But events in the coming months could confound that decision.
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But the stridency of his condemnations sometimes confound fellow conservatives.
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Perhaps it is a calculated strategy to confound America's foes.
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But Soul Man manages to confound even one's worst expectations.
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It would surprise the political establishment and confound the media.
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The fast, sloping greens can still confound the game's best.
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Might it equally confound the bears on the way down?
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The most random things will pop up and confound you.
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Those positions confound even some of her former Republican supporters.
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Mr. Trump's decisions benefiting Russia confound Democrats and Republicans alike.
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You always manage to confound and delight at the same time.
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The backlash against the Civil Rights movement continues to confound us.
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Now is the moment to confound her critics by acting decisively.
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How did Mr. Trump manage to confound America's foreign policy mandarins?
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He has always felt an inexplicable desire to provoke, to confound.
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But sometimes the Washington Wizards are so enigmatic that they confound themselves.
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Our bodies still confound, and we are, it seems, punished for that.
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Still, many things have remained the same: Hurricanes often confound the forecasters.
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The effect is intended to confound and challenge (and enlighten) the visitor.
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Have I mentioned there are enough love triangles here to confound Euclid?
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Parents and grandparents continue to confound us when it comes to sharing news.
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But don't confound this Welsh classic with the gooey, orange, stateside grilled cheese.
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We've written of some of the problems that confound the best AI systems.
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Still, this recognizable, though different iPhone X design might confound or frustrate some.
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The idea that Apple enhances its security to confound law enforcement is nonsense.
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This has helped them confound doubters and grow briskly despite their massive size.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads However defined, prose poems usually confound me.
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He waves his hand at me, like I'm purposely trying to confound him.
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The lack of wage pressure continues to confound policymakers, but it should not.
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We hope he can confound the skeptics, including ourselves, and pull it off.
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Hostilities would confound a Trump 2016 campaign trail promise to avoid foreign entanglements.
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If he is to confound history in November, that will have to change.
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Its mysteries continue to confound the public and get scientists talking, to this day.
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I have primarily been using the Lego Batmobile to confound my young dog, Scout.
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They confound foreign fans by sending up club chants during lulls in the action.
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Messrs Houston and Ferdowsi may continue to confound the giants for a while yet.
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Sometimes, those things confound our ability to tell simple stories about how power works.
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Analysts on a Biogen conference call asked if that imbalance might confound the results.
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But the message could confound some ordinary North Koreans, said a South Korean official.
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He, too, has been able to divert and confound through this deceptively simple means.
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Later missions add scorching lava, spike walls and more terrain obstacles to confound your planning.
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For decades he continued to confound expectations, selling millions of records with dense, enigmatic songwriting.
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These complications can confound even seasoned law enforcement, making programs like ViCAP even more important.
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He wanted to provoke, to unsettle, even to confound — to make people think and act.
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The bulls are hoping they can confound all expectations and pull out another monthly advance.
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But in the meantime, the form continues to confound students, especially those of limited means.
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What constitutes a catch seems to confound coaches and players, fans and commentators, every week.
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The layered images of the collage-like paintings offer one view only to confound it.
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In particular, he looked at how asymmetric information can confound the design of income-tax systems.
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This will confound Democrats whose opposition tactics have evolved over time to counter normal Republican politicians.
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Beauty, therefore, would not confound natural selection — it would be very much a part of it.
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The illness, which he said had affected him since Thanksgiving, continues to confound and frustrate him.
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Ending the cost-sharing subsidies would confound the expectations on which the current marketplace is based.
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The exorbitant prices confound patients and doctors alike since insulin is nearly a century old now.
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By collaborating with an array of musicians she has continued to confound expectations and demonstrate her versatility.
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It's deceptive, too, built around pop hooks, drawing the listener in for long enough to confound them.
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"The president should confound expectations, pivot, and turn to Democrats for a bipartisan deal," Noonan wrote Friday.
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But Colombia's Constitutional Court has imposed several stipulations that may confound the government's ability to do so.
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What they have in common is their ability to surprise and confound and even infuriate the audience.
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Well, the towering Ivorian can, with unimaginable dexterity, confound opponents, and he did so before the final whistle.
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The new frontier in economics is behavioral psychology: the study of why we contradict ourselves and confound others.
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But structural forces now confront him that are likely to confound and confuse his very thin senior staff.
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Xinjiang authorities have recently enforced a spate of regulations against Uighur customs, including some that confound common sense.
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It might aid surprise attacks or confound them, and the death toll could range from none to millions.
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Barty has an exceptional all-court game, using her athleticism and wide array of shots to confound opponents.
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A wine menu is similarly designed to delight and confound, with unique wines from all over the world.
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So does the administration of Donald Trump finally have a big foreign policy win to confound its naysayers?
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Why it matters: Moves like this can sometimes confound efforts to understand who exactly has spied on what.
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Eliminating questions that might confound an accurate picture of anxiety could skew the results in other, equally wrong ways.
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You can watch me typing in my password, but the mismatch of key labels and layout will confound you.
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Williams's micro-fictions are meant to unsettle and confound, to push our understanding of the world slightly off kilter.
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Still, it's not impossible that Trump's multitudes is a sign the grassroots uprising will confound conventional wisdom yet again.
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For that reason, it is possible that Mr Trump, ever keen to confound prognosticators, will try a different approach.
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People who can't tell the difference between a monument to slavery and a pro-slavery monument continually confound me.
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Their various theological arguments confuse and confound most mainstream media reporters and center-left and pure left-wing punditry.
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It has an immense historical sweep and a grand period aesthetic that might confound your expectations of "decolonized" cinema.
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Another drop in mortgage interest rates continued to confound expectations, but current homeowners saw a clear path to savings.
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But even seen today, when light art is all around, lumia retain a quiet power to dazzle and confound.
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" It annoyed him that people "stupidly and even maliciously confound Fantasy with Dreaming, in which there is no Art.
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Outbreaks of a deadly, sexually transmitted disease confound health officials, whose obstacles include drug shortages, uneducated doctors and gangs.
