophyte with their cryptic words and alembicated rhetoric. |
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We're not surprised that the government would make it difficult and confusing to cast a write-in vote. |
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They're nasty and confusing and I'm obsessed that if I fill them in wrong they'll put me in prison or something. |
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The drawings were confusing as to whether an air space was called for between the brick wythe and the block wythe. |
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The few seemingly simple slips of paper turn out to be a confusing labyrinth of coupons, even if colour coordinated. |
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He was lying on his back in a nest of bedding on the floor of the central corridor, and the past was confusing. |
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Be sure to mark confusing parts of the piece you are reading, or sections that warrant a reread. |
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Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned web professional, creating responsive designs can be confusing at first. |
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A confusing dynamics of humanization of animals and animalization of humans follows, framing such a decadent process with paroxysmal contours. |
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What makes it even more confusing is that this anti-heroine is played by Reese Witherspoon, who radiates sweetness and charm. |
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Words in poems or rhymes that sound the same but look different can be confusing for young children. |
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It is the purpose of this short essay to explain the confusing array of names of popes and antipopes during this time. |
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At the moment I am only on the first steps of Buddhism but I see it as the only light in a very confusing world. |
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But the language of liberty and freedom is apt to be confusing in these areas. |
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The lack of literal connection between visual and auditory sources is not confusing. |
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The record of arms control and disarmament in the post-Cold War era is confusing. |
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Thanks to modern technology, we have a vast array of lighting choices open to us which may make the project seem confusing. |
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The trial itself was a confusing round-robin of various witnesses being called over various issues at random. |
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Yet the confusing thing about her mania, says Todd, is her ability to remain articulate, clever and funny. |
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They are confusing me with the rules for all these new variations on rummy. |
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These rules are sometimes at odds with each other, resulting in financial statements that are confusing to users, preparers and attestors. |
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Based on the confusing wording of credits at the close of the film, we misattributed Ruell's work to Ferro. |
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The great tautologists, creation scientists, persist in wilfully confusing fact with theory. |
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When an ex-partner tried to buy some flippery for me, he became dizzy and nauseous when confronted by a sea of confusing tangas and teddies. |
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It is essentially a conceptual war, confusing for pundits and bad for television. |
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They look more like a confusing maze of roots and tendrils than a real tree. |
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These are great examples of modern slang dreamed up in the playground as a new means of confusing already baffled parents. |
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Ten minutes and a scorchingly confusing user interface later, we'd ordered our pizza. |
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In particular, the link between poverty and health was noted for confusing interpretations of the bald figures. |
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The marines were the first combat troops ashore in Vietnam, the first to die in that confusing war. |
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However, parking garages are getting more and more confusing with their pricing structure, hoping to bamboozle their clients. |
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It is a sprawling work, confusing in the current production, and not entirely clarified even by perusal of the text. |
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Working on Saturdays is always confusing because we start earlier and, in theory, end earlier. |
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Together with the associated buildings, it seamlessly unifies a formerly confusing campus. |
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He led us quickly out of the courtyard and through a confusing maze of corridors. |
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If a prophet advocated belief in God's oneness and used a different name of God, that would be confusing to the addressees. |
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Most confusing are the measures of kilos, hectares, kilometers, centimeters, and grams. |
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While some things have become clearer, a great deal else has become far more confusing. |
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I mean, it serves them right for including such a confusing item on their checklist, right? |
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The author's failure to define clearly these terms and movements makes for a confusing melange that never comes into focus. |
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A thousand painful, confusing emotions flickered through her brain all at once and she pulled away from him sharply. |
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The display boards about bus timings are confusing, some say, because schedules are often erratic. |
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The Democratic contest is a beauty contest, very, very confusing kind of primary. |
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The situation is a mess, and a confusing one, but there is no point in even talking about changing it. |
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It is messy and confusing and contradictory to look at the world situation. |
