Sentence examples for confusing reference from inspiring English sources

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He assured us that the Americans had become "bogged down," and made a somewhat confusing reference to the movie "Wag the Dog".

Mr. Qandil also made a confusing reference to sexual assault, saying that in many villages "the men go to the mosque" while "the women go to the fields and they get raped".

Romney also made a somewhat confusing reference to conflicts abroad, in the context of knocking Obama's inaction so far to stave off cuts to the Pentagon budget, which are set to take effect next year under a budget deal reached last year.

And then we killed them," Paul said, in a highly confusing reference to Libya's 2003 abandonment of its nuclear program -- which many attributed to its fear of U.S. military action after the invasion of Iraq, and to the death earlier this year of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

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Hohfeld thought that, strictly speaking, something was a legal right only if it corresponded to a duty on another, but he argued that legal usage was often confusing because the reference was really to one of the other concepts.

"People describe the scene as a confusing kaleidoscope of references," Ms. Bruder writes.

Most criticisms of rock operas actually incorrectly describe what we call a "musical," or the confusing "rock musical", and reference the lack of importance in musical integrity.

In fact I often find, when reading, that the Internet can make lots of obscure references and confusing descriptions crystal clear.

From the experimental results, it can be seen that each kind of motion samples has the confusing similarity against the other reference samples with low sampling dimension, especially the one-dimensional infrared sampling on synergistic motions of the upper and lower limbs.

That's Wasted Days: a confusing mash-up of outdated references and repetitive chanting in place of a chorus.

Give each of these topics their own section (usually denoted by numbers or letters) to keep your SOP from being wordy and confusing and to allow for easy reference.

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