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"cross purposes" Definitions
  1. if two people are at cross purposes, they do not understand each other because they are talking about or aiming at different things, without realizing it

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Whole divisions of Facebook will now be working at cross purposes.
The dialogue continues, at cross-purposes, just as it has for decades.
Goolsbee also noted that Trump's apparent policies may work at cross-purposes.
Seen from that perspective VR and AR are effectively at cross purposes.
To a large extent, these two regulatory efforts work at cross purposes.
Jaitley opposes this, fearing tax collectors could end up at cross purposes.
Parts of the government are working at cross-purposes to each other.
But that money is working at cross-purposes in a competitive primary.
We're all people with something to hide, wary, suspicious, working at cross purposes.
For Iraq, sectarian divisions and the battle against extremism work at cross purposes.
Does this put you at cross purposes with them, or do you feel like ...?
There has also been a tendency for government departments to work at cross-purposes.
"Those two are meant to work together and not at cross purposes," she said.
Mr. Kelly needs to work with us on this goal, not at cross purposes.
Trump administration officials appear at cross purposes over the basic strategic -- or was it tactical?
"Ultimately, this kind of deal cannot be sustained if both sides are at cross-purposes."
Now, two close allies are at cross purposes about the very future of the internet.
The tableau of Mr. Trump working at cross purposes with his populist allies was awkward.
As a result, they've been working at cross-purposes during much of the legal wrangling.
The big picture: Two of the Trump administration's major policy goals seem at cross purposes.
My usual line is that people are far too much at cross purposes with each other.
In response to such uncertainty and cross-purposes, artists formed community advocacy groups and cooperative galleries.
Yet sometimes Trump's incompetence and malevolence are not at cross-purposes; instead, there's a multiplier effect.
It's a perfect example of the cross purposes at which business, technology, and safety often find themselves.
But too often, his visuals and his themes work at cross purposes, resulting in deeply confused films.
The Trump administration's patchwork approach to policy has proven time and again to run at cross-purposes.
GOP leaders are working to manage expectations on tax reform — though they sometimes seem at cross-purposes.
In Belgium, the divided nature of the government and its population means institutions often work at cross-purposes.
According to Health Ministry officials, Indonesia's fragmented government ministries often work at cross purposes when tackling the issue.
If "law and order" includes a ramping up of incarceration, those two goals could work at cross-purposes.
And it is possible for different bureaucracies within one country to work at cross purposes, rights watchdogs said.
The two stores within a store had an easy coexistence, even if they were at cross purposes aesthetically.
Individual European countries, at the same time, pursued their own, divergent interests in Libya, often at cross-purposes.
Bodies are so weird, and reliance on bodies is almost at cross-purposes to where we are technologically speaking.
Why are we undertaking a deal with an untrustworthy regime with interests totally at cross-purposes to our own?
"I see no indication of Bob Mueller being at cross purposes with anything at the Justice Department," Starr said.
Russians were taken by surprise by the new sanctions that showed America working at cross-purposes with its president.
In "Wozzeck," his agenda is too often at cross-purposes with that of Berg, for whom psychology was everything.
The electronics become animated with pulsing figures that seem at rhythmic cross-purposes with the increasingly dense, grainy guitars.
When donors and party leaders have different agendas and work at cross purposes, this weakens the party as a whole.
Ending it slightly early could defuse criticism that balance sheet policy is working at cross purposes with interest rate policy.
Many Fed policymakers are leery of having two policy tools — interest rates and balance sheet size — working at cross-purposes.
Instead, confusion reigned, groups and individuals worked at cross-purposes, donors sat on the sidelines and politicians hedged their bets.
We parted in full disagreement — the hoary cliche of a gay man and a lesbian at cross purposes, once more.
In other words, fiscal policy (which Congress controls) and monetary policy (which the Fed controls) are working at cross-purposes.
But Robinson's take on Calvin and the Puritans who were his heirs is at cross-purposes with the popular imagination.
The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.
