Trading volumes "conflated", says Mr Milne, but markets remained open.A real pandemic, of course, would throw up a host of other problems.
Unfortunately, though, criticising Israel has been conflated with antisemitism".
Prejudices regarding Somalis, Islam and "backward African tribal customs" (a phrase that regularly pops up) are conflated to create an image of a dark, brutal, incorrigible mass who, to use Kipling's phrase, are "half devil, half child" and therefore cannot be trusted to even raise their own children decently.
The third of Potter's peerless quartet, the others being Gamesmanship, Lifemanship and Supermanship – all very well conflated in the Alastair Sim film School for Scoundrels.
It has conflated the interests of party and state, dishing out contracts for public works as rewards for loyalty hence the bitter jest that the government is in hock to "tenderpreneurs".
Though they convey a deliciously fruity flavour of the times, Lees-Milne sometimes conflated, embellished and even fantasised after or during the event, albeit often unconsciously.
The debate over asylum has thus become conflated with one over immigration in general.
Last week's story on drug use in the former Czechoslovakia incorrectly conflated the velvet revolution and the velvet divorce.
I think he has lazily or sneakily conflated public unhappiness about hard-to-integrate migrant communities with public anxiety about the sheer number of eastern Europeans who came over to work after 2004.
He cautions this "disruptive" innovation is not the same thing as "radical" or "breakthrough" innovation, although the notions are often conflated.
This gave rise to a situation where support for those military interventions was conflated with support for Mr Bush, and the odd Republican (or Democrat, such as the hawkish Joe Lieberman) who broke rank would end up marginalised.
