Sentence examples for confused orders from inspiring English sources

In addition, reservists returning from the front complained of confused orders as well as shortages of food, water, and equipment.

The French fleet was subject to confused orders as it left port and was scattered across the approaches to Brest: one ship was wrecked with heavy loss of life and the others widely dispersed.

The Canadians had just retaken it, and Major Remus was left with confusing orders from the top.

Despite backlash about confusing ordering, Instagram now says relevancy sorting has led to its 800 million-plus users seeing 90percentt of their friends' posts and spending more time on the app.

The rest of the division had somehow confused its orders and did not follow the 53rd and the rest of its brigade.

They meander like fleshy beige lampposts through crowds of indifferent natives, bewildered and confused, bellowing orders at their children.

But Tiffany confused the order with items the Berricks had bought for themselves, among them a crystal vase and decanter totaling about $180, a large sum at the time.

Had the electrodes directly spurred eye movements (rather than that movement responding to where the brain had processed the flash as coming from) the eyes would have moved between the flashes but confused the order of the real and the artificial flash.

Prompts to correct a participant when they had confused the ordering of steps were often given several seconds after they should have been.

He ordered an attack, but a miscommunication of his orders confused part of his army and the Hungarian regiment began to retreat.

Raffi Khatchadourian's "The Kill Company," about a group of soldiers who, perhaps confused by unclear orders, murdered a number of Iraqi civilians, explores the burdens placed upon soldiers by counter-insurgency.