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Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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To confound matters, even the assumption that plaques and tangles cause the symptoms of Alzheimer's is now being questioned.
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Guatemalans confound the distinction between "economic migrants" and the types of persecution that the U.S. requires to grant asylum.
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One of the problems they face is beyond them to fix: electoral systems that confound shares of the total vote.
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But if there are no rules there is nothing to improvise with, no conventions to overturn, no arbitrariness to confound.
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The reason is the wet, windy conditions that confound players whose games rely on hitting towering 300-yard tee shots.
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If Justice Gorsuch sides with Roberts, Thomas and Alito, the court will confound conventional wisdom and take the Conagra case.
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The mysteries that they raise alongside Rauschenberg's images confound and enchant the viewer, haunting memory long after the performance ends.
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I think that may be the point — to confound us, so it's harder to keep our eye on the ball.
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Recent tragic outbursts of violence by individuals who are certainly disturbed and their glaring red flags missed confound the picture.
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Once a conflict has begun, an adversary's will, chance, and complex causal relationships will conspire to confound the intended outcome.
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Framing a multigenerational and diverse group of artworks under the blanket term "Material Art" may confound more than it clarifies.
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It turned out to be a visitor from beyond our solar system, and several of its odd features still confound astronomers.
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Its inclusion of ARPANET in a plotline, for example, doesn't confound; we understand it to be the precursor to the internet.
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CCP's EVE: Valkyrie could certainly have been developed as a standard space-fighting game, a genre whose controls usually confound me.
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After establishing an incredibly antagonistic relationship with the press in his first address, Spicer's prop-based briefings have continued to confound.
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The hosiery market isn't a small one, and there are literally thousands of weaves, blends, elasticities, and fibers to confound you.
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Russia is using the same meme-laden mindset as much of the alt-right does to confound, attack, and mock critics.
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The last two-thirds of the book are a compendium of rants on topics that both fascinate and confound the author.
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"It was not fear (confound the word!) of the prudery of the Anglo-Saxon audiences of Europe and America," he said.
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Yet framing this multigenerational and diverse group of artworks under the blanket term "Material Art" may confound more than it clarifies.
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Now, researchers in Singapore say they have trained one to perform another task known to confound humans: assembling furniture from Ikea.
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Two court hearings showed that wrangles over some key witnesses may confound Democratic efforts to get them on the record soon.
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Modern Russia has inflamed conflict in former Soviet republics to create "frozen zones," allowing it to influence events and confound its opponents.
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An amputee world record holder in both the 200 metres and the marathon, the breadth and juxtaposition of his achievements confound logic.
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If we harness it ethically and intelligently, it could unlock many of the mysteries that confound us in medicine, mechanics and engineering.
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Roxy Music never lost the vital parts of their character: an intense romanticism, a devotion to aesthetics, a willingness to confound expectation.
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Even if you think you're an expert at From Software's action titles, this one is designed to challenge, confound, and fool you.
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Experts say past failures and the virus's cagey nature have combined to confound both researchers and the drug companies who fund them.
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While his addition to Tresor's Kern series sits on the more accessible end of his output, his ability to confound looms large.
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On Mr Dugin's floor you file along endless half-decorated corridors that seem to confound geometry by turning left at every corner.
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In an interview he discussed his findings, which confound many preconceptions about Shariah, Chinese law and the rigidity of the Communist state.
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China's manufacturing activity accelerated more than expected in June, suggesting the world's second-largest economy continues to confound expectations for a slowdown.
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Congress finds out what's in the Mueller report, Thailand's military appears to have won elections and Brexit continues to confound a nation.
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It uses bright colours, high contrast, graded shading and asymmetric stylings to confound an algorithm's assumptions about what a face looks like.
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The study has been criticized for not controlling for other diseases, social economic status and other factors that might confound the results.
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In addition to flu, many respiratory infections, including fungal infections, can cause symptoms that could confound doctors and delay a vaping diagnosis.
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Women are often excluded from acne studies because acne can get worse during menstrual cycles, and this can confound results, Delost explained.
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We take a closer look at those games as well as a list of other pitchers who have managed to confound the Yankees.
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The formal ideas, wrangled from improvised splashes of pigment, confound abstract flatness with spatial illusion, simultaneously playing it straight and fooling the eye.
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That means seeking extra help from a financial advisor and/or your human resources department if the choices for your plan confound you.
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New York magazine has the scary story: The deluge will begin slowly, and irregularly, and so it will confound human perceptions of change.
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Creating a steady paycheck to cover all your needs after saving for years is one of the biggest dilemmas that confound retirees today.
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His approach to the economy is born of a mindset where deals have winners and losers and where canny negotiators confound abstract principles.
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"This is going to be a Navy unlike any navy in history, a human-machine collaborative battle fleet that will confound our enemies."
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Clady thus devoted no brainpower whatsoever to anticipating a feature of New Jersey living that would soon confront, and confound, him: the jughandle.
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We honor British exceptionalism, show national pride and confound the euroskeptic message when we put ourselves in the vanguard of charting Europe's future.
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On the flip side, founders say that a focus on women's health can confound male investors, who don't grasp the issue as intuitively.
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These attitudes confound the romantic image many in the West have of Buddhism as a tolerant faith whose adherents wouldn't hurt a fly.
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The central question isn't whether China might continue to confound norms so much as what, precisely, is required for it to do so.
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Its rise is a uniquely British story, and its celebrity would confound outsiders — but experts say companies worldwide can learn from Greggs' success.
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This list is nonexhaustive, and it's entirely possible that Sanders could confound expectations by making a pick out of left—or right—field.
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In addition to flu, many respiratory infections, including fungal infections, can cause symptoms that could confound doctors and delay a vaping injury diagnosis.
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In addition to flu, many respiratory infections, including fungal infections, can cause symptoms that could confound doctors and delay a vaping injury diagnosis.
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Women on antidepressants may have other medical and psychiatric problems and use other medications to control them, which may also confound the results.
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The British manufacturing sector continues to confound expectations of a post-Brexit slowdown, according to the latest data from IHS Markit, a research firm.