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I have sent four e-mails via the tortuously confusing BBC Website contacts page and made over a dozen phone calls to various departments. |
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There's no confusing failure with getting in touch with one's feminine nature in his work. |
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I was just really drawn to a story about this guy having a midlife crisis in Japan, where it's already so confusing. |
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If you are first time visitor, don't try to go there by train since the railway station is very confusing. |
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We must beware of the danger of confusing what is passionately and deeply wanted with what is a right. |
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The phonetics and pronunciation of Arabic names, almost alien to English when transliterated, were confusing and, at times, inaccurate. |
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But some of it was misguidance from confusing rules that came down for how detainees should be treated. |
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The proof of this result is correct, but this is one of two places in the book where there are undefined terms and confusing misprints. |
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We are cautioned against confusing bioluminescence with fluorescence and phosphorescence. |
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In recent years, there have been a spate of field guides for birdwatchers, often confusing the ordinary birder with the changes in nomenclature. |
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It manages to be about several things at once, without seeming confusing or trite. |
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Debates help them break through the blaze of hyperbolic attacks and confusing countercharges. |
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I think you're confusing her with Maxie, the blondie that I met down at the gym last Thursday. |
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But other recommendations muddy the waters, by confusing issues of individual freedom with the imposition of various forms of responsibility. |
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But I do think that this scheme is giving a different message, and it is muddying the waters and quite confusing for younger children. |
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Getting into that whole cluster would become very confusing quickly, since we've got overlapping issues, aside from Vietnam muddling up the mix. |
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However, I do not want to further muddle an already confusing issue with what, for most of us, are technicalities. |
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Confusing mugwort with wormwood is at the level of confusing potato with black nightshade because they share the genus Solanum. |
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No matter how confusing the English road names are, the Chinese name for the roads are unique. |
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I am sure it is confusing for me to introduce myself as Rachel when my name tag insists otherwise. |
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Critics say the bill offers confusing and unnecessary changes to a law that has been in place for years. |
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He nimbly steers his magic carpet through the nebulous and confusing post-modern clouds of the internet. |
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A lot of drivers are unsettled by the confusing combination of in-car lights and the dazzling night-time neons on the outside. |
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It seems that many a man and cow have fallen into an everlasting embrace with eternity by confusing such glamour with solidity. |
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Some parts were scary, and some were confusing at first but it all makes sense in the end. |
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There is certainly a need for change, but these plans at present are vague, confusing and uncertain. |
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We sat stoically as the news dribbled in, mixed with confusing and contradictory reports as the newsmen attempted to ascertain the facts. |
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In the adjacent mirror is a spatially confusing reflection of a woman wearing a rose headdress. |
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Only the capricious talent of David Lynch could manage to produce a noirish thriller that is so confusing and yet spellbinding at the same time. |
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Wine can be confusing, because even the wine from the same vineyard and winemaker changes from year to year. |
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When the violator is someone the child knows and trusts, the experiences are especially confusing. |
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Industry has long complained that the regulation is too confusing and burdensome. |
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My suggestion is that people are confusing structural medium term economic trends with the short-term business cycle. |
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Art, especially non-representational art, is confusing to plenty of people. |
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Words are confusing, but they're nothing compared to non-words, mainly because non-words lead to rash assumptions and misunderstandings. |
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In place of scientific procedure we get a confusing display of theatricality. |
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If you think that's confusing, try figuring out the difference between your first cousin twice removed, and your second cousin once removed. |
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I didn't like the electric handbrake, it was very confusing and the digital speedo is difficult to read. |
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Incidentally, Lyell makes a common error, confusing canebrakes or native bamboo stands with prairies. |
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It's not exactly rocket science, but newbies sometimes find the process confusing and require some handholding. |
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The next step is to add milk but milk is dangerous and the date stamps are often confusing. |
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Even though Ambrooke was a planet-wide city, it was broken up into provinces, so that navigation was less confusing to off-worlders. |
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Relationships with mothers is confusing enough, not to mention those with stepmothers. |
