Sentence examples for on a muddle from inspiring English sources

Most big EU countries rely on a muddle of "reference pricing", price caps and other regulations to set generics prices.

And whereas even Alexander's fame depended heavily on a muddle of myth and tall tales, Julius Caesar was also remembered as a genuine historical figure.

It is blamed on a muddle and clashes between Lord Raglan, commander-in-chief, and his subordinates, Lord Lucan and Lord Cardigan.

At the bottom mark, Oracle outwitted and outmaneuvered the Kiwis again, rounding with a 20-second advantage and then building on it during the upwind leg and finally crossing the finish line 1 minute 24 seconds in front, and — just to be clear on a muddle of a day — well within the 40-minute time limit at 27 minutes and 20 seconds.

The hold-up was blamed on a muddle over paperwork although some Russia-watchers suspected it was a calculated Kremlin snub to the Republican Mr Lugar.Mr Obama now plays down the episode, but his first-hand experience of the Russian bureaucracy's capacity for at best capricious incompetence and at worst vindictiveness could yet prove telling.

But other pastas are a study in squandered potential: squid-ink linguine daubed with sea urchin, handsome but vapid; calamari mingling with its pasta look-alike, short tubes of paccheri, a delightful visual joke undermined by a soupy sauce; tagliatelle strewn with nubs of striped bass with the skin still on, a muddle barely salvaged by capers and pulverized bread crumbs.

"There is so much more of a muddle on foreign policy now," said Jon B. Alterman, the director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Meanwhile, Labor has found itself in a bit of a muddle over its stance on penalty rates.

"The government's policy on bonuses is a muddle.

When the crisis escalated this summer, several United Nations agencies became involved as well.But from then on it became a muddle.

For experts who make their living studying Congressional races, Ms. Schmidt's loss was still a muddle on Wednesday.