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Meanwhile, the beverages introduced after the price increase introduce a "confound" into the experiment: an element that disrupts and adds confusion to the results.
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He wondered if getting shot had addled him, or if his recent attempt to confound pain with pleasure had broken something in his brain.
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Even the untrained eye notice these challenges, and they confound my social faux pas as a failure to understand or share other people's expectations.
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The second pick cuts paper into nearly impossible-to-reassemble squares, creating a mess of confetti that should confound even the most committed crook.
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It's not that hard to see why Cats, an unabashed popular sensation in 1982, might confound and ironically amuse audiences nearly four decades later.
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"What the figures today show is that the UK economy continues to be resilient and continues to confound the skeptics," finance minister Philip Hammond said.
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In a real-world environment like a cockpit, a car or an airport, muscle activity and ambient electricity are likely to confound any neural signals.
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But Hong Kong's British-derived legal system could complicate, even confound, any Chinese attempt to directly impose laws against national security crimes, several experts said.
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Rather, her performance reflects the way the people we love can confound, even infuriate us while at their best as well as at their worst.
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But as his allies have pointed out, Mr. Walker has constructed his administration in a way that could now divide or confound the governor's enemies.
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"Ever since he was a child he has made it a habit to confound the imperial household," Time magazine said of the prince in 1955.
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The author is a chipper field guide and canny ethnographer, writing with refreshing honesty about the folkways of the Defense Department, which often confound outsiders.
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In economic news, China's manufacturing activity accelerated more than expected in June, suggesting the world's second-largest economy continued to confound expectations for a slowdown.
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Record: 4-7Last week: 28thWeek 12 result: Beat the Falcons, 35-22Week 13 opponent: at Jacksonville JaguarsOne thing to know: Jameis Winston continues to confound.
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Neutrois and gender nonconforming and demiboy and demigirl and pangender and genderqueer are among the array of closely related identities that could confound any demographer.
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And they find themselves at the center of an existence shaped by physical danger and policy shifts that confound even the most experienced immigration experts.
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But the president also relished the opportunity to confound critics who accused him of abandoning campaign promises to govern as a bipartisan, deal-cutting businessman.
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The death itself, to all appearances, is unambiguous, although, as any fan of murder mysteries will tell you, the purpose of appearances is to confound.
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With the help of a six-lens camera array and machine learning algorithms, it's able to grab and pack items that would confound other bots.
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It's these kinds of conflicting controls (multiply that by the number of regulating agencies) that confound state CIOs and state chief information security officers (CISO).
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The small number of images of JonBenét herself in the film will probably confound some Netflix viewers who watch it expecting to relive the case.
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That easing price pressure helped the PMI covering the euro zone's dominant services industry to confound expectations and nudge up to 55.0 from 54.9 in March.
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Ohayon, who has worked at Internet Lab and founded TechCrunch France and Appsfire, wanted to create an easy-to-use crypto wallet that wouldn't confound users.
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While the Nationalists have attacked Tsai and the DPP as a grave threat given the party's independence-leaning stand, some say she could confound her critics.
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Non-lethal weaponry could confound small craft prowling near-shore waters in, say, the Black Sea or Gulf of Aden — two expanses frequented by Russian ships.
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Death Stranding positively drips with Kojima's aesthetic, from its evocative not-quite-English terminology to its willingness to break the fourth wall and confound your expectations.
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There's a lesson in the familiar Greek proverb of Achilles - though strong and seemingly invulnerable, all things regardless of how great have weaknesses that may confound.
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FCA faces a U.S. criminal investigation for alleged emissions manipulation and German accusations that it, like VW, used "defeat devices" to confound nitrogen oxide (NOx) tests.
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The snap decision ultimately prompted the departure of his well-regarded Secretary of Defense, Jim Mattis, and continues to confound lawmakers and policy experts in Washington.
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The incredible subtlety of these images, which confound reproduction and require close looking, oblige one to bear eye witness, not only to violence, but to artistic virtuosity.
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DISPUTES that reach the Supreme Court tend to be hard cases—conflicts concerning government power or individual rights that confound and divide judges serving on lower courts.
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The current partisan alignment should effectively preclude a shutdown, but Trump's particular mix of incompetence, narcissism, and poor judgment is potent enough to confound basic game theory.
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To rally your supporters and confound your opponents by conjuring imaginary enemies is a method we have profitably employed for over a century, most recently in Ukraine.
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This is something that can still mysteriously confound me, and when I relate this to Petry and Drillot, they share their own stories of missed social cues.
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Its gears are so innumerable and dynamic — so susceptible to serendipity and mishap — that even a single outcome of its ceaseless ticking can confound science for centuries.
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It's always possible that the president will confound the naysayers and emerge from what he has called his "little squabble with China" with some big-picture successes.
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He specializes in eerie, glitchy, electronic instrumentals that confound ordinary electronica categories — "trance" doesn't really fit no matter how relaxing one might find the music; neither does "industrial" no matter how vividly the music evokes big metal objects and factory conveyor belts; "EDM" belongs to a different universe entirely — and, once you've bonded with said instrumentals (which can take a while), they confound ordinary habits of listening, too.
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This would seem to confound the question of whether the tribal payment or casino income made the difference in the children's lives, but Akee looked into this too.
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The Trump administration is engaged in a global juggling act involving so many strategically significant balls that it would confound the capabilities of the most skilled circus performer.
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Others are said to be sleeping in different places every night, to confound potential assassins or soldiers who they think might be sent to kill or arrest them.
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Its rotating roster of sub-units (in America, we might call them spin-offs or musical collectives, except that they're completely different) continues to shape-shift and confound.
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Republican members of the Intelligence Committee, led by Jim Jordan, of Ohio, and Devin Nunes, of California, made every attempt to confound voters with misdirection and conspiracy theories.
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As scholars and military professionals, we see Guadalcanal as teaching enduring lessons about the importance of integrating planning, training and technology to generate options that confound an adversary.
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These last songs, which the middle-aged Haas produced while grappling with the burdens of his past, feel explicitly designed to confound, to upset, even to invite scorn.