In fact, their incentives are often at cross-purposes with the party and their actions are counterproductive to conservative policy change.
People of different ages have diverse priorities and goals, and if not managed effectively, they might begin working at cross purposes.
In a series of tweets, Wright argued that the trip shows how America and its European allies are at cross-purposes.
In a dialogue scene that becomes increasingly fraught, Phèdre and Hippolyte talk at cross purposes as she hopes for his love.
How is it possible such unapologetically conservative ideas—expanding HSA use and preventing taxpayer funding of abortions—arrive at cross-purposes?
The two of them might seem to be working at cross-purposes, but really they're both after the same thing: the truth.
More importantly, the film was at cross purposes with de Blasio's own politics, since it targeted business leaders who supported the mayor.
I took two dedicated experts to a radio station, where they and the radio host talked at cross purposes throughout the interview.
His new Pepsi connection raised the question: Would Mr. Walker's day job and his new board duties be working at cross-purposes?
Trump's seesaw: Donald Trump's desire to cut taxes and regulation works at cross purposes with his desire to see a weaker dollar.
When she sings, it's potent and unsteady, and captures the anxiety of miscommunication — or rather, communicating at cross purposes — in tidy fashion.
Without proper coordination, agencies sometimes find themselves working at cross purposes, not only to each other but to the president's overall goals.
Jaitley doesn't favor dual agencies auditing and scrutinizing each taxpayer as he reckons multiple authorities could end up acting at cross-purposes.
Bringing them all into one agency could be a way to use them most effectively and avoid them working at cross-purposes.
In time he became dissatisfied with the heaviness of traditional canvas supports, which seemed at cross purposes with the lightness of his color.
Trump is likely to find his agencies are measuring progress within their silos, and that such efforts may be operating at cross-purposes.
But policymakers and experts on the right have argued that efforts to protect consumer privacy and bolster competition may work at cross purposes.
Some scholars have suggested that its functions can be divided into "anti-discrimination" and "integration," with the two goals working at cross purposes.
Prosecutors are targeting anti-corruption activists; the army, interior-ministry troops and private militias work at cross-purposes, answering to different politicians or oligarchs.
All of the above leaves Westworld sometimes working at cross-purposes, trying ably to tell a story and subvert it at the same time.
The very genre in some ways works at cross-purposes with the historian's goal of shedding light on a given individual's, or period's, uniqueness.
But is that because she thinks these individuals are deliberately working at cross-purposes with the economic interests of the nation as a whole?
The AAA is not at cross-purposes with American values of freedom of speech and expression, and it does not violate the First Amendment.
Silicon Valley has gone out on a lot of these social issues and it's one after the next that they seem at cross purposes.
Under the constant watch of the Chinese government, they are at cross-purposes with their overseers, who abruptly object to the narrative in the script.
But while the events of Season 2 left the core characters at cross purposes, one thing they share is a desire to reboot their circumstances.
To others, Mr. Giuliani was working at cross-purposes with official policy channels toward Ukraine even as he was working on behalf of President Trump.
In trying to swap out an Asian character for a Caucasian one, the casting choice is at cross purposes with its own characterization of villainy.
The Fed, divided by a 7-3 vote, with the minority wanting a 25-basis-point hike now, appeared to be at cross purposes with itself.
Untethered and uncoordinated, his Cabinet secretaries ended up working at cross-purposes and getting into territorial fights as they guessed at how to do their jobs.
"We don't want the balance sheet to be working at cross purposes with our interest rate policy," Daly told the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
With ties going back centuries, the interests of locals in Yunnan often run at cross-purposes with the desires of the central government in faraway Beijing.
Making the corporations, not the school district, the enemy allowed them to make an offer to the district to work together, rather than at cross purposes.
But this break could prove to be real, putting Mr. Trump and his Republican allies at cross-purposes at an inauspicious moment on the political calendar.
Until Thursday, she had proved adept at navigating the complexities of a caucus rived by powerful progressive and moderate factions that often work at cross purposes.
