Sentence examples for confounding statement from inspiring English sources

I said, "I know I can't see what's in them, but can I find out the date from which I couldn't see what's in them?" She replied, "Even the outsides of the records are sealed" — a confounding statement, as I envisioned envelopes surrounding envelopes, all sealed into infinity).

Turkey's probe into Minecraft began about a month ago, when Family and Social Policies Minister Aysenur Islam delivered a speech before the nation's parliament arguing that the game awarded points for violence (a dubious statement) and that it might promote violence against women specifically (a confounding statement).

We assessed whether the reporting of confounding improved after the STROBE statement.

6. Confounding issues: (e.g. verbatim statements of issues confounding the EBP educational intervention or interpretation of the learning outcome).

Those statements confounded Wall Street executives because backup centers could not reliably capture trading data instantaneously — known as synchronous data storage — if they were much more than 100 miles away.

Senator Snowe, in a statement, described the Bush policy as "confounding to me," arguing that strong family planning programs reduced the number of abortions.

Was Bob once again confounding all of our expectations by making a Buddhist statement about the transitory nature of all things?

Almost from the start, Mr. Wahid, one of Indonesia's leading Islamic clerics, had seemed out of touch with the realities of his struggling nation, confounding his countrymen with whimsical changes in course and odd, impulsive statements.

(sorry for all the rhetorical questions) This statement accomplishes the amazing feat of being both offensive and utterly confounding at the same time.

The joint Justice Department-F.B.I. statement accompanying the release of the full transcript was defensive and still confounding.

The statement "nobody wins not quite true," but you could say that Afghanistan is "confounding the optimism of people who go in there".