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He thus destroyed the contradictory and confusing dualism in Cartesianism and established mechanical empiricism. |
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His characterizations and distinctions are at times a bit hazy or confusing. |
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Broadly speaking, its function is to help us express and regulate our emotional lives, which are confusing and sometimes opaque to us. |
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Men are intensely straightforward and logical beings, and they find this confusing. |
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Should I have been a stranger to York I may have found the painted aerial mural of the city a little confusing. |
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The official answer to the kidnappers has been both categorical and at times confusing. |
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As temps, we know you'll find the building a little confusing, but we're hoping that your tour today will orient you completely. |
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I was falling into a popular error, that of confusing a film with its subject matter. |
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I think he was confusing the constitutional succession in office with who was in charge. |
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That's why he should simply understand what it means instead of confusing himself with overstudy. |
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The pagination system used is somewhat confusing as some page numbers were missing in my copy. |
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The story is divided into five parts that makes the writing choppy, uneven and confusing. |
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As a result, they can find emotional situations more confusing, leading to the petulant, huffy behaviour adolescents are notorious for. |
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I originally intended to attempt to give a plot synopsis of this film, but it's so confusing I might just not bother. |
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With little tide run after first flood, bites signal on the rod tip as several nods, often confusing you in to thinking it might be a huss. |
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The house is old and creaky, stairs to half-floors leading from narrow rooms and confusing passages as if designed by M.C. Escher. |
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I try never to forget that even for the powerful and their patsies, this is all a surreal and confusing game. |
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Certainly it did not stop me from further confusing the identity crisis by marrying a Bulgarian and choosing to make my home here. |
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Maybe an African watch should do away with confusing numerals and simply have just a sun and a moon on its face. |
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The various facets of his character occasionally complemented his ambition and ideals, but more often resulted in confusing contradiction. |
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The content was clear, neither overwhelming nor confusing, and the arguments were cogent. |
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Searle argues that this objection involves a fallacy of composition, confusing the properties of a system with those of its parts. |
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Do we want a hero with universal vision, or would we prefer a fallible creature, confusing and confused? |
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But as a technology columnist, I'm in the business of coming up with confusing and impenetrable reactions to events around me. |
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Chances are that you found the sentence confusing, even though all the words are common and familiar. |
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The common names of these berries are confusing and sometimes overlap with those of berries in other genera or families. |
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He was confusing enough when he was alive but now, when he's dead, he's impossible. |
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For readers unfamiliar with Brazilian geography this inattention will be confusing. |
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It came only after yet another procedural skirmish about the agenda and the debate was quite chaotic and confusing. |
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Confusing films may be in vogue, but confusing does NOT equal incomprehensible. |
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Though the phraseology is a bit confusing, the technique is relatively simple. |
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But when it's converted to HTML, that little indent is suddenly this huge gap, and that does look confusing. |
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After following Matt's very indirect and confusing directions, I reach his friends house. |
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This play is not for those easily bored by indiscernible, confusing stories that demand heavy philosophical thought. |
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Both players attempt to control the space by confusing the opponent with feints and deceptive moves. |
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You are confusing it with foot-and-mouth disease which is caused by an animal picornavirus. |
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There is a sense that in some intangible fashion the country is simply too big, too confusing, too complicated to be governed effectively. |
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Avoid those who try to conceal what they are doing, tell you it's too complicated or use confusing and unnecessary jargon. |
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The humans crashed into the aliens, leading to a huge mess even more confusing then a football pileup. |
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It now boasts of a fountain park, a rare spot of colour on a rather confusing confluence of roads. |
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For my father and his generation back in the confusing era of the Depression, the battle lines were even more simply drawn. |
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And maybe familiar cues are simply the means by which people navigate through a confusing world. |
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These confusing feelings of being apart from the real world and close to it at the same time are part of what community college is about. |
