Sentence examples for confuse the case from inspiring English sources

Williams appears to confuse the case in which a utilitarian George acts against his personal interests (in which case his integrity would be preserved) with the case in which a non-utilitarian George is somehow persuaded to act as a utilitarian (in which case his integrity would not be preserved).

The contradictory testimony by the state's two chief investigators demonstrates how convoluted and confusing the case has become in the more than 26 years since Miss Moxley was bludgeoned to death with a golf club outside her family's home in the gated Belle Haven section of Greenwich.

While 12.9% could not name it at all, 19 individuals (5.3%) confused the case presented in the shigellosis vignette with cholera.

We then confuse the atypical case with the ordinary case in which low wellbeing levels do signify a person's having been made worse off.

It is possible that Mr. Faso was confusing the A.I.G. case with Mr. Spitzer's separate case against the company's ousted chief executive, Maurice R. Greenberg, which is continuing.

Pointing out the number of events in this case may confuse the students, because different people may have different criteria for distinguishing a subevent.

In some cases, people confuse the "biological" approach of evolutionary science, which seeks to understand how genes contributed to the evolution of humans as a species, with the field of behavioral genetics, which investigates to what extent heredity accounts for how traits like shyness or schizophrenia vary from person to person.

"In some cases, the sponsors confuse the symptoms of the problem with the root cause," says Felter.

After the first trial, prosecutors scaled back the number and complexity of charges against Mr. Blagojevich, having heard from his first jury that they were confused by the case.

Culleton said he hadn't received any notice from the court although he had since spoken with the registry, which he claimed appeared to be confused about the case.

The preliminary findings bolster Toyota's contentions that there's no evidence of flaws in electronic controls on its vehicles and that motorists in some cases confused the accelerator and brake pedals.