Then you distort that in some way, and so confound the reader's expectation. |
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He will also confound critics by claiming the economy is still on target to hit the growth forecasts he set out earlier this year. |
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He fails completely, of course, but with his attempts to confound and wrong-foot audiences more used to linear stories, it is a noble failure. |
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But in 1914, the notions of shoulders braid and aiguillettes confound themselves. |
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But surging goatgrass and declining rainfall combined to confound the plan and spurred him to look for a new spring crop. |
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If you're a fan of either of these artists then this release isn't going to surprise or confound you. |
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In addition, blood pressure measurement is only intermittent, and white coat hypertension might confound results. |
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But this attempt to confound nationality with race is no better than the Russian attempt to confound it with unity of religion. |
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Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. |
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Nowadays Butler appears to confound normative ideals with something more absolute. |
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It was the fatal mistake of the medieval church to confuse and confound the two kingdoms. |
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Now he knows how junk science and illogic can confound reason and common sense. |
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So the theory goes, but backroom dealmakers always like to confound the theorists. |
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Unfortunately, many clinical tests confound the function of the olfactory nerve with that of the trigeminal nerve. |
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The consistency with which Celtic confound expectation grows more remarkable by the minute. |
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The prime minister has the opportunity over these next 10 days to confound the cynics. |
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Danish brides and grooms used to confound the evil spirits by cross-dressing. |
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Like the mythical emperor's new clothes, the obscurity of highbrow discourse was merely a mystique that charlatans used to confound the gullible. |
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And perhaps they feel that by releasing some sort of statement helps raise again the fear level and confuse and confound their enemies. |
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Meanwhile, Spain continues to confound business experts by remaining the biggest market for blended whisky. |
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The diverse confound identity rigidness, bowl over and reject the selective certainties in the rows of fragile ideologies. |
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The ego and God will confound each other during an instant, during a moment. |
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Such traditional values may yet confound Speedie, Regis and co on Saturday. |
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As if that weren't enough, the disc itself will confuse and confound you. |
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Otherwise, this lack of clarity can confuse and confound viewers. |
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Parties and plans often confound the best intentions to live healthfully. |
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But even if the characters confound your gaydar, the issues are universal. |
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Sometimes, in our pastoral work, we confound between our apostolic zeal and our hurt pride. |
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Yet, as a whole, the events that transpired between 1900 and 2000 B.C.E. still manage to confound the contemporary imagination. |
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Whatever idea you might have of how Cuban music sounds, this album will confound it. |
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However, Mr Paisley's long innings, the end of which was confirmed yesterday, appears at first sight to confound it. |
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For affirmed amateur, careful not to confound it with the Magnum 50 limited series. |
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To complicate and confound matters further, North Korea has done more than simply throw grenades. |
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It has since been saved, but continues to confound curators in search of a right-angle. |
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A single word is enough to avoid having the vice squad confound the distributor and the buyer. |
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Its immense human and natural resources, put to purposive use, will someday confound those who have become used to looking down upon Moscow. |
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But he manages to confound those who dismiss him as a free-market philistine. |
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Take the form of anyone in your path, using an arsenal of identities to confound, exploit or annihilate your enemies. |
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As we proceed with our deliberations, we must be very careful not to confound the issues of commercial trade with development aid. |
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For a long time this data was very difficult to obtain, and to confound the problem there was also a lack of common evaluation standards. |
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Finally, incentives must be properly aligned to prevent conflicts of interest that can confound and distort the pricing of risk. |
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These values are not presented in the Tables this year so as not to confound the nuclear system data. |
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Note: Do not confound this check box with check box Enabled in List of Filtering. |
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This is particularly true in a field study setting where uncontrolled variables may to some extent confound measurement protocols. |
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From mice to men is a big step, but so far there is no evidence to support or confound these fears. |
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The increase in recognition of autism spectrum disorders in Western countries continues to confound and confuse. |
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He may be an exception, but his example proves that grace can confound the expectations and machinations of curial politics. |
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To unscrew the casing is to throw open such a Pandora's Box of nuts and springs, axles, ratchets and governors as to confound all attempts to recapture them. |
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Her trainer is Monmore handler Chris Allsopp, and his meteorical rise since taking out his licence in 2004 would confound even Pythagoras. |
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The latest evolution of tobacco company strategies involves new nicotine products that make smoking attractive and confound the boundary between toxic and less toxic uses. |
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The atrocities confound the imagination and cause the deepest concern on the part of all those who try to understand how such violence could ever have been committed. |
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Many of his densely intricate and rhythmically pathbreaking pieces from the 1960s through the '80s, the decades of his greatest influence, could confound musicians as well as audiences. |
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Any differences in the labour market status and outcomes of individuals aged 55 to 64 between immigrants and the domestic-born could confound the trends this study is interested in highlighting. |
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Since 1990 information technology and new knowledge in genetics have combined with the joint efforts of researchers throughout the world to confound forecasts concerning the time it would take to map the genome. |
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Foreign exchange market adjustments can be severe, and it would not be surprising, given the current craze for the loonie, for it to confound the most optimistic projections once again. |
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Neither Nordstrom nor the Whites bought into Moore's idea that literature for children had to be carefully regulated lest it confound or bewilder developing minds. |
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Johnson alertly observes that time and place are subservient to the mind: since the audience does not confound stage action with reality, it has no trouble with a shift in scene from Rome to Alexandria. |
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Sinuous lines, which entwine, confound, camouflage themselves in a mental metamorphosis, which evolves in the passing of time and concretizes itself on the canvas in a natural style, without any coercion. |
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All professions unwittingly make a mystery of their skills and all too often invent new gobbledegooks to confound the public. |
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We'll teach these magnates that they cannot ride roughshod over the rights of the commoners, confound them! |
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The works confound stereotypes of Japanese etiquette, even as they update the tradition of the anatomically explicit shunga print. |
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Now along comes Jacques Pépin to confound it all. |
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Just as alchemists and metallurgists confound and astound with science, Montana's Volumen confound and astound with sonics. |
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Curved one-way mirrors and stainless steel perforated sheeting allows for light reflections and refractions, which according to Graham's wish, serve to confound the visitors. |
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George with the prophet Elijah, at Lydda confound his legend with one about Christ himself. |
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You confound cupidity, avarice and the cares of this world. |
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The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound. |
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Strategies include lobbying against tobacco control measures, suing countries who take action and designing new products that confound regulations. |
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Like so many people, we find plenty of evidence that little really changes, and the world continues to confound our hopes for what we know is possible. |
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They contended that if the radar locked up when tracking debris from a collision, adversaries could confound it by surrounding their warheads with tiny scraps of metal, or chaff. |
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You confound all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh. |
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For what other reason, blast and confound it, is a person healthy? |
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Transfer pricing for the purpose of tax avoidance has already started to confound Kimberley Process statistics, and will likely become an issue of concern to the world certification body before long. |
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Even in a painstakingly designed application like Microsoft Word, automatic features for capitalizing text and applying formatting often confound users of all levels. |
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Sudden and extensive disappearings and fresh appearings would startle and confound us, and if continued, would shatter our sense of personality out of us. |
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We at time of year Do wound the bark, the skin of our fruit trees, Lest, being overproud in sap and blood, With too much riches it confound itself. |
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