| 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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| It's a good idea to mulch each plant with an inch or so of aquarium gravel to keep soil from muddying the water. |
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| Your spurious example of a woman with friends in Switzerland is a typical example of muddying the waters. |
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| He eyed Mr. Jacks with disgust, like a mother reproaching her child for muddying the kitchen floor. |
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| Pike are acutely sensitive to vibration, as would be caused by dogs wading in shallows and muddying the water. |
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| The last thing we need is to have a bunch of pajama-clad amateurs muddying up the waters with their irresponsible guessing-games. |
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| Common carp are invasive because they damage shorelines by uprooting plants and muddying the water. |
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| Moreover, the government is still inclined to meddle, even taking stakes and muddying ownership. |
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| The member should stop deliberately muddying the waters to create division. |
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| I think my colleague is partially correct and partially muddying the waters. |
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| Commissioner, I know that you are not responsible, but the statistics are so late, they are causing confusion and muddying the waters. |
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| Such deliberate muddying of the waters on the issues is misleading and disreputable. |
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| Irrigate from 2 up to 5 times a day avoiding runoffs and muddying, until germination. |
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| It isn't the journalists muddying the waters, it's Labour's spin machine. |
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| It was felt by some in the campaign that muddying the waters with victim assistance clauses would only keep governments from committing to a ban of any sort. |
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| If attempts are made to try to score cheap political points by muddying the water or by using misinformed statistics, then that will be written into Canada's reputation. |
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| That is because the technique of averages in a differentiated social stratum such as agriculture is the best means of muddying the waters, of hiding acute class divisions and of concealing important social problems. |
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| Peter, you mentioned at one point that there is some muddying of the waters with third parties who make the communication lines and the allocation of cars difficult. |
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| Variables are added to the equation as long as they increase its explanatory power significantly, and as long as they do so cleanly, without muddying the statistical waters. |
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| What they are doing is muddying the waters. |
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| Mr. Speaker, moments ago, the minister responsible for Quebec told the leader of the Bloc Québécois to stop muddying the waters, and that this happened because there is no harmonized sales tax. |
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| This extreme rainstorm event and the resulting muddying of the Capilano reservoir resulted in the largest boil water advisory ever issued in Canada. |
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| Further muddying the waters, as the term telemarketing is popularly used, by police forces as well as the general public, it includes all manner of straight-forward cons that have nothing whatsoever to do with marketing. |
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| Although such a multi-faceted approach is effective in accommodating various definitions, the risk is that we perpetuate a muddying of conceptual waters and hinder the potential utility of the concept. |
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| Governing Boards who meddle in the day-to-day operations of the organization hamper the efficient management of the organization by muddying the lines of authority. |
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| Of course, an unsuccessful collaboration can have the opposite effect, muddying the waters creatively, in much the the same way that a bad music video can have a negative impact on a song. |
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