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It is a confusing situation, but it seems that for now, at least, the situation on the ground remains unchanged. |
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They can be extremely effective at distracting and confusing someone on the other side of an argument. |
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The lovely album, for instance, sees new accents improving a song, rather than confusing it. |
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Questing and plashing, whiskers twitching, he searches vole-like for paths through the confusing cyberswamp. |
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There's very little sense of time and continuity throughout the film, making for one that's a little confusing chronologically. |
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Many complain that the modern car is home to a confusing and unnecessary multitude of buttons, switches and controls. |
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For beginners to this study, it sometimes gets confusing with all the lines converging and diverging to and from each other. |
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The convolutions in the plotlines veer back and forth between intriguing and confusing. |
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At Castle Place the Coney Island sign is pointing in the wrong direction which must be very confusing for visitors. |
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But my flimsy excuses and confusing metaphors weren't enough to keep myself convinced. |
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It is confusing for servers who have some customers drink and some return corked wines. |
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With little tide run after first flood, bites signal on the rod tip as several nods, often confusing you into thinking it might be a huss. |
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The floor was an amazing array of confusing hallways, corridors, and rooms. |
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Despite good supporting work from Keener, the film flounders with muddled pacing and a confusing point of view. |
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Last week, the federal court of appeals for the Sixth Circuit added one more piece to an already confusing puzzle. |
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The rules of courtship don't apply to you, and so your behavior is confusing and unpredictable. |
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After a few minutes of waiting patiently for her to awake I crash in the chair I'm sitting in from the long, tiring, confusing day. |
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There have been many questions about cue bids, and many advancing players find them confusing since they are so context-sensitive. |
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People had been gabbling at her in some strange language that sounded like a cross between Russian and Gaelic, but slightly more confusing. |
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The early chapters are a little confusing perhaps, and the ending is a tad predictable. |
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The clouds do start early and there is a strong east wind so it is confusing thinking about how to handle the task. |
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On windy days, the smoke was wafted so that signals became garbled and confusing. |
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A frown darkened the girls' eyes and they brought the page of confusing pictures up closer to their faces. |
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And then the dawn's early light suddenly appears to Ginger, clearing all those confusing dark clouds away. |
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First is the editorial decision to replicate the original printings, complete with long walls of paragraphs and confusing punctuation. |
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Clarke pointed out that the argument was guilty of confusing de dicto and de re necessity. |
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In a few cases these feelings continue and so the physical effects of puberty can be very distressing and confusing. |
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It is an overwhelming, confusing, meandering descent into seasonal decline. |
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We often shorten long letters, clarify confusing statements or correct grammatical errors. |
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You can create embeddable content, but using a confusing, separate tool that only supports album content. |
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Among the many questions following the confusing president election is whether some African-American voters were disenfranchised. |
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Some are flush with the gutter or even leaping off the top of the page and as such are visually confusing. |
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I feel like I've been abducted by aliens, so confusing and disorientating has my life become. |
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If they fail to enthrall and enrapture the audience, The King of Marvin Gardens ends up a very slow, very confusing film. |
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This was a fine privilege for its editors and a confusing disservice to your readership. |
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Despite the reforms, corporate profits can be as distorted and confusing as ever. |
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The admission that past Americans harbored ambivalent and confusing attitudes about nature seems too untidy for the doctrinaire. |
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Perhaps in her doddering senility, she was subconsciously confusing it with all the dry sherry she was knocking back. |
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The only confusing aspect of this version of the play was trying to establish early on what part the doo-woppers played in the production. |
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He gave a confusing explanation for what appears to be the rating system for dope, from 1-10, 10 being pure. |
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Appendices enable the student to demonstrate due diligence without distracting or confusing the reader with extraneous material. |
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The remaining one-quarter is derived from various, and confusing, names like Chinese broccoli, which gives it its crunch and special sweetness. |
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Since the film rarely stops to take stock of its overcomplicated story, things can get a little confusing at times. |
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The film's abounding action sequences are banging, but they're not enough to overlook its plot holes and confusing story. |