This, at first glance, is tennis at its most dysfunctional, which is quite an achievement considering all the discord and cross purposes in the sport's past.
But the Pentagon's proposed drawdown in West Africa also runs at cross-purposes with a new State Department initiative to combat a resurgent Islamic State there.
In such bristling works as "'The 1-2′ (Scattershot)" (2017), thin rods, longer slats, and truncated arcs imply intersecting lines of force — human effort at cross-purposes?
For a while Mr. Blade worked at cross purposes: as a bridge-builder, eagerly striving to reconcile these differences, and as a one-man polyrhythmic demolitions team.
Rather than working at cross-purposes with TfL, ViaVan—a joint-venture between Via and Mercedes–Benz Vans—seeks to act as a complement to public transport.
In "Oh, Happy We," the charming duet in which Candide and Cunegonde finally admit their longing for each other, the joyous couple seem utterly at cross purposes.
These efforts pulled in hundreds of millions of dollars from regional partners, and people up and down the food chain cooperated so they weren't working at cross-purposes.
Sometimes these products can be used in concert, but sometimes you have to choose one approach or the other, as using both will put you at cross-purposes.
He managed to reconcile Schumann's extremes, especially in the teeming finale, in which the music's fixation on dotted-note rhythms seems at cross purposes with its dancing energy.
Even as the Trump administration prepares for an Iranian response, US allies continue to work at cross-purposes in the absence of American leadership or even basic guidance.
It also often works at cross purposes with private capital, and some of these policies can ultimately disincentivize growing a company beyond the government definitions of a small business.
Some, for instance, have said they would not want the balance sheet policies, which might tighten financial conditions, to work at cross-purposes with the more cautious rate policy.
"It obviously acts at complete cross purposes to Good Samaritan legislation, in both spirit and letter," argues Leo Beletsky, associate professor of law and health science at Northeastern University.
That's thanks in large part to the vastly greater availability of contraception — another reminder that cultural conservatives often advocate positions that are at cross-purposes with their stated intentions.
And pipes course every which way, binding the entire piece in a web of compounding cross-purposes (fracked oil, water diverted toward the privileged and away from everyone else).
Worse, complex financial regulations often have unintended consequences when individual regulations work at cross-purposes, while bank managements try to game the regulations to purse specific business strategies and profit objectives.
To work at cross-purposes with the Trump administration, Kerry has enlisted not only the help of the Iranians, but some of our crucial allies in the nuclear deal as well.
But local leaders also made some smart decisions like merging the city and county government in the 1960s, allowing Nashville and its suburbs to work together rather than at cross-purposes.
The effort to set an optimistic tone on the markets was clearly at cross-purposes with what public health officials see as necessary to minimize the damage from a potential pandemic.
The fact that sometimes the various intelligence agencies often operate at cross-purposes or duplicate the others' efforts has been one of the few pieces of good news for the West.
"People often think, 'Other countries do it better, so that must imply their systems are more coherent and clean and effective, that they have fewer programs working at cross-purposes," Kenworthy says.
Congress's refusal to adequately stimulate the economy by borrowing and spending while rates are low has worked at cross purposes with the Fed's efforts and done much to hold back a recovery.
But we can't have people working at cross purposes, and that's one of the things that has to be fixed and is being fixed and is fixed, in fact, at this point.
Mr. Millstein said he envisioned 22015 different lawsuits by creditors of the 215 different branches of government, all moving at cross purposes through the courts and getting conflicting rulings by their respective judges.
At nearly every step in this process then, institutions, government, and interest groups are working – sometimes at cross purposes – to shape what the law will be and how it will impact your startup.
But Erdogan and Putin were able to deescalate the situation, and they subsequently arrived at an understanding for operating discretely—and often at cross-purposes—in Syria, while avoiding any more direct confrontations.
He is not working at cross purposes with the Democratic Party; he has in fact campaigned for the party's candidates at its request and in fulfillment of his role as the party's outreach chair.
