Sentence examples for puzzling position from inspiring English sources

This puts his democratic principle in a rather puzzling position.

Taking into consideration the aforementioned reports, both HGT as well as hybridization might be responsible for the topology of phylogenetic trees and the puzzling position of some species.

His puzzling positioning, lurking near his back post as Chris Hackett curled in a free-kick from deep on Millwall's left flank, meant Neil Harris could hardly miss when he rose to head the ball in a central position.

This makes it all the more puzzling why the position of chief public diplomat is still vacant over halfway through the new president's first hundred days.

More puzzling is the positioning of the second charged residue (namely Glu) of the conserved MPEL motif.

Whereas the findings for income decrease are intuitive and straightforward, the health outcomes for income increase among men (and sex differences in inconsistent income position) were puzzling and somewhat unexpected.

By the end of the previous coach's reign the midfield in particular looked like a disorganized mess, with puzzling squad selections and positioning leaving Mexico vulnerable — and that's before opposing attackers got near a goalline conspicuous for the absence of Mexico's best goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa.

His position is somewhat puzzling because it's Americans, not the Chinese, who will pay the tariffs on Chinese imports.

But the RNC's position here is puzzling and counter-intuitive.

This new view has been adopted in recent scenarios that explain the whole evolution of life on earth [ 9], so it is important to our understanding of bacterial evolution that the puzzling phylogenetic problem of the position of Aquificales within the bacterial phylogeny gets solved.

At best, then, the Government's position is ambiguous, if not puzzling.