The whole question of the Scottish parliament is a constitutional muddle and it needs to be sorted out.
If we attempt to separate these two according to outer procedures we shall end in a muddle.
But Mr Ekins said he thought the Government's transport policy was in a muddle.
He'd assembled a Catalogue of Printed Books at Middle Hill, but it seemed a hopeless muddle.
Talking through teeth gritted against the gelid wind, we converse in a muddle of French, English and Arabic.
They'll quickly realise that their things can't be found in a muddle, or that clothes don't walk to the washing machine on their own.
Our patient is crowned king and expected to sort out this delightfully convoluted muddle.
Npower has now sorted out the muddle, apologised to you and sent you a goodwill payment.
Small firms are choking to death in a planning process increasingly marked by bureaucratic muddle and delay.
Yet somehow I have managed to muddle through and have not done too badly out of life.
When I left my husband I knew it would be tough and I told myself we'd have to muddle through.
Restructuring will be disruptive for the top management of the industry, but it cannot afford to muddle along any longer.
However, I have enough faith in the inherent common sense of the human race to believe that we will, as ever, just manage to muddle through.
Under the present law there are several options, the least effective of which is to do nothing and hope those affected can muddle through.
We can be Asian Welsh, Afro-Caribbean Scottish, Pakistani English, and all somehow muddle through together.
Have you heard of using that muddler to actually muddle the sugar, lime and mint?
I came across a heart-warming story of love and humanity in this crazy muddle of politics and religion.
There is fleeting footage of everyone from Nick Cave to New Order, but one critic dismissed it as a structureless muddle.
Normal speech is a muddle, a mix of sentence fragments and hesitations, repetitions and interruptions.
It is as if the novel's intellectual and ideological muddle is merely a superficial layer of flotsam bobbing on a boiling sea of emotion.
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The film has surprising warmth, with characters who muddle through increasingly bleak circumstances as humanely as they can.
At the worst of times, this nearly-three-hour self-indulgent muddle of a faux epic is flat-out unbearable.
Each of the three compartments inside contains a muddle of cheap plastic widgets.
He ends by saying that sadly his guess is that the screening programme will continue to muddle along within the insular world of the ministry.
Guy never allows the labyrinth of plots and counterplots to muddle his story.
It cries out to be exploited as a grand folly, an emblem of muddle, hype and plain foolishness with enormous entertainment potential.
The muddle, fuddle, blunder and guddle that followed has only helped turn devolution into a source of national embarrassment.
Amid the muddle, Australia and New Zealand, the region's most influential powers, stood aghast as outrage followed outrage.
The game degenerated into something of a muddle for a spell, with both sides missing passes and points galore.
So you just grin and bear it and somehow muddle your way through, always focusing on your kid's desire to have a good day with the other parent.
But I just grit my teeth and muddle through to the next topic which catches my mind's eye.
If your money ends up in a right muddle, you could lose the roof over your head.
We are so accustomed to his immense tidiness as a novelist, that the slightest muddle in his work looks like chaos.
But the blackout has refocused attention on the government's muddle over electricity.
After many retakes and recriminations, he finally manages to muddle through, and the session comes to an end.
The real evil is the muddle, the tangle of evasions, words, intrigues by which he instinctively seeks to dodge reality.
Governments typically muddle through rather than being masterfully on top of things.
In a mixing glass, moderately muddle syrup, bitters, mint, orange and lime together.
Managing a nervous smile, Alicia wished him good night, mounted her bicycle and rode home, her mind a muddle of happiness and apprehension.
In trying to explain the complex mythological system of the show, all the creators have done is muddle an already chaotic mess.
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However, I do not want to further muddle an already confusing issue with what, for most of us, are technicalities.
Liberals gravitate toward the gray to muddy the waters, to muddle people's thinking.
All this action does is muddle the faithful and bring the faith into needless disrepute.
Although a problem in computer ethics may seem clear initially, a little reflection reveals a conceptual muddle.
Place the mint, tangerine, lime juice and syrup in a shaker tin, muddle all ingredients together.
Your barmen know how to muddle a mean Mojito, and house DJs pump out loud and happy vibes until late.
Requiring your bartenders to cut the lemons and muddle them in front of the customer each time a drink is ordered is too arduous.
Instead of lime and sugar, we muddle oranges into the glass and use an orange syrup with the Bacardi.
World class bar staff mix and muddle a variety of concoctions, from herb-infused cosmopolitans to fresh fruit Martinis.
I've had flu since Friday, in a muddle of tissues and lying down, drowsily watching DVDs, and no appetite.
