| Both have their own special charm, but whereas Paris is all about order, London is all about muddling through. |
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| I noticed this morning that London Bridge station, after years of muddling through without a logo, has gained one. |
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| Y'know you're just muddling along in a better-than-average indie band and suddenly you're proclaimed the saviours of rock-and-roll. |
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| So there you are, muddling along with your new bog-standard toaster, when you get a surprise gift of a top-of-the-range model. |
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| My brain is frantically muddling through, trying to make sense of what's happening to me. |
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| I had even put in soft lenses, which always hurt so badly, so that I didn't have to have glasses muddling up my face. |
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| As flawed as the human race is, we seem to be a lot better than the doomsayers think at muddling through. |
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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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| But last week I was moved by the illuminating brilliance or muddling complexity of the smaller questions. |
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| After three muddling performances in maiden races in May, I thought he might just possibly get there in the final furlong of a stayers ' race. |
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| Let me open up the category of muddling through, and there are two or three different ways offhand, of doing that. |
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| Mechanics is mathematicians trying to be physicists, but not quite managing it and just muddling me. |
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| Somehow, through the muddling of my thoughts, I blamed the whole situation on him. |
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| That would preclude idiots from muddling around in areas they have no knowledge of. |
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| Further muddling my ability to fuse my private and public sense of my relationship is the paradox of race in general. |
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| Much-ballyhooed social programs have sunk in a mire of administrative muddling. |
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| For a number of years I've been muddling in the mire of trying to figure out who and what I am in relation to church, denomination, God etc. |
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| Maybe he thinks persevering or even muddling through is the right thing in this situation. |
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| I'm just muddling around here like an ant in a potplant, not always realizing there are larger things out there than my little world. |
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| Remember, showmanship behind the bar is a very important aspect of the job, and muddling provides bartenders a great chance to prove their worth. |
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| She shook her head, the strange conversation muddling her thoughts. |
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| Further muddling the message is what's included in the bonus materials. |
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| She's made the odd flub or three, including muddling up her revolutionary history. |
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| By indistinctly muddling 8 May 1945 with the crimes of Stalinism, we do a disservice to the commemoration of the Liberation of Europe. |
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| This spring it may well join the ranks of the 150 nations currently muddling through with all their atoms unsplit. |
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| His efforts are in vain, however, as he only succeeds in muddling the central story while completely disengaging us from the characters on the screen. |
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| But by using hyperbole and muddling the difference between repressive regimes and the imperfections of democracy, Amnesty's spokesmen put its authority at risk. |
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| After muddling around for a few days, he comes out fully in favor of the government's position and vows to endorse whatever the government proposes in relation to boat people. |
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| No one could possibly object, for example, if marks were deducted for failing to remember the poem, or for muddling up the verses, or for serious errors of pronunciation. |
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| Out has gone the old, muddling approach, in has come good capital management methods, a tougher approach to diversification, and a commitment to boost returns. |
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| At first blissfully unaware of the looming nuclear catastrophe, their muddling path towards doom is in equal parts pathetic, frightening and funny. |
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| What a muddling mess this Minister is making of this portfolio. |
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| Too frenetically, say some critics, who claim presidential efforts are muddling those of people on the spot. |
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| By default, muddling through has emerged as the prescription of the moment. |
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| When you're in a stew – Sober or blotto, This is your motto: Keep muddling through! |
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| But many analysts believe that simply muddling through could be a recipe for disaster. |
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| It has not been a great success, and they are still muddling through and remain somewhat opaque in their decision-making process. |
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| This provides some insurance against the uncertainty of another election... Do not underestimate the British knack for muddling through. |
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| No. Was muddling along after nine years of an increasingly illegitimate, increasingly ineffective UN administration an option? |
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| In policy-making terms, it involves planning or muddling toward a path to course transition in the state of systems that are always in flux. |
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| Simply muddling along in the CCW will only give increasing justification to the mounting calls for a total prohibition on cluster munitions. |
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| Are you getting at the fact that perhaps what we see in religious practice is not so much dissent, active opposition, but a kind of muddling through? |
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| This tension in the bill comes from it muddling the issue of compensating prisoners for unlawful treatment by the crown with compensating their victims for pain and suffering. |
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| Instead of muddling through your HW in a sleep-deprived haze, allow yourself a 15-minute afterschool power nap. |
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| Doing nothing would involve waiting to see other cases apply CCH and industry and the Canadian general public muddling about trying to find their own way through allowable uses. |
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| It is in our interest too, because muddling along as they currently are not only produces losers in Ukraine, it also turns the EU into a loser, because we can only play our role there with some difficulty. |
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| The Lebanese have absorbed the blows of the Syrian proxy war by desensitizing themselves, an old habit born from years of muddling forward through violence, decaying infrastructure, and communal strife. |
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| The moral is that companies that take advantage of the downturn, rather than merely muddling through, will be best placed to accelerate when the good times roll once more. |
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| Their survival technique is muddling through. |
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| Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy, looking for the philosopher's stone. |
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| Why are they muddling a clear message being sent to Canadians? |
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| The people who have been muddling the message are the people across the floor with this kind of postal garbage that has been going out to Canadians. |
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| It requires interest in language that inspires us to seek the best instead of muddling our thoughts and our communications by using the second-rate just because it is handy. |
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| Many variables affect test results, muddling connections and causalities. |
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| After a king period of muddling through, the two one-way streets – bottom-up activism and top-down law and policy implementation – have finally met. |
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| For what are the coalition, if not a stagily squabbling set of proven losers who – let's face it – don't have a whole heap of options other than muddling along together? |
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| We must guard against any muddling of concepts. |
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| This means muddling through the issues at hand based on importance. |
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| An important empirical task is to determine whether purposive muddling is better than best practice when elites have reasons to impede progress for their populations. |
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| Muddling along and having panic attacks a year or two before your child has to attend secondary school or university is not conducive to a stress-free existence. |
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