Sentence examples for confusing for people from inspiring English sources

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Shortly after it opened, the restaurant ran into legal trouble when the Royal Pharmaceutical Society threatened a lawsuit saying the name was confusing for people who were looking for a real drug store.

From one of our forums, user kittylester writes: "My mum wanted to be called 'Nanna' but my eldest son could only manage 'Anna' so it stuck and now all her grandchildren call her Anna – which is confusing for people who don't know, as her name is Alice but her nickname is Babs.

While other announcements by Alistair Darling could be seen positively - the £60 bonus in January, for instance - last week was confusing for people planning for retirement, especially women with patchy National Insurance contribution records, people with small pension funds and the very wealthy.

She said: "Sometimes it's hard for people to understand how to treat me as a leader because they're sometimes waiting for me to punch them in the face, or sometimes they're waiting for me to say, 'Oh gee, you sound so smart, why don't I just do it your way?'… I'm neither one or the other, and sometimes it's confusing for people … Do you treat them the way you treat men?

"It can be a bit confusing for people.

"When you are on the border here, it is a bit confusing for people.

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That's easily confused for people.

Also confusing for some people was the case of Ronald Dixon, the subject of another column in February.

Lowery acknowledged that it might be "confusing" for some people to hear this, given G.M.'s long-standing opposition to raising federal fuel-economy standards.

Choosing the right phone card can be confusing for many people because of the rapid expansion of the prepaid calling market over the last decade.

That's probably never going to happen," said Ms. Kitzman, adding that although insurance language is confusing for most people, it is the department's role to translate that jargon for consumers and ensure that insurers' rates are not "inadequate, excessive or unfairly discriminatory".

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