Though there are several government agencies working on various aspects of the effort to investigate and prosecute the looting of public funds, observers say the institutions are weak and sometimes work at cross-purposes.
These duplicative programs often work at cross purposes, are administered by a variety of agencies with different rules and criteria and squander resources that could be used to better the lives of all Americans.
Unlike Kanye West's The Life of Pablo, which located the artist's humanity in his dueling quests for salvation and the pleasures of the flesh, This Unruly Mess struggles to make its cross purposes pop.
Mr. Trump, who has pinned his re-election hopes on economic growth, has blamed Mr. Powell for working at cross-purposes with his policies, including his $1.5 trillion tax cut and increased government spending.
He can lay down an elegant line when he wants to, but he favors an authenticating roughness to a consoling smoothness; when euphony and precision are at cross-purposes in his writing, euphony yields.
Since Bretton Woods, the dollar has played two roles that sometimes end up at cross-purposes: It is the domestic money for the U.S. and the international unit of account for the globalized economy.
By the same token, the imposition of any tax works at cross purposes with these programs, for its likely effect, at least at the margin, is to reduce the money available for funding research.
The leaders of tennis's multiple governing bodies — often at cross purposes through the years — have been meeting at Melbourne Park, the site of the Australian Open, which has been overshadowed by reports of match fixing.
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said on Wednesday policymakers will stop shrinking the portfolio later this year, ending a process that investors say works at cross-purposes with the Fed's current pause on interest-rate hikes.
For months, Mr. Cuomo has worked at cross-purposes with Andy Byford, the well-respected transit chief he hired in 2017 to oversee an ambitious $40 billion renovation program for the ailing Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
But regardless of whether you condone or condemn these officials for working at cross-purposes with the president, it is important to understand that we are not talking about the so-called "deep state" here.
For now, Medellín has descended into a free-for-all where the bad guys are either in collaboration or at cross purposes with the good guys and the cycle of violence spins like a carnival wheel.
There's a good reason so many of the show's most memorable episodes (and a good portion of its series finale) involve those five characters trapped in a car, driving somewhere, together but constantly at cross-purposes.
Now, the central trio of Elliot, Darlene, and Angela are all working at cross-purposes, or sometimes working together (depending on which persona Elliot slips into), while Mr. Robot haunts the proceedings like a carnival ghoul.
The nascent trade war may create a layer of uncertainty for businesses that have major customer bases overseas as they weigh big-ticket investments, working at cross-purposes with the stated goal of the tax legislation.
It's not unusual for a White House to work at cross-purposes with a hostile Congress, as we saw most recently in the Mueller probe, but to flatly ignore its requests in this way seems, well, different.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told Congress the central bank would stop shrinking its $4 trillion balance sheet this year, ending a process investors say is at cross-purposes with its current pause on interest rate hikes.
It is at least possible that WWZ could work in synergy with the youth movement, spreading the climate message among audiences the left can't or won't reach, without stepping on any toes or working at cross purposes.
Told of Ms. Mercer's role on the museum board, several scientists and environmental organizations said that she should resign or be removed from her position because, they said, she was working at cross purposes with its mission.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told Congress the central bank would stop shrinking its $4 trillion balance sheet this year, ending a process investors say is at cross-purposes with its current pause on interest rate hikes.
Steven Soderbergh on making an app that tells a story: I was initially reticent—as a filmmaker/storyteller, anything that feels game-y is a little scary because games and being told a story work at cross-purposes.
The rest of "Nuestra Finca" struggles with uncharacteristic murkiness in the storytelling, as it tries to sort through the D.E.A. and the C.I.A. working at cross purposes and what that implies for the future of Colombia after Escobar.
Fed officials have said they wouldn't want their process of reducing their holdings to work at cross-purposes with interest rates: While lowering borrowing costs should stimulate growth, reducing the balance sheet could curb it, at the margin.
" • "Back then, central banks cut rates, bought up bonds, extended government backing to financial products, lent money to banks and in some cases coordinated with government authorities to make sure their rescue packages didn't work at cross-purposes.
