Administration officials reject the criticism about confusing signals.
But the data is far from infallible and can sometimes send out confusing signals.
There are also confusing signals about the degree of the economy's weakness.
While Trump supported the bill and sought to build support for it, he also sent confusing signals suggesting that he might be open to changes.
SANA, Yemen — President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned to Yemen on Saturday night, days after he signed an agreement in Saudi Arabia yielding his powers to his deputy and amid increasingly confusing signals about the structure of the country's leadership.
Suffice to say, if you buy into the music you'll love the daft, dizzy mythology surrounding the characters involved, which delights in sending out confusing signals and represents a fun, imaginative alternative to the normal, boring routines involved in being part of a record company.
On the day she heard that the Red Girl was sent to Anguilla to live with her grandparents, the writer had a dream: they both lived on an island where they sent confusing signals to the ships, causing them to crash on some nearby rocks.
Creasy, the Labour MP for Walthamstow, who has campaigned against the payday lending industry's practices, criticised the government for sending "confusing" signals to the regulator, and said the coalition was "playing catch-up" with Labour, who have said they would bring in a cap if they were handed power in 2015.
Vedanta had always been known for copper, aluminum and zinc and this entry into iron ore sent confusing signals to investors.
On ABC's This Week, conservative pundit George Will took up the case against Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, arguing that it sent confusing signals to capitalists (who apparently might otherwise have pursued lucrative deals in the 1930s market place) and turned a depression into the Great Depression.
On the other hand, you risk confusing signals and meaning if you give in to situations that aren't right for you simply out of fear of loss or longing.
