Sentence examples for confounding efforts from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

For Dr. Wiley, the most striking insight is that each humpback has its own set of behaviors, often confounding efforts to generalize about the species.

While these entrepreneurs insist that their services are legitimate, the Greek authorities contend that many of the shops are concealing a rapidly expanding illicit trade in gold, and that much of it is being smuggled out of the debt-racked country, confounding efforts to curb rampant tax evasion.

Confounding efforts to contain the disease is the reduced effectiveness of this season's vaccine (Sun 2018).

Today, it is estimated that as much as a third of the 8.7 million new cases of TB last year went undiagnosed and untreated, confounding efforts to stop the spread of a disease.

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

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.

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

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.

While revealing the rising potential for epic storms, the new findings are likely to confound efforts to discern whether human alterations of the atmosphere, particularly a buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, are increasing the frequency of severe downpours, as many climate experts have predicted.