Sentence examples for confounded efforts from inspiring English sources

With the help of canny legal representatives, he confounded efforts to prosecute him, despite being arrested dozens of times.

Corruption in India is pervasive and has largely confounded efforts to combat it, according to Raj Kumar, who visited the Law School on April 12.

He also appears to have more loyalty from his close circle of aides than Mr. Hussein did, and therefore has confounded efforts to track him.

The politics of climate change in the United States have long confounded efforts to curb emissions, but Professor Joe Aldy has an idea that could appeal to both liberals and conservatives.

Often circumstantial, usually ambiguous and always incomplete, the evidence has confounded efforts by policymakers, intelligence officials and U.S. allies to reach a confident judgment about Iran's intentions and a diplomatic solution to the crisis.

The sharp decline has confounded efforts by urban planners, who over the years have tried to encourage the practice by setting aside highway lanes for car-poolers, as well as offering incentives like discounted parking.

Systematic seasonal bias may confound efforts to estimate usual dietary intake and diet quality.

They claim that the C.D.C. includes people whose problems are purely psychiatric, muddying the water and confounding efforts to find a physical cause.

Many environmental groups see the rising global trade as an ominous development, however, since it promises to confound efforts to limit global emissions.

But fundamental ideological differences about democracy, openness, values, and religious belief, compounding political and economic rivalries, may ultimately confound efforts to work together.

But spending on capital investments like new plants and infrastructure has stagnated more broadly in corporate America, confounding efforts by the Obama administration to spur economic growth.