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The intoxicating obscurity of ancient Japanese culture is shown to be irrational and confusing. |
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Unfortunately, some rocks weather into a sort of brown almost burnt crust on the outside, so that can be confusing. |
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Business Link says the ICT marketplace is full of confusing acronyms, terms and ever-changing technologies. |
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If the defense is active and moves from one side of the offense to the other quickly, it can be confusing to the offensive players teammates. |
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To make sure you're not confusing the thyroid gland with your Adam's apple, repeat the test. |
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I've been speaking only when absolutely necessary and I know I'm weirding some people out and confusing others. |
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But just might add that there has been a welter of confusing and contradictory information coming out of various parts of the leadership. |
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When a sentence-initial adjunct needs to connect to a specific noun phrase deep in the following material, it can be confusing. |
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The maze of twisting country lanes which surrounded the farm and connected it to the numerous villages and small towns nearby was confusing and disorientating. |
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This had worked well, since there was an obvious difference between a suborbital and orbital launch, and little chance of confusing a launch vehicle with an aircraft. |
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Photography anacronyms like SOOTC and DOF can be confusing to new members. |
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The surnames sound similar and, for the uninitiated, quite confusing too. |
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Insurance policies typically have limitations, exclusions, inclusions and endorsements that are confusing and in some cases mutually contradictory. |
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Perhaps the guest columnist for the newspaper is confusing his Saids with his Chomksys, or he sees comparative literature as a branch of linguistics. |
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It is an unfortunate and potentially confusing accident of taxonomy that agoutis do not belong to the family Agoutidae, which instead contains their relatives, the pacas. |
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At the back of the drainboard, smack in the middle of the dishcloth, a small brown roach waved his antennae sluggishly-sick, no doubt, confusing his nights and days. |
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Issues of cultural appropriation and colonialism come to the surface against a backdrop of often confusing or nonsensical vignettes from various Tintin stories. |
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The official language deployed in natural and manmade disasters can often be formulaic and confusing. |
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My younger brother, Chris, was a little too determined to win at all costs and received the dreaded black flag for confusing go-karting and the dodgems. |
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All this requires much arduous, painstaking, and sometimes confusing work. |
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But if you're a person of principle the decision about which party to support becomes confusing as times change and parties chop and change their policies. |
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Later on in the day, because the schedule rotated in order to make our lives even more confusing, I journeyed to English class for my second time. |
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He looked out of place and his use of urban street lingo was confusing. |
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Hersh is certainly not writing history, which leads me to conclude that even the greatest polemic journalism can become confusing when expanded into book form. |
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It is the moral maze which is the most inextricable and confusing. |
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The web is a terrible, confusing, violent, ruleless place that has run wild and cannot be harnessed and will never be placed under the benevolent, watchful eye of government! |
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In fact, it is just too confusing and unnecessarily complicated. |
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I walked away, my feelings astir and confusing my already troubled mind. |
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Nate Silver meets the Grim Reaper, without all the confusing actuarial tables. |
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A later unscrupulous Pope decided to conflate the sundry Biblical Marys into the single persona of Mary Magdalene to avoid confusing the lumpen faithful of the times. |
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Other readers might find the discussion a bit confusing about how much continuity and discontinuity exists between this world and the new creation. |
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The only excuse might be confusing it with Hama, the site of the infamous 1982 massacre. |
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There isn't an exhaustive amount of authoritative or reliable information about his life, and there is an exhaustive amount of confusing folklore. |
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But because my commitment is to mainstreaming astrology, I think it would be very confusing to the public if I started discussing other techniques. |
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They were confusing call signs and giving vectors to the wrong aircraft. |
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The 41-year-old film maker had his own confusing memories of his father's infrequent visits, mostly nocturnal, to his mother's clapboard flat in Philadelphia. |
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The solution is thus to become a great simulator and dissimulator, learning the skill of cunningly confusing men and making them believe in your pretence. |
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Various histopathologic patterns of bronchiolar injury have been described and have led to confusing nomenclature with redundancies and overlapping terms. |
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The special teams play is a tad confusing the first few tries, but with some practice using the Mini-Camp drills help explain things and get you on the right path. |