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A review that begins with "Whit Stillman's movies are like porn films with the sex scenes cut out" will entice a curious human and confound an aggregation machine.
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These findings in some ways seem to confound the results of the I.B.S. study, in which it was the low-COMT patients who benefited most from the placebo.
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More experienced chess players will find that 20 levels also leads to some absurdly difficult games, which will assuredly delight and confound your chess-playing friends and family.
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VW admitted in September 2015 to using defeat devices to confound nitrogen oxide (NOx) tests in the United States, prompting several European governments to launch their own investigations.
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Lomachenko even showed some of those "MMA angles" that McGregor used to confound Mayweather, landing a hammerfist to the back of Rigondeaux's head as he was doubled over.
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Older, married, white couples often share a common ancestry and similar genetic backgrounds, a fact that could confound genetic tests designed to detect hereditary diseases, a new study shows.
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But such a merger requires due diligence to make sure the herbs complement, rather than confound or harm, any modern treatment -- particularly with something as sensitive as cancer treatment.
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For most of the run, the bulls could rightly say "The pain trade was higher" — meaning continued strength would confound the majority, something the market often likes to do.
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Twenty years ago, a 6 call to the emergency dispatch center in Boulder, Colorado, launched a mystery that continues to perplex, confound and fascinate: What happened to JonBenét Ramsey?
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The first thing you'll notice (or won't) about the new Smart Lock is that it won't confound your friends or family members who haven't seen a smart lock before.
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Mr. Trump, who had little previous television experience, revealed a showman's mastery of the medium, which he used this year to confound political opponents and seduce ratings-hungry networks.
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Although the revolution lost its luster, what never diminished was Mr. Castro's ability to confound American officials and to create situations to seize the advantage of a particular moment.
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Sweetening his appeal has been a mellower edition of Lopez Obrador, who, in contrast to previous campaigns, has reveled in the chance to mock himself to confound his detractors.
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Investors in broader Asia took a cautious stance as they weighed whether U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell would confirm or confound expectations for U.S. policy easing this month.
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Trump could confound some of these assumptions, but we'll need to see polling data, campaign organizing and spending, candidate schedules, and campaign engagement before we can adjust the playing field.
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Those irritating homemade videos — for instance, of kids opening endless blind-bags and Shopkins — that other kids will watch for hours at a time confound parents with their mesmerizing power.
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The appointment will confound critics who say Venezuela desperately needs a loosening of state controls to revive production in a nation plagued by shortages and the world's highest inflation rate.
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There were always new compounds, or new ways to mask old ones; there was an entire underground industry of labs and chemists working to evade and confound Catlin's best efforts.
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During his time among the common folk, Jordan is not above employing his celebrity to confound Emily's judgmental peers or, in one instance, flaunting his wealth to prove his devotion.
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Harry is as dear a boy as anyone could hope for, and the characters who support, confound, and downright threaten his life at Hogwarts are lively, engaging, and utterly believable.
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Just as High Life's ship is commanded by an infanticidal mother-scientist, Denis's movies proliferate with characters who confound their own type: a grandfather turned rapist, a soldier turned dancer.
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My grandfather had an engineering degree from Drexel Tech, and at first he had found the work interesting, but he was a restless man, prone to confound tedium with rage.
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Over the past couple of years, it's slowly improved what its artificial agents can do, but their latest challenge is something that can confound even the smartest human: making small talk.
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Markets are bracing for Powell's comments, in two days of testimony before the U.S. Congress starting later on Wednesday, in which he may support or confound expectations for U.S. policy easing.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's giant Three Gorges project, the world's biggest hydropower plant in the middle reaches of the Yangtze river, continues to confound policymakers tackling its massive social and environmental impact.
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Results there have been so difficult to predict that the state has earned the nickname "Ulta Pradesh" - a play on the Hindi word meaning "reverse" - for its ability to confound experts.
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In his hands, the accordion seems like some magical music box, but inside it is a complex network of mechanical rods and reeds that can sometimes confound even a trained physicist.
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I'm not a journalist anymore, so I'm reduced to groaning at the TV when commentators don't help us understand what's going on, but instead confound our understanding by providing incorrect information.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S. shale oil producers are plotting ambitious production growth outside the red-hot Permian Basin in Texas, widening a resurgence that could confound OPEC's strategy to tighten global supplies.
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Hoping to hasten that process, Showtime is making the third and fourth episodes available online in advance of next week's airing to help crystallize elements that confound as much as they amaze.
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Barry Popkin, a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina, and one of the paper's authors, said that the wide variety of sugars is not always meant to confound consumers.
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Syndergaard's out-pitch of choice on this day was his slider, a pitch that travels faster than many pitchers' fastballs, in the low 90s, and has a bite that can confound hitters.
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As the hoofers trade turns in the spotlight, each yields songs from the ground, scraping and stroking and piercing the floor in ways that confound the eye and ear with their intricacy.
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The rest of the Democratic caucus voted "present," in an attempt to confound Mr. McConnell's strategy, which was to tie down the Democratic Party to an ambitious proposal from its progressive wing.
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He could now confound them even more by showing that he is ready to lead Australia, a country where the ravages of man-made climate change are most evident, in fighting back.
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The Pyeongchang cyberattack would turn out to be perhaps the most deceptive hacking operation in history, using the most sophisticated means ever seen to confound the forensic analysts searching for its culprit.
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The coming days will also be crucial for Republicans hoping to confound a difficult pattern of facts to show Trump did nothing more than exercise his vast authority to set foreign policy.
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The jury is still out, even as a bumper crop of energetic and engaging (usually first-time) leftist candidates — some winning, some losing — have emerged to further confound pundits and political operatives.
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Such an approach will embolden adversaries, confuse friends and confound the servicemen and servicewomen who depend on their president for clear, principled leadership, especially when they are putting their lives at risk.
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In the resulting paintings, echoing, repeating, and overlapping figures crouch, lean, sway, sit, and generally confound the viewer, mixing figuration and abstraction in ways that make us question what a body is.
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While the researchers did their best to statistically control for factors that may confound their results, like sex, age, race, and employment status, there were some things the paper can't tell us.
