Sentence examples for but confounded from inspiring English sources

Greece teetered on the precipice but confounded predictions that Athens would crash out of the single currency.

But confounded by church attendance and a faithful Christian woman, their efforts are defeated when their subject dies in a bombing raid with his soul at peace.

The advance has left Israeli troops in control of the border region, but confounded the U.N. officials who have tracked the fighting: Hezbollah has continued to fire missiles, and the Israeli military seems reluctant to occupy much territory in what it has described as an effort to eliminate Hezbollah's armed presence across the frontier.

This ferocious protection of her art delighted purists (legend has it that Miles Davis, sitting in on one of her sessions, said: "I can't play on this record. It's already perfect"), but confounded hit-mongering music-biz execs, who responded to her like the patron toward Mozart in "Amadeus" -- "There are too many notes, you should take a few out". They had a point.

She was initially given three months to live, but confounded medical opinion by fighting the disease long after that.

Aside from his conviction that technological progress could help combat climate change, a view supported by new advances in carbon capture but confounded by slow progress on renewable energy, the Pope's focus on the relationship of technology to power is timely.

We are teaching them that words do not dazzle but confound.

But, confounding the opinion polls and pundits, she won by only a whisker.

Innovations in aviation have a mixed track record, to say the least, but confounding the sceptics has been part of it from the start.

(In the film, Redford clashes with his coach, played by Gene Hackman, but confounds everyone by winning Olympic gold, 15 years before Johnson).

The within-subject comparison offers high power (.83) but confounds the time of original output with the number of failed retrieval attempts prior to being output.