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In the end The Lone Ranger is a confusing nearly three hours, overwhelmed by relentless violence and ill-timed jokes. |
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I would have thought it could sensibly be done in half an hour, but the courts who decide these confusing name cases seem to be able to spin them out for months. |
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Be prepared to spend some time deciphering the menu, which consists of at least forty confusing photos of fruits and nuts in various stages of preparation. |
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Good for thinking things through and getting clarity on confusing issues. |
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The law of in testate succession, that under certain circumstances can be quite confusing, will then determine who inherits how much of the estate. |
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Pro-democracy politicians have put the best face they can on a confusing scramble to realign their election strategy in advance of the September Legco election. |
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The doomsayers are confusing a cyclical downturn with a permanent trend. |
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For some reason the Spaniards saw a likeness between the banana tree and the totally different plane tree, which is how the plantain got its confusing name. |
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At times the device is confusing, not least because the various voices are not sufficiently distinguished on the page, making it hard to see who says what. |
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Is the overwhelming variety of horse boots confusing to you? |
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But the story is presented in a disjointed series of confusing flashbacks that work too hard to logically explain an ultimately illogical premise. |
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I'm personally into and learning Theravada, but this made the basic concepts of Buddhism clear for me when it was seriously confusing a while back and I thought it was great. |
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The layout is confusing and they should have just used a bar chart, but my reading of this graph is that hardly anyone responded in the 0-4 range. |
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Considering that recent polls show support for those issues at 53 and 50 percent respectively, it was a confusing bit of punditry. |
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Perhaps the single most confusing aspect of all this is to properly set up the video and audio codecs so that you use the ones that actually exist on your system. |
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The various steps that are required to progress a matter through the criminal justice system can, at best, for many people be a very confusing process. |
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The film is a three-ring circus, disjointed and somewhat confusing. |
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The tone is that of rancorous comedy, and there is skill in the writing, but the play, unlike the movie, is weighed down with a confusing prologue and a clumsy epilogue. |
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I understand that loose ends had to be left for sequels, but the film seemed to pretend that said ends were tied up, making for a confusing conclusion to the movie. |
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Up on the sidewalks, New York was a confusing bedlam of sights and sounds. |
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Kramer believes some critics are confusing magic with the occult. |
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However, the story line later digresses and becomes confusing and cryptic. |
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Qualitative sampling can be confusing, especially if one's knowledge regarding sampling methods originates from a framework of statistical inference. |
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Even now, stammering has remained a confusing speech impediment for the sufferer as well as for those who have attempted to cure it through medicines. |
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At Tate Modern, the result was a momentously confusing opening hang, where nothing had a place in the greater scheme of things because there was no greater scheme of things. |
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He throws everything into the mix with the lone goal of confusing us. |
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At first glance, this book seems cryptic, threatening and confusing. |
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Child placers who acted out of ignorance were all too prone to confusing love with money, and those motivated by money obviously overlooked love entirely. |
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That is why dyslexics tend to reverse the order of letter features, thus confusing d with b and p with q, and to transpose the order of letters within words. |
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The bridge can be a little confusing when conditions deteriorate, as it is draped in trawl net, but a diver can see and swim inside many parts of it. |
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The granting of temporary conjugal rights might be a means of confusing a new dominant male as to the actual paternity of young cubs, thereby protecting them. |
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Also very confusing were the cuckoo-shrikes and kingfishers. |
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The bioelectric theory tops off this confusing mix of theories. |
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This is a very confusing situation for a precocious trilingual five year old, but not such an unusual condition when seen in a pan-Canadian context. |
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One mark is smeared on top of another, and so forth, until foreground, middle ground and background intermesh in a perpetual but confusing push-pull. |
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If that plot description sounds a little confusing, have no fear. |
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The cacophony resonating along the pavements is a mixture of a dozen different languages, revving motor engines and a confusing blend of music from all over Africa. |
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A true-blue bud makes your life easier, not more confusing and painful. |
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While the actress may look stunning in the backless gown, her hair-do seems to be confusing the magazine's readers. |