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To see through their eyes, we have to move them into positions that confound our satellite camera's vantage (leaning up against objects and maneuvering until our sight can clip through their bodies).
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" Glenn Thrush & Maggie Haberman in The NY Times: "But the president also relished the opportunity to confound critics who accused him of abandoning campaign promises to govern as a bipartisan, deal-cutting businessman.
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SHANGHAI, Nov 14 (Reuters) - China's giant Three Gorges project, the world's biggest hydropower plant in the middle reaches of the Yangtze river, continues to confound policymakers tackling its massive social and environmental impact.
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Yuval Elovici, who heads the cyber security research center at Israel's Ben Gurion University, said there is now an "arms race" between groups developing facial recognition algorithms and those looking to confound them.
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Hypersonics pose a different threat from ballistic missiles, according to those who have studied and worked on them, because they could be maneuvered in ways that confound existing methods of defense and detection.
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The Shortlist CLAIMING A BODY Stories By Amanda Marbais Each story in Marbais's sharp, glittering collection forms a complete and chaotic universe constellated by characters who shape, destroy, captivate and confound one another.
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He cannot pick up groceries much less his own poop (of which there are multiple a day, after which I give him big, deranged whoops of approval that'd confound my pre-pet self).
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Mr. Trump's penchant for picking fights is well established by now, but it continues to confound and exasperate foreign leaders who are not accustomed to such rough-and-tumble interactions with American presidents.
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The MPC, a tool for recording, mixing, and creating something new from found materials, evokes the process by which art can confound the course of events, not simply reflect or react to it.
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There's also little evidence that the flattery piled on Trump by other world leaders is especially effective in getting him to shed idiosyncratic and deeply held beliefs -- even those that confound facts and logic.
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The shock outcome saw the pound shed 2500 percent on fears the political turmoil could delay and confound talks on leaving the European Union, which are due to start in less than two weeks.
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And it's not like I was living a life like, I'll be fine from the eventual robot uprising: I'll just close the door on them, and that will confound them and their primitive hands.
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Accepting the Republican nomination in Cleveland, the billionaire twice pledged to be a "voice" for working Americans, restore law and order and to confound elites and doubters by winning the White House in November.
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Then there were the unaccounted for particles of brick, wheat, and mustard that worked their way into the chocolate during production in a way that would repulse modern consumers and confound modern labelling laws.
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The play may have been too easy prior to last season, but the rule change that pushed it back to being the equivalent of a 212-yard field goal continues to confound place-kickers.
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Their smudgy aesthetic will confound today's devotees of Marvel's digitally polished relaunches, too, while racist caricatures like the brown-skinned people and Haitian "voodoo" in 1952's "Drum of Doom" haven't aged well, either.
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One is that corporates have a trick or two up their sleeve to tackle wage pressures and another more popular view is that the inflation mystery continues to confound central bankers while rewarding investors.
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Tax reform is without a doubt the president's most sweeping accomplishment, and the electoral ripple effects from Americans who see more money in their paychecks will likely confound more than a few skeptical pundits.
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Thus, a jumbo jet flying at high altitude in a straight line, making no evasive maneuvers, managed to confound the Soviet air defense system and soar across the Kamchatka peninsula and back into international airspace.
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Some are purely descriptive: Remote imagingOf halite habitats inDry Atacama Some impart lessons: Counting craters isEasier when you use aSupercomputer Others ask questions both scientific… Deep within CeresMysteries still confound usIs it mud or ice?
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Hammond, announcing an annual budget shortly before Britain is due to launch its Brexit divorce process, said the world's fifth-biggest economy had so far "continued to confound the commentators" by withstanding the referendum shock.
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The attempts at humor also confound; there's a clear nod to the KKK scene from Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, where Waid and Jones spend a couple of panels with some Klansmen fussing about their costuming.
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"Until last year, scientists typically didn't use female mice in their research, because they thought the fluctuating levels of hormones would confound the results," explains biologist Kelly McKinnon, who helped develop the period-having chip.
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He added that the market had continued to confound expectations since the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and other producers agreed last year to cut output, as OPEC was no longer a lone heavyweight.
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Mahler's symphonic song cycle "Das Lied von der Erde," the highlight of the Saturday afternoon program, can seem a cruel joke intended to confound even strong and healthy voices, and the results aren't always pretty.
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Prosecutors say they are well aware of the efforts to confound their investigation, but remain confident that rising public indignation and the weight of evidence of various crimes will ensure those responsible are brought to justice.
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The miracle, as Prime Minister Scott Morrison described the victory, is the latest political event to confound media and forecasters, following the Brexit referendum and the 2016 U.S. election in catching markets on the wrong foot.
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Last month, as widespread concerns about the vitality of its core businesses appeared to confound the bank's leaders, Lloyd Blankfein, the longtime chief executive, suggested he was willing to step aside within the next two years.
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Judge Kavanaugh's right-wing supporters and left-wing opponents are equally keen to portray him as a guaranteed vote to overrule Roe and other liberal shibboleths, but hard cases often cause justices to confound ideological expectations.
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"For reasons that continue to confound me," former Harry Reid aide Jim Manley says, "both the president and [his top political adviser] Karl Rove concluded after the election that they had a mandate" on Social Security.
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" Testimonials like this confound critics who label conservative evangelical figures like Mr. Graham and Mr. Jeffress hypocrites for embracing a man who is pretty much the human embodiment of the question "What would Jesus not do?
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Judge produced a one-out single off a 1-2 changeup, a pitch that might be expected to confound a young player who, in his first big league stint, showed an alarming tendency to strike out.
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We've seen the Tel Aviv-based graphic artist and character designer animate cats with boxes and dancing DJs, but his cheeky rendering of Season 6 scenes like The Mountain's encounter with Septa Unella confound the imagination.
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At once, the black canvases confront and confound the Israeli flags and crisp white laundry that flutter from balconies overhead — one wonders what the response to this installation might be on the other side of the wall.
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I could argue that the broad plausibility of the idea the market has come too far, too fast is the biggest reason that the market could confound common logic and keep grinding higher with low-drama resolve.
