Sentence examples for perplexing example from inspiring English sources

"It is the most perplexing example of pharaonic economic policy in modern Brazil," said Raul Velloso, an independent expert on public spending.

Being, at heart, a smug, mean-spirited, condescending sort of person, I was afforded a great deal of pleasure by the Japanese's often erratic use of the English language – not in conversation, but on signs, menus, T-shirts and shop names, the most perplexing example being the word "Boobs" in 10ft-high letters on the side of a shopping mall outside Yokohama.

It's not hard to see why Chisholm finds this example perplexing.

Slightly perplexing is the example with brain receptor binding, with the unexplained appearance of a kon parameter to enable the estimation of the half-life of receptor dissociation from koff.

Something funny in the USA may be perplexing in France, for example.

He was pretty clear about what we ought to do (work for world government, for example), but "perplexed" about what he meant when he said that we ought to do it.

For example, it is perplexing that fission and budding yeast mutants in the Mus81 Mms4/Eme1 complex are not more sensitive to DSBs in somatic cells but show defects in meiotic recombination (in fission yeast, an essentially absolute defect), a DSB-initiated HR event.

Officials pointed to another example of how they become perplexed.

(I Love Bees and Perplex City are seminal examples of the form).

For example, the HR team at one major multinational organisation we worked with was perplexed as to why the company had so few women at senior levels.

In the French case, onlookers may be perplexed by finding tu insulting; it appears to be all the rage in Parisian new-media circles, for example.