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He insisted to Brezhnev that Carter was committed to nuclear disarmament despite some confusing speeches on the issue. |
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As a result, insider trading has been loosely defined through a mishmash of confusing verdicts and precedents. |
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My husband shrugged it off as just another one of my confusing emotional episodes, soon to pass with a lot of chocolate and a strong pot of coffee. |
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Easier is to put all your languages on one blog, but then you risk confusing and possibly annoying monolingual readers, or of reducing one language to minority status. |
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Tom LeClair on a confusing mix of neuroscience, George W. Bush, and unreliability. |
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So he jazzed up the movie with rapid fire, machinegun edits and one confusing montage after another that completely throw off any sense of continuity. |
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It seems to default to either redrawing the menu or logging out if you select an invalid menu option, which again can be confusing if you're not in a harmless text editor. |
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Here we see, not a confusing welter of compromises and half-measures, but a clear and logical relationship in which each pole is balanced and complemented by the other. |
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The weakest part of the book is the first section, which attempts to explain diabetes scientifically and ends up as a welter of confusing details. |
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The next two chapters on medieval India and the Middle Ages are more muddled, perhaps due the the confusing morass of the actual history of the period. |
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The opera's plot is the typically confusing farrago of unrequited love, disguises, nobility pitted against treachery, and everything set right at the very last minute. |
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We might as well begin with the most confusing and, frankly, suspect person in all of Serial. |
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On top of inciting violence that led to the death of a 16-year-old boy, it was confusing to residents. |
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Tonal morphophonemics is much more confusing to the beginning analyst than consonantal morphophonemics, even when the total number of rules is no greater. |
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The basis for the modern-day sovereign belief system is a conspiracy theory that is as outrageous as it is confusing. |
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Instead of having to go through medical examinations and being seen by a confusing variety of different people, they get their own one-to-one nurse. |
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This theory holds even more truth today because with the amount of mixed and confusing messages regarding health and fitness, most consumers are confused. |
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The history portion isn't always in order, which can be a bit confusing. |
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Rather than cut into the hills, roads curved around them, sometimes twisting so sinuously, in so confusing a manner, only a native could find the way out. |
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Melodrama can be a confusing and annoying moviegoing experience. |
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This track is so confusing and multi-layered, it would take a team of Mensa members with Ph.D.s in Ebonics to decode. |
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You get a taste of the frustration, the liquor laced woodshedding, the comfort Wilco had with it's finished product and the confusing world of audio technology. |
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The Paris Metro knocks spots off London's Tube, but the standard map of the various lines and destinations can be a touch confusing for the uninitiated. |
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Amid the usual flurry of confusing, sometimes conflicting economic facts and figures what matters to most of us is the income and outgo and whether we have jobs to go to. |
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After this abrupt and confusing start, waters are only muddied further by the constant intervention of some rather pointless and badly executed film footage. |
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Macerata was built on a hill with fortress-like walls and internal streets as confusing as a labyrinth, and today it still has many of those outer walls intact. |
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There are concerns the timetable, which is widely distributed through rail outlets, travel centres and information offices, could be confusing to visitors from abroad. |
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One of the most painful and confusing paradoxes of life today concerns our sensation of scarcity amid plenty. |
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The end result is a clean hierarchical grouping and usage of business processes, as services, without the redundant and confusing technology of prior approaches. |
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As for the new Mac Pro, you'd be forgiven for confusing with a dyson garbage compactor. |
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That is, the vernacular comes to us as reported speech, and it is here that we encounter the confusing dimensions of discourse within a Hurston text. |
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Leonardo Da Vinci wrote accounts about the amphisbaena as a living creature, giving details on how the serpent caught rodents as prey by confusing it with its two heads. |
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The bus system is highly complex and can be rather confusing to an outsider. |
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College rankings are ubiquitous, confusing, and often indiscriminate. |
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Yes, it's confusing and is neither fish nor fowl in that it actually doesn't go far enough to really change the system. |
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One confusing aspect of a steroid investigation is the myriad of steroid products containing different testosterone derivatives. |
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This complicated support network can add significant costs and make problem resolution a confusing, blameful and time-consuming task. |
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Bullionist writers, especially David Ricardo, criticized it for confusing relative with absolute prices. |
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