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For us, unlike for its 19th-century audience, this hand-held card's utility is not as advertisement; more urgently, it serves as a graphic reminder: beware of all those who deliberately confound patriotic sentiment with exclusionary solutions.
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Investigators alleged that Frazee and Kenney further conspired to move Berreth's cell phone in the aftermath of her killing, to further delay and confound a search for her after Berreth's mother reported her daughter missing on Dec.
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She has developed the habit of saving her stories under the names of Paris metro stations, like Voltaire and Bonne Nouvelle — "the better to confound hotel-room spies or officers at border crossings" — hence the novel's title.
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Yang said the algorithm is "pretty sophisticated," and even incorporates some of the common situations that can confound these estimates, like kitchen closing times, or popular restaurants that have long a waitlist as soon as they open.
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"It used to really confound me and really upset me because we were part of a family of 'Sopranos' and nobody ever questioned the relationships of the men on that show," Parker told Howard Stern in 2016.
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From the evidence presented in Recharging the Image, the collection was assembled not as a series of teaching moments, but as works of art that can confound and challenge just as easily as they can enlighten and inspire.
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Lloyds, which is most exposed among the major British banks to any downturn in the economy, has continued to confound expectations that the economic upheaval caused by last year's vote to quit the European Union would squeeze profits.
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That plan, initially at least, would confound attempts by other chipmakers to buy a slice of a business that may provide an edge in the booming market for NAND flash memory chips used for long-term data storage.
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The tweets crystallized Trump's emerging midterm election message, which is designed to confound historic portents that first term presidents rarely get the same kind of turnout in the midterms as they enjoyed in their own euphoric election wins.
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Over the past month, Iran has issued conflicting statements saying it could add up to 1.5 million barrels per day over the next year which would confound market skepticism that its fields were damaged by years of sanctions.
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"Noise in the datastream coming out of the American economy continues to confound markets, obscuring positive fundamentals that might otherwise support monetary tightening expectations," said, Karl Schamotta, director, Global Product & Market Strategy, at Cambridge Global Payments in Toronto.
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The notion of affirmative consent did not fall from space in October 2017 to confound well-meaning but bumbling men; it was built, loudly and painstakingly and in public, at great personal cost to its proponents, over decades.
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He's a contrarian—projects like Communist Slow Jamz, Black Ben Carson, and the 2nd Amendment EP are a giveaway—and his rhymes are built to confront and confound the inanities and stupid brutalities of the internet's darker corners.
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Military diplomacy is a new means for Japan to confound China's bid for control in the bitterly contested South China Sea as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seeks a regional military role amid a retreat from decades of state pacifism.
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The great god Gun is now just one of a pantheon of deities—the great god Free Market, the great god Law and Order, the great god Patriotism—who demand their daily offerings and who confound the reasoning process.
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The first day of the draft involved several trades, a few shocking picks, N.F.L. commissioner Roger Goodell absorbing contact from a defensive tackle, above, and the Oakland Raiders and the New York Giants continuing to confound with their picks.
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Hence our own recourse to such clips in this review, but even there, the play of circular bulb-columns, rectangular fixture-canisters, reflection and shadow, and trompe l'oeil backdrops and sleeves painted the color of shadow, continues to confound.
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His selection started off a wild first day of the 2019 N.F.L. draft that involved several trades, a few shocking picks, Roger Goodell absorbing contact from a defensive tackle and the Oakland Raiders continuing to confound with their picks.
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Cruz's communications director, Alice Stewart, insists that the candidate will confound the pollsters throughout the region on Tuesday, noting that Cruz "was down in Iowa, and he still won"—thanks largely to his ground game and intensive campaigning in the state.
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If nothing else, Thursday's intrigue served as another reminder that questions over Trump's attitude toward Moscow and the Kremlin's apparent operation to sow discord in last year's election are issues that will return again and again to confound the White House.
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"A stellar end to 321.53 for the euro zone rounded off the best year for over a decade, continuing to confound widely held fears that rising political uncertainty would curb economic growth," Chris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit, said.
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The event, which is the first of several planned, came one day after DeVos told a Senate subcommittee hearing that the federal commission would not focus on the role that guns played in school violence, comments that appeared to confound lawmakers.
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The second rule of last year's Republican primary circus is one that Corker is now daring to confound -- namely that no one who gets down in the muck with a brutal political street-fighter like Trump comes out clean or unscathed.
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When I asked lead author Ryan Hledik what sorts of developments might confound Brattle's projections, he cited unexpectedly rapid growth of renewables in regions with limited transmission interconnections — that would substantially skew the market to favor energy and ancillary service benefits.
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Their shouts with each serve and stroke can be so loud that some players, including Martina Navratilova, have declared that the noise is a form of cheating, meant to confound the other player and not to increase the power of a stroke.
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But it's the nature of the Trump era to confound all expectations, so naturally what followed the Cohn-Tillerson-McMaster exits and the tariff announcements and the stock market wobbles was … the most politically successful six weeks of Trump's presidency to date.
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And on Tuesday, they used a barrage of parliamentary objections — sometimes angrily articulated — to try to correct Ms. Hochul, who was coached through her appearance on the rostrum by a nearby lawyer, and to confound Democratic attempts to again pass their bills.
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But on Wednesday, Mr. Trump named Ms. Haley as his choice for ambassador to the United Nations, a move that will probably serve to both assuage and confound the president-elect's critics, raising questions about the tone and direction of his foreign policy.
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"These analyses were adjusted for other individual characteristics that could 'confound' the nutrition-cancer association such as physical activity and BMI but also educational level, smoking status, alcohol use or family history of cancer," Deschasaux and Touvier wrote in an email to CNN.
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These senior security officials display a startling cluelessness about how things look outside the fishbowl of D.C., but their actions embolden regimes opposed to America's interests overseas, and here at home as foreign secret agents strive to confound Strzok's former colleagues in counterintelligence.
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An average provider-offered plan has quality ratings that are about one-third of a star higher for both, after adjusting for factors that could confound the comparison, like socioeconomic status and the types and number of doctors where plans are offered.