Even if, like me, you think the polls are often in a muddle, they do tell a consistent story on economic management.
Sounds were bouncing around the walls, creating an auditory muddle.
Meanwhile, the muddle in Malaysia makes it far harder for the searchers to know where to look.
Governments manage to muddle through much more often than you think they possibly can.
At the moment, as reprsented by this thread, it seems to me a confused muddle of mixed intentions, vague accusations, misunderstandings and so on.
It will look a little weak and unsystematic, which concerns me and some bad things could muddle through.
What often becomes shockingly obvious is that the garden is in a muddle.
Henry got himself into a hopeless muddle about his sublet offices.
In other hands it would dissolve into a hopeless muddle of ideas.
That common denominator gets lost in the muddle, sometimes, when we talk about fashion.
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But the bureaucratic muddle began after ministers farmed the project out to the Confederation of Scottish Local Authorities, the umbrella body for councils.
Off to the sides, however, the Royal Mile disintegrated into a hopeless muddle of squalid wynds and alleyways peopled by beggars, pickpockets and the poor.
That's another kettle of fish entirely and I despair of physicians and others who confuse and muddle invalidity and melancholy as being one and the same thing.
But this's the copy that's on release, in which what's discernible is not poetic spareness or austere lyricism, but unendurable tedium and muddle.
Shaw, to give him his credit, is trying to sort the muddle out.
Maybe I have a propensity for those sort of muddles, but maybe I'd rather have a propensity for that sort of a muddle, for my demonstrative pronouns are very dear to me.
Hanson tells us to suck it up and muddle through, and he is right.
Still, I certainly and completely understand why you're all in a muddle.
Those desperate to find a middle ground in this political muddle could find some silver linings in the survey findings.
Indeed, they may muddle along a little better, armed with the view that the world is subject to their control.
Whenever I meet the twins, I always muddle up their names. I call John Jim, and Jim John.
Conflans tried unsuccessfully to resolve the muddle, but in the end decided to put to sea again.
She meant to use the cumbrous machine to pick out this, that, and the other interesting person from the muddle of the world.
Tammar wallabies that live on the well-lit landscape of Australia's largest naval base muddle the timing of their natural breeding season.
Better, I tell myself, to muddle through unphilosophically in cheerful, unreflecting, pragmatic ignorance.
For the most part, however, he gives every sign of trying to muddle along.
But the reader is happy to let that muddle fade from view in order to learn more about the connections between Bellmer and Grunewald.
Ms Conroy says even the most expert witness can deliver badly in the courtroom and can muddle up cases.
There are no established jurisdictive precedents to establish the line notwithstanding the muddle as to whether we are common law or Civil law associated State.
The muddle of nervous speech he uttered did not have much meaning.
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I've only had a few lessons, but I can muddle through the test.
So came the muddle that is If Katie Hopkins Ruled The World, a curious, schizoid beast that can't decide if it's a panel show, game show, comedy or serious debate platform.

First there is the everlasting muddle as to the internationalist attitude towards the likelihood of war.
I would not be obliged to muddle along in the blind fashion of the last two days, feeling a frightful fool.
He would let England muddle along somehow till he made this alliance with the beautiful Missourienne.
It remained, though, not to muddle by any slip or miscue what Providence had vouchsafed.
You merely come here because Mr. Kenyon is in a muddle about what I am going to do.
I have been spending all the afternoon getting on to the phone to Paris to untangle the muddle.
For years England managed to muddle along with Ireland by inviting nationalists out to dinner.
You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
On the other hand, the man who wound it up thinks the whole cause of the muddle rests with the man who is trying to unwind it.
Philip would have a spasm of horror at the muddle he had made.
The alternative will be for many small and medium sized businesses to muddle through and rely upon horse sense.
If anybody can see a glimmer in this cussed muddle Keziah Coffin can.
I've been working away at mathematics till my head is in a muddle, and I'm going to freshen my wits by a brisk turn.
What a muddle, what a hodge-podge I have made of this pen work!
The regiment, involved like a cart involved in mud and muddle, started unevenly with many jolts and jerks.
She was part of the insanely jumbled muddle of a world which impedes the sensible life.
We did not know the situation, and we had bought Berande, and there was nothing to do but hang on and muddle through somehow.
I don't intend to muddle along making a pittance like a hand logger.
The bureaucratic muddle, so it seems, is to continue indefinitely.
These books are only good to muddle your head and make you jumpy.
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This going to hunt up her shiftless husband at the inn was one of Mrs Durbeyfield's still extant enjoyments in the muck and muddle of rearing children.
You'll never do it if you muddle yourself up with that stuff.

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