Lall said there would still be work done out of the United States even if production of the F-16 moves to India and that Make in India and Trump's Make America Great Again were not at cross purposes.
The way Detroit structures Conner's motivations at cross-purposes with the rest of the cast (he's a cop, everyone else is basically a criminal) also manages to create some fascinating dilemmas that challenge and enrich the interactive fiction formula.
The close-up of Philip's face that closes that scene feels like a moment of resolution and recognition that they are no longer a unit but two individuals increasingly working at cross-purposes, in both the political and personal realms.
Most problematically, Kalanick and Uber's major investor Benchmark have been embroiled in an increasingly ugly public legal battle, initiated by the Silicon Valley venture firm, which has put the other board members in the crossfire and often at cross-purposes.
Like many cartoonists of a nonpolitical stripe, he was something of a sociologist — a student of habits and trends, memes and fashions, the purposes and cross-purposes of human interaction, most of which he exploited for gentle ridicule or defiant amusement.
In the lead-up to trial, Lee argued that his attorneys had a conflict of interest, because they had been appointed to defend him in other cases and might need to use defense strategies that would work at cross purposes.
San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly said Thursday that the Fed's balance sheet policy should not work at "cross purposes" with interest rate policy, now on hold as the Fed assesses whether the economy is strong enough to withstand further tightening.
A good sentence and a good thriller exist at cross purposes — the sentence making us pause to think or notice, the thriller dissolving our awareness of anything but its narrative, the genre that most wants to make us forget we're reading.
Some of Mr. Bloomberg's policies as mayor of New York, such as support for stop-and-frisk policing and opposition to Wall Street regulations, are at cross-purposes with progressives in his party, who have a large influence in Iowa.
But even the initial steps of Europe's effort to devise a separate strategy and save the nuclear accord with Iran showed that the allies might now be working at cross-purposes with the United States, further straining years of international consensus.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve will stop shrinking its $4 trillion balance sheet later this year, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said on Wednesday, ending a process that investors say works at cross-purposes with the Fed's current pause on interest-rate hikes.
Again, the master variable for me is honesty, and any incentive structure that I create or get entangled in, that seems to be working at cross purposes with that, I want to figure out how to get out of, if I can.
It was that, despite the fact that he looked like a middle school kid's drawing of A Great Big Professional Football Player, Tebow's body was transparently and almost poignantly at cross purposes with itself every time he tried to throw the ball.
But that art is conceived as essentially a form of self-indulgence ("delight in one's own person") is a problem — if only because it puts the writer's art of self-indulgence at cross-purposes with any attempt to focus attention on the painter's.
This is a story that could tell us how a trial can come to be about everything but the facts at hand, and how the struggle for the soul of a city can be at cross purposes with the fight to convict a murderer.
Several of you have crossed swords with him or found yourselves on the receiving ends of his famous temper or or were at a cross purposes to him on nearly everything are right at this moment doing your best to stay stone faced. Don't.
The United States has been working at cross-purposes in the region for some time, getting as much as it can out of Saudi Arabia, even as the Sunni radicalism supported by the House of Saud wreaks havoc across the region and in Europe.
When Hester's son, Monster (the outstanding and sexy Brandon Victor Dixon), finally reappears at their home, mother and son speak at cross-purposes, which kills, at least temporarily, the thing they've both been searching for: a body to love that will love them in return.
To be sure, Russia's involvement in Libya pales in comparison to that in Syria, where punishing Russian airpower has been deployed to crush rebel factions fighting to oust Mr. Assad, and Russian and American aircraft are jousting in the eastern skies at cross purposes.
It has also stood by as Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the UAE have worked at cross-purposes in countries like Syria and Libya, rather than trying to create a common position that would increase US influence and bargaining power in conflict with Iran.
They are at cross-purposes with the latest actions on Syria, where the administration is trying to cobble together a coalition before it unleashes a strike against President Bashar al-Assad for his suspected use of chemical weapons in a Damascus suburb last week.