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Nearly a month has passed since Stephen Paddock opened fire on a country music festival at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, killing 58 people and wounding hundreds more — yet the shooting continues to confound the public and investigators alike.
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This agenda and the fact that Sanchez may use decrees to push through reforms before they are put to parliament could confound expectations that his government will be short-lived, said Pablo Simon, a political science professor at Madrid's Carlos III university.
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Strong gravitational lensing exampleImage: ESA/Hubble & NASA derivative work: (Wikimedia Commons)We know that the universe is expanding, but a strange discrepancy in just how fast that expansion is occurring continues to confound physicists—and make them wonder whether there's some new, unexplained physics afoot.
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The Trump phenomenon will go down in the history books one way or the other: He will either secure the nomination and confound party insiders who usually get the nominee they want, or his massive lead will evaporate and lead to a spectacular fall.
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Efforts by Prepa to fix lines and restore power after Irma will almost certainly have been undone by Maria, and the question of how a debt-ridden commonwealth will pay for comprehensive repairs is sure to confound its leaders long after the storm dissipates.
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Yet now, with no serious peace talks underway, President Trump is reportedly planning to grant the Israelis' wish and confound the Palestinians by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital and moving the American Embassy there from Tel Aviv, thereby tossing aside decades of American diplomacy. Why?
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And Tesla's challenges are a microcosm of the trade issues that confound so many American manufacturers: To sell its cars in China, Tesla faces tariffs and other disincentives that make its vehicles 40 percent more expensive than locally produced electric cars, according to Mr. Musk.
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I opposed Brexit on economic and political grounds yet, at the same time, Johnson might have the political flexibility, the intellectual chops and the Churchillian ambition to confound his critics along the five lines of action he must simultaneously pursue to find his historic place.
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She is aiming to become the first German woman since Steffi Graf 20 years ago to lift the Wimbledon singles crown, and to confound Serena's efforts to equal Graf's professional era record of 22 grand slam singles titles for the second time this year.
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The timing makes sense: As Israel has transformed itself from a small, struggling society into a high-tech player on the global stage, its people have become increasingly interested in the ideals that first guided it and the roots of problems that still confound it.
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"A stellar end to 2017 for the euro zone rounded off the best year for over a decade, continuing to confound widely held fears that rising political uncertainty would curb economic growth," Chris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit, said in a release.
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But that will only postpone a looming confrontation with fiscal reality, which will dash Brexiter hopes and confound European fears of Britain turning into a low-tax competitor outside the EU. Instead the British state will turn more European with higher levels of tax and spending.
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MEXICO CITY, July 31 (Reuters) - Mexico will on Wednesday learn whether the country slipped into recession during the first half of 2019, in what would be a major blow to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's pledge to lift growth and confound critics of his economic policies.
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To wit: The Great Communicator is in no danger of having to forfeit his well-deserved moniker anytime soon to Trump, whose trademark word salads manage to convey even less and confound even more when committed to paper than they do when tossed together on the stump.
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In an email, Yascha Mounk, a lecturer in government at Harvard, wrote: One of the dangers for the Democratic Party — and the left-leaning parts of the establishment more broadly — is that they confound their actual audience with a small but highly visible group of activists.
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Although this annual series emphasizes fresh voices and boundary pushing — with movies that confound distinctions between fiction and documentary, for instance, or between theater and cinema — it opens with "After the Storm," the latest domestic drama from the practiced Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda ("Our Little Sister").
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With one more week's worth of regular-season games plus the conference championships, there is still plenty more that could happen in the College Football Playoff rankings, and more still that the 12-member selection committee could do to confound, elate and enrage college football fans.
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Usually, most of the uncertainty about whether polling support will translate into vote totals is located on the Democratic side, whose base includes lots of lower-propensity voters who don't always come out to the polls (or who confound pollsters' expectations by showing up in higher numbers than expected).
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"I think this after-market performance that you're seeing from Micron will confound people, and has confounded people that with negative prints, a lot of these stocks have continued to go up," Manish Nigam, Asia-Pacific head of technology research at Credit Suisse, told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Thursday.
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In any case, the decision appeared to confound even leaders of the British government … Trump's announcement led to panic at various European airports on Thursday morning, as American travelers in Europe scrambled to change their tickets onto U.S. bound flights at the last minute, often at premium prices.
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Andrew Wiggins will continue to confound the game's number-crunchers, and the desire to make the team a retirement home for all of Thibodeau's old players from Chicago — bringing back Derrick Rose is a bad move, but their rumored interest in Joakim Noah is far worse — has been overindulged.
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That in itself is reason to hope that new opening in the long-running confrontation of North and South Korea so dramatically staged at Panmunjom does confound expectations and lead to real and fruitful negotiations, not just between the two Koreas but also between the United States and North Korea.
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The five boys, for starters, have a new girl, Max (Sadie Sink), to trigger their curiosity and confound them, albeit without quite the impact as the telekinetically gifted Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), whose return has already been teased, and whose plot is easily the best thing about this second flight.
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Heisenberg attributes the first remarking of this remark, quite correctly, to Niels Bohr (''who loved paradoxical formulations'') — for, although this might have been another of those many instances of simultaneous discovery by independent researchers which confound lay thinkers, but at which casehardened science historians merely shrug, it is, alas, not.
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Because it reduces price and increases volume, it suggests that if Uber ultimately succeeds, the company could have a much bigger impact on urban mobility, labor, the environment, local economies and the national transportation infrastructure than we've all supposed — and its effects could confound the expectations of its harshest critics.
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Drawing on the creeping thunder of Goblin soundtracks, the minimal bluster of John Carpenter's film work, and the primary color dancefloor gems that line the hallowed halls of italo disco, Sweatt's used a string of singles and LPs for outre labels like Not Not Fun to both terrify and confound.
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My own personal favorite for national security advisor is probably Brent Scowcroft, counselor to President Ford and then of course President George H.W. Bush, who combined elements of the first three models (though certainly not the last) in ways that confound my attempts to categorize him anywhere on this spectrum.
