Sentence examples for confusing building from inspiring English sources

In all fairness to Ms. Lancaster, she has been praised for modernizing the city's confusing building code, imposing integrity standards and making records accessible to the public.

The reason for not introducing these standards is quite clear – we want to end the minefield of overlapping and confusing building standards that have built up in recent years, and instead have a system based on building regulations and a clear set of standards.

Last year in Logar, a car bomb attack by the Taliban destroyed a hospital, causing scores of casualties, but the bomber appears to have confused the building with the intended government targets nearby.

These were missions built on ideology, aspiration and good intention, which disastrously confused nation building and counter-insurgency with counter-terrorism.

How fortunate that academics and "critical theorists" don't suffer from this problem themselves.Adrian FletcherLetchford, HertfordshireThe built environmentSIR – Your report on green buildings confuses two such buildings in Pittsburgh ("The rise of the green building", December 4th).

Yes, President Bush was coming to Belfast for a couple of hours and – perhaps confusing the parliament building at Stormont for his very own White House (an easy mistake, although Stormont is grander) – seemed intent on turning this little corner of the east into a mini DC.

Europe can't be bothered either; the figures that are constantly quoted often confuse self build and custom building.

The vegetation was denser than she remembered, and the buildings were confusing to her.

From the song sparrow to the hermit thrush to the Baltimore oriole, birds migrating from the south in the spring and from the north in the fall are attracted by the lights of buildings, apparently confusing a light bulb with the stars that they navigate by.

We are "a party of the left-plus", Lucas responds, adding a slightly confused metaphor about "building the economic cake" which I lost the thread of.

The house where Walt Whitman lived while he was putting the finishing touches on that book, the house that so many people have confused with the building on Cranberry Street, is in fact the place on Ryerson.