Ashcroft has always sought to confound expectations.
Your character wags its tail, its eyes clenched shut as it streaks through the vaginal passage, dodging viruses, white blood cells, and acid pools, seeking to confound the human immune system and achieve its life-seeding goal.
According to rumour, the author was first going to name the instalment after the magical wizards' tournament around which the plot is structured, but when word of this leaked on the internet she sought to confound the leakers by switching titles.
The comforts of the spectacularly avant-garde five-star W hotel on the Barcelona seafront will have done little to soften the acute sense for Manuel Pellegrini that his career is on the line as his Manchester City side seek to confound expectations in the Nou Camp tonight.
Humans have, since the first paintings scratched on cave walls, sought to confound the final vanishing of memory.
Even those mischievously seeking to confound people in their work couldn't do it as well as the reality-bending mind of Philip K. Dick.
The writers try to confound expectations.
Our analysis seeks to minimise confounding referable to factors other than changes in incidence and case detection rate.
Because there are not widely implemented techniques to assess whether observational studies are valid when there is risk of confounding, the current study seeks to clarify and provide guidance to address this problem.
Propensity adjustment seeks to adjust the model to eliminate this type of confounding on the basis of treatment assignment.
