Sentence examples for confusing means from inspiring English sources

And when he was apparently caught in the act in 1911, he hired as his counsel the most ruthless criminal lawyer he could find — a flashy-dressing, hard-drinking, anti-union conservative — because there was no point in confusing means and ends.

You are confusing means and ends.

The servant has become master, confusing means with ends.

For eldercare, there will be two caps and a confusing means test, together with new rules about eligibility and qualifying care.

He does not confuse means with ends.

As Deutsch notes in "The Fabric of Reality," "To say that prediction is the purpose of a scientific theory is to confuse means with ends.

Be this as it may, it is important not to confuse means with ends.

Don't confuse "mean" with "moody".

However, in a war that was originally supposed to be about responding to a terrorist attack rather than engaging in nation-building, that sort of complaint confuses means with ends.

(If by confusing you mean relatively straightforward with a few notable exemptions).

Some people blame the war in Iraq, but that is to confuse the means of recruitment with its fundamental causes.