Sentence examples for aim to confuse from inspiring English sources

You sense that it's not Shamir's aim to confuse or beguile, it just seems to happen.

For those agencies tasked with devising competition policy, another consideration should be retailer practices that aim to confuse or mislead consumers (Ellison and Ellison 2009).

That exchange has several elements: the condemnation of the philosophical view as nonsensical; the claim that some philosophers aim to confuse; and the claim that views are promoted in order to control the public and take their money.

This is a "feinting" move in which you aim to confuse the keeper by making a stutter step as you run up to take the kick.

In full-page newspaper ads on July 21st, Star complained of "a mix of vested interests, commercial pressures and competitive agenda" and a "media campaign aimed to confuse and mislead people".Star India, wholly owned by News Corp, is now the market leader.

Instead of attempting to render warships invisible, he aimed to confuse the enemy with contrasting colours and shapes that distorted the ship's form and obscured its movement in the water.

The deimatic display is a secondary defence response used to threaten or bluff the predator while a flash of displays is an escape behaviour used only after an attack is imminent and aims to confuse or disorient the predator in order to provide a window of escape (Humphries and Driver, 1970; Edmunds, 1974; Moynihan, 1983; Hanlon and Messenger, 1996).

To be honest, my real aim is to confuse genres, as it always gives reviewers something to chatter about and makes it difficult for them to judge me.

The aim is "to confuse, to confuse, nothing more... to introduce into the case some other, unrelated circumstances that will entangle other people in it, to make it complicated".

"The aim is to confuse rather than convince, to trash the information space so the audience gives up looking for any truth amid the chaos".

Nate makes it sound like the "street fight" was of the scientists choosing, completely turning on its head what Nature was actually talking about: scientists finding a better way to defend science from cynical attacks whose sole aim is to confuse the public about what we actually do know about climate change (and therefore forestall any efforts to deal with it).