One Facebook employee, who asked not to be identified discussing private information, said its shortcomings have not always been the result of having too few people dedicated to human rights, but at times having so many people involved that they're working at cross-purposes.
Speak Out, which seemed organized to give voice to those who have been marginalized and stand to be more mistreated under the current administration, seems to operate at cross purposes when it associated the exclusivity of Whitney membership with privileged entry to this event.
NOAA's scientific research is also central to the United States' ability to understand climate change — a role that requires the agency to conduct independent research, but puts it at cross purposes with a White House that has repeatedly expressed skepticism of the established science of global warming.
That's a separate question from what the committee clarified in our last statement, which is the balance sheet will always be consistent with our dual mandate goals, with the policy rate being the active policy instrument, but we wouldn't want those two instruments to be work at cross-purposes.
He acknowledged that the carmaker has to think about what its brand means in the EV space, since signature Maserati trademarks like the sound of the engine and the lightness of the cars run at cross-purposes to EVs with whisper quiet motors and battery-laden heavy chassis.
This knockout, two-venue show — D'Alvia's first solo outing in New York since 13 — demonstrates the absurdist humor, masterful craftsmanship, and elliptical thinking of an artist for whom working at apparent cross-purposes is an end in itself: embracing irresolution, the banalities of existence combine to form imponderable conundrums.
"There would be these tea sessions, where you've got the Iraqi federal police in their blue uniforms, you've got Iraqi Army in, like, the old chocolate-chip camouflage and the Americans in our smeared green digital camouflage," Manning said — everyone speaking in different languages, frequently at cross-purposes.
Several of you out there in the pews who crossed swords with him, or found yourselves on the receiving end of his famous temper, or were at a cross purposes to him on nearly anything, or right at this moment doing your best to stay stone-faced, don't.
Rather than strengthening our voice in the face of Russian propaganda, ISIS's insidious global outreach, and China's massive censorship efforts, HR2323 will instead result in a confused whisper as competing organizations fight over smaller budgets and work at cross-purposes, confusing our audiences and allowing our opponents' lies to go unchallenged.
Public lands in the West are a patchwork of lands controlled by different federal agencies — the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service and others — who often work at cross-purposes and have different approaches to land management and where public access and use is not necessarily a priority.
Some analysts in Russia and elsewhere also said they thought that Mr. Putin had begun to realize that the violence that Russia was helping to perpetuate in Syria was working at cross purposes with the goal of showing Europe that he is a reliable partner and a peacemaker who does not deserve the economic sanctions that are denying Russia desperately needed access to Western credit markets.
But if CAP was created to put an emphasis on the policy side of the ledger, and furthermore was intended to push not only the U.S. government in general, but the Democratic Party in particular, in new directions, then we can see the ways in which Tanden is working at cross purposes with her own organization, since the result of her efforts in many instances is to further entrench the status of one particular Democratic faction.
Maeve finding her daughter, only to realize that her daughter recognizes a different woman as her mother (because why would she recognize Maeve?), was the sort of dark twist on the heartwarming reunion the story required, and that Maeve drags the girl with her off and away from the cabin as it falls under attack by Ghost Nation means we're in for at least an episode of the two at cross-purposes, as Maeve effectively kidnaps the girl she knows is hers.
Among them: A series of disturbing comments on immigration, all of which point to a xenophobic attitude against the very kind of hard-working and innovative people who built Silicon Valley; deeply entrenched misogyny that is at cross purposes to what tech purports to support (and never really does, but that's another story!); a tin ear to diversity, too, again still a weakness of tech; a president with a firm grip on Twitter, but a 1960s mentality on what tech is and is going to be; the possibility of a very damaging series of trade wars; and, of course, a very real chance of destabilizing the world stage with reckless policies that could maybe be canny if they did not seem so profoundly of the moment (you know: China bad, Russia good, we begin bombing Vanity Fair in five minutes).

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