It's become a legal morass, muddied by claims of incompetence and backroom deals. |
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A half-mile slithery and steep muddied our boots for the first time, and brought us back to Egton Bridge where we popped down to the river. |
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The issue has been muddied by the fact that there were two troubling areas of reporting. |
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It had been so ever since Caroline had arrived home, muddied and in disarray. |
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The sound quality, you'll find, is definitely far improved over the muffled and muddied tracks that accompany syndicated repeats. |
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The woman raised a lorgnette and appraised the muddied rugby shirt with pursed lips. |
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Her features softened, and she slowly straightened up, her shirt tattered, her jeans muddied. |
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But it also brought so many people at once into the movement that our goals got muddied. |
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However, the decay on real xylophones and marimbas is so long that the counterpoint gets muddied. |
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The result is that the question of who is the more environmental got very muddied. |
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The car was found on the outskirts of Birmingham on December 7, bloodstained, muddied, and with grass and leaves on the bonnet and underneath. |
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Oh, we've been very diplomatic but in the face of a deliberate and concerted political campaign the issues get muddied. |
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Animal welfare experts and a trained sniper were muddied and exhausted before they eventually tranquilized the cattle. |
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The gusting wind muddied the open water of the exposed lake, and no activity was visible. |
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His wife is next him, her blue skirt hem muddied, her arms full of their youngest child. |
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He was looking forlornly over the spilt broth, and egg and bacon sandwich that were lying, muddied up and trod on, on the ground. |
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Some of Ellis's analyses, though thorough, seem a little muddied and somewhat belabored. |
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Her dress was torn, her legs were scratched and bruised, muddied from crawling on the filthy alley floor. |
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The springs' colors changed, too, as minute particles of broken rock muddied the waters. |
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His clothes were all muddied and torn and there were bruises and scratches all over his face and hands. |
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The final observation I would make is that we have severely muddied the waters in international law. |
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The Senate Intelligence Committee oversees the court's decisions. The internet has muddied this picture considerably, however. |
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It made this public on the same day as the STJ's judgment muddied the message. |
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This adds to that muddied water, let us say, in car allocation so that it is not in the best interests of our farmers in western Canada. |
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This can be used to keep the original signal from being muddied up by delay repeats. |
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This morning we've obviously stirred the waters and muddied them a little bit, I believe. |
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So we see that the connection between church and state is a very complex, muddied one and not easily torn apart. |
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The argument was then somewhat muddied by the statement that all officials carrying out their duties are presumed to be acting legally. |
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A Korean proverb says The water downstream will not be clear if the water upstream is muddied. |
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As for Taylor himself, his private life, like his identity, was incredibly muddied. |
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To reduce returning sound being muddied, the rear wall to the baptistry was opened with angled cuts and a tapestry hung, resulting in unusual visual links to the space. |
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Whereas TARP 1.0 would have been a boon to transparency, TARP 2.0 muddied the waters badly once again. |
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You see, this isn't much different than when your child comes home, muddied, bloodied, and aching because some bully decided to beat your little angel. |
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Incomplete or competing standards further muddied the picture. |
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Depending on your perspective, he either clarified or muddied the matter. |
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When he talks, his words trickle out and things become less muddied. |
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With five people all talking simultaneously, it can get a bit muddied, but there's a sense of fun about the whole thing that makes it absolutely worth a listen. |
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Because you begin thinking this person has, sort of, muddied the waters. |
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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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On a practical level, quidditch players are often muddied or bloodied, and sometimes both. |
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At its worst, the exhibition muddied such sociological pronouncements with a problematic celebration of beauty, ideality and essential femininity. |
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His efforts to connect on economic policy have been muddied by an ideological incoherence that once served as his greatest strength in appealing to voters across party lines. |
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He also gave the example of the leader of the government, that is the Prime Minister, who did not open his books and, once again, muddied the waters as much as possible so that citizens know nothing. |
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The addition of the second batch of paint muddied the bright colors to a dull and washed look. |
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Mr. Speaker, I think the waters that are muddied are between the Liberals and the Conservatives in terms of what this resolution actually says and where it is going to take us. We have never said to cut and run. |
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But instead of ramming home the message that he had done just that, opposition leaders muddied it with complaints that the announcement should have been made in parliament. |
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Cameron wants the waters muddied, he wants you to turn off. |
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During his emotional campaign, his articulacy and diplomacy had shown footballers in a new light, dispelling their image as muddied oafs and gaining them overwhelming public sympathy. |
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The transfer picture, of course, is muddied by those who continue to look towards Rangers' upcoming and crucial tribunal with HM Revenue and Customs. |
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We all know that in the give and take in a court trial sometimes the truth is actually somewhat muddied in order to make a point as, I might venture to say, is sometimes done in the House. |
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Because dozens of the landslides muddied the water in three Vancouver reservoirs, turbidity levels in the water treatment system rose 30 times the target causing drinking water that had never been cloudier. |
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The issue remains untested in Canada, and is somewhat muddied by the present requirement to submit a declaration as to the applicant's entitlement at the time of filing. |
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To stunned laughter Maurice Tadadjeu of the African Civil Society Organisation muddied the waters by observing that the continent's faith in the AU and its organs is misplaced. |
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It's important that the role of the police not be muddied. |
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The situation is further muddied by the huge variation in company structure of the ownership of the railway, its rolling stock and other assets. |
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Nor are the waters muddied by geographical politics, as we eschew regional bureaucracy, or any requirement to re-locate assets to particular booking centres. |
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When sweet and bitter mingled together, no reed was plaited, no rushes muddied the water, the gods were nameless, natureless, futureless. |
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However, as members of this House have discussed many times, there are industrial sectors where current economic conditions have muddied the waters. |
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Fleets of heavy trucks are brought in from time to time, summer and winter, to empty the manure pit, spread it on the land, and leave the roads muddied and broken for the local taxpayer to deal with. |
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Beyond that, however, the waters become somewhat muddied. |
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The discussion only muddied their understanding of the subject. |
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