Sentence examples for confounds from inspiring English sources

Leslie Wilson, author of My Last Train from Kummersdorf Good Night Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian is a deeply touching story that confounds expectations of "the war story".

Sometimes it may lend an insight into the candidates that confounds the television images.

But your accompanying photograph of a smoker confounds the problem: it is the prejudice against lung cancer as a perceived self-inflicted disease that has inhibited major funding for research into detection and cure.

Prosecutors are preparing a separate indictment against the men, and the army is co-operating.This confounds the popular theory that Ergenekon is part of the struggle between the AKP and the top brass.

As a result, she has written a wholly convincing life of Morgan that confirms rather than confounds the character reference given to him by Robert La Follette, a United States Senator from Wisconsin, in 1910: "A beefy, red-faced, thick-necked financial bully, drunk with wealth and power".Morgan was, above his many other faults, a colossal hypocrite.

It also confounds Russian commentators who had argued the hearing was a secretive farce (not least because one of the adjudicators is a former director of MI5).The tribunal accepted that someone in Ms Zatuliveter's position would be of interest to Russia's spymasters and that MI5 was rightly suspicious about her contacts and behaviour.

This confounds all expectations, since one of the usual risk factors for infection with HIV is the length of prostitution.If this observation turns out to be correct, it suggests that exposure to the virus is actually "priming" a reaction against it in essence, the basis of vaccination.

The former schools secretary can be charmlessly pugnacious and his association with Gordon Brown, whom he served as aide and then cabinet ally for over a decade, confounds his claim to represent change.

Low growth also confounds the budget arithmetic and leaves no scope for higher spending or tax cuts to cushion the short-term impact of changes.

Economics is about trade-offs: a little bit of accessibility has been sacrificed here in exchange for conciseness and breadth of reference.One of the best things about the book is that it confounds stereotypes.

Yet the rate the ice is vanishing confounds these climatologists' models.