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If the manifest motivation for the exercise from the beginning was a strong suspicion that England's class distinctions remained insuperable, there was an equally important if latent hope that the broadening out of the middle-class emphasis on education, abstemiousness, modesty and discipline might confound the base perpetuation of class difference.
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"Throwing our weight behind a protest movement may result in short-term gain, but it will more so contribute to the increased politicization of our work and further confound the public understanding of scientific rigor," said Daniel Sharoh, an American working on a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience in the Netherlands.
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If he wants to confound his critics, and earn a place in the history books rather than just the headlines, he needs to play for bigger stakes: reviving a great institution that has been needlessly traduced and giving it the space to build a new foreign policy from the rubble of Brexit.
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New York Times columnist Farhad Manjoo recently posited that if UberPool (and assumedly Lyft Line) is successful, "the company could have a much bigger impact on urban mobility, labor, the environment, local economies and the national transportation infrastructure than we've all supposed — and its effects could confound the expectations of its harshest critics."
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From the shock of Brexit through the rise of Donald Trump (and I would go further back and include Pope Benedict's resignation and Pope Francis's ascent), events have seemed scripted to confound the experts, and whatever stars have needed to align for crazy things to happen have moved smartly into the required position.
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The scene in which Chan, who did all of his own stunts, employs the handle of an umbrella to hang on to a moving bus is easier to describe than the gyrations he uses to confound six bad guys armed with clubs or ride a large shopping mall chandelier down to the ground.
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No matter where one stands in terms of faith, Jesus — be he God or man or, in the view of the church, both — was perhaps the most important figure who ever drew breath, and he will fascinate, enthrall and confound us to the end of time — and, if believers have it right, even beyond.
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Their refusal to take the MPAA's guidelines seriously ultimately served to confound the censors so much that the film actually became dirtier than it had begun: asked to remove the word "hell" from the film's title (South Park: All Hell Breaks Loose), Stone and Parker offered the far filthier one that it goes by today.
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THESE DISHES CONFOUND Western notions of what Japanese food should be, in part because diners who haven't grown up eating the cuisine often encounter it in the limited binary framework of high and low: austere sushi bars where the tab starts at three figures versus quick-turnover ramen shops, with few options in between.
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" The exhibition was not, as I noted in my review, a "series of teaching moments," but a selection of enigmatic and sometimes troubling imagery — ambitious works by major artists (Carrie Mae Weems, Romare Bearden, Robert Colescott, Whitfield Lovell, among others) "that can confound and challenge just as easily as they can enlighten and inspire.
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Back then, bouts of sickness were fairly common: We were only running at an update rate of 30 frames per second (compared to 90 now) and the latency—the lag between head and body movements in the VR world compared to the real world—was very high, producing a disconcerting gap that can confound the senses.
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The statistics do little to suggest otherwise; among the deported were 34 nationalities, about half of whom were Mexican or Eastern European, and about 90 percent of whom were born outside the US. Listening to people struggle to articulate the rationale surfaces how language and myth confound and obfuscate whatever it is we might call the "truth" of history.
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It also underscored a set of challenges unique to India: Its dozens of languages confound screening software and human moderators, many of the falsehoods come directly from political candidates and parties, and much of the fake news is spread on WhatsApp, Facebook's popular encrypted messaging app that provides little visibility into content that is being shared.
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It's a mystery that will continue to confound the team as they try to work their way back into the playoff race in the next few weeks, but it shouldn't be something to worry about against the Cardinals (2-9), a team that's biggest accomplishment of the season is only losing to Kansas City by 12.
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In the United Kingdom, the opposition leadership tried for years to delay, confound and complicate the Brexit decision that the British people voted for, all in the hope that voters would become so disgusted with the whole ordeal that they'd just abandon it along with the Conservative Party, whose leaders encouraged Brexit in the first place.
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When: September 13–November 1 Where: Kohn Gallery (1227 N Highland Ave, Hollywood, Los Angeles) Drawing inspiration from literature, philosophy, history, and science, the work of artist Enrique Martínez Celaya might seem like it requires erudite knowledge of these fields to understand it, but understanding is less important than allowing his images to confound and push against the impulse to make meaning.
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Cooperstein: Anything you see, if you look out five years hence — now given your roles obviously across all the lines of business inside Sony Entertainment, but also now with Snapchat and all these other disruptive technologies — is there something you foresee that infrastructure you need to be a part of to anticipate where new monetization and new virtual reality — How technology and consumers and creators interact continues to confound and surprise me.
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We would argue that the biggest problem is the difficulty in applying a methodology developed in medicine, where test subjects share the same genetic blueprint and new treatments are developed at the molecular level, to the social sciences, where our models are nowhere close to the precision of theories in the natural sciences and where there are many unobserved and unobservable differences between human beings that can confound the best designed RCT.
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On state visits, which are scheduled to the minute around the dictums of protocol and bilateral priorities, for example, one of my aims is to confound the often gendered expectations of what "the wife" should do: During what is usually called the "spouse program," I deliver speeches that I write myself, or I participate in panels about issues in which Iceland can showcase its strengths — sustainable tourism, entrepreneurship and innovation, and yes, gender equality.
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Check out stories from Monday and the weekend... -GAO: Ethanol mandate unlikely to hit climate target -Reid to Trump: Reroute Dakota pipeline -Flint mayor pushes Congress for emergency aid deal -Supreme Court asks DOJ to weigh in on mine spill lawsuit -Government won't forcibly remove Dakota pipeline protesters -Green groups urge Obama to act before Trump takes office -ND senators tell pipeline protesters to vacate camp -Trump's new Paris comments confound greens -Army Corps to close Dakota pipeline protesters' camp -Dem senator urges Justice Dept.
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He was wearing shorts and flip-flops; he has a soft handshake and an easy, teasing manner that he knows will likely confound people who expect the sustained contentiousness that he employs online and on TV. (On cable news shows, Greenwald draws his lower lip over his bottom teeth, blinks slowly, and seems able to state his position on the Espionage Act of 1917 while inhaling.) Greenwald, though untroubled about being thought relentless, told me that he was "actually trying to become less acerbic, less gratuitously combative" in public debates.
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