Sentence examples for were perplexed with from inspiring English sources

At the constitutional convention in Philadelphia in 1787, the men who framed the federal government made a great many compromises, but "the Convention were perplexed with no part of this plan so much as with the mode of choosing the President," as the Pennsylvania delegate James Wilson later explained.

"I'm perplexed with all that stuff," Valentine said of the warning, not the first issued to a Mets pitcher this year.

Even so, Rogers wrote that he was "perplexed with the melancholy prospect of [his] affairs".

As the group indulge in various luxuries such as showers and wine, many of them are perplexed with the situation.

Many physicians are perplexed with an acute increase in the rate of pregnancies and live birth, and a decrease rate of abortions among the women in the Washington DC area.

What is perplexing with Davutoglu's remarks is that if Turkey is determined to fight ISIS and eradicate the group, why choose Aleppo as a target rather than the caliphate capital, Raqqa?

But the doctors campaigning for an inquest said they were "perplexed and outraged" with the decision.

"When we were offered the space on the billboard, we were perplexed about what to do with it," said Josh Ocean, 27, the band's lead singer.

For six weeks—until a flood allowed him to drift downstream to a river, where he was rescued he was both held hostage by the Matsés, who were perplexed about what to do with him, and enraptured by them.

But others associated with the N.B.A. were perplexed by the Knicks' actions and questioned whether they were proper.

Last year we were perplexed by Richard Prince's questionable tryst with lemon fizz beverages, but the NADA/AA endeavor is even stranger.