Sentence examples for attempting to confuse from inspiring English sources

The victim would just need to show that another company was deliberately attempting to confuse customers by trading with a similar brand.

It was not immediately clear if they were Italian special forces attempting to confuse potential terrorists or American secret service agents trying to hide the effects of a more than usually gruesome hangover.

On 1 February, as the offensive reached its height, he wrote a memo for his staff which was never delivered claiming that "The enemy is attempting to confuse the issue...I suspect he is also trying to draw everyone's attention from the area of greatest threat, the northern part of I Corps.

However, the risk of infanticide may impact patterns of mating and reproductive skew differently, with females attempting to confuse paternity by mating promiscuously, while potentially concentrating actual paternity in the alpha male (Nunn 1999a).

This means you should state the problem directly, clearly and simply rather than beating around the bush or attempting to confuse the issue in order to make you look less responsible.

The Argentinian government attempts to confuse the issue by raising complicated arguments over territorial integrity, or questioning whether this right should apply to an allegedly implanted population.

And now the playwright and performance artist Mike Albo's first novel (or is it a memoir?), "Hornito," attempts to confuse and tease the reader in a similar manner.

Nevertheless, during the trial of Louis XVI by the Convention, the Girondins attempted to confuse the issues by accusing the Montagnards of conspiring to put Égalité on the throne.

He attempts to confuse and to provoke the unstable Raskolnikov in an attempt to coerce him to confess.

For over a decade, opponents of the estate tax attempted to confuse the public about who really paid the tax.

This indicates that whether or not females actively attempt to confuse paternity, the functional result of multi-male mating in orangutans is some degree of paternity confusion.