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"muddled" Definitions
  1. confused
"muddled" Synonyms
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A screen full of gun-toting Nazis will often create a somewhat blurry effect that makes an already brown and muddled world look even more brown and muddled.
But Joe Biden is muddled in his ideology, muddled often just in his straightforward speech, runs basically as a generic Democrat in a way that annoys a lot of pundits, including me.
The process of rescheduling drugs, however, is a bit muddled.
The message of the march was muddled, thorny and divisive.
As a call to action, though, it's sort of muddled.
"Our thinking on this isn't muddled at all," she said.
On headphones the audio can be either muddled or clean.
It's muddled orange, lemon juice, maple syrup, bitter, and bourbon.
In short, Outlander is often muddled, but it's always vital.
Two more surrogates muddled Trump's immigration policy just days later.
However, data on how much tourists are spending is muddled.
The banter intent is there, but the execution is muddled.
Both sides have engaged in overblown rhetoric and muddled thinking.
In Turkey, the electoral situation is a bit more muddled.
When it came to substance, however, Biden was more muddled.
But to Gallagher's legal team, Bolivar's letter also seemed muddled.
But first the part of the message that wasn't muddled.
It's an awful shame that Suicide Squad is so muddled.
And, of course, it's a little more muddled than that.
The "us" and "them" in Lee's plays are always muddled.
And when he swung a bat, his head became muddled.
It seemed the best for them in my muddled state.
And especially in the early sections, meaning is sometimes muddled.
In 2020, that outcome is likely to be more muddled.
She acknowledged that the race's official results were still muddled.
Asked if the muddled Iowa results made him question Mrs.
It's a reflection of the muddled state of the race.
History also gives a muddled guide to the road ahead.
Democrats' messaging on impeachment has been muddled in recent weeks.
However, the downside is that the overall mission can get muddled.
But our approach to immigration remains stuck in a muddled past.
The line between influencer sponsorships and genuine content is notoriously muddled.
But that conversation has been muddled by a lack of perspective.
The response of Ms Park to the allegations has been muddled.
Muddled results from early contests may benefit Bloomberg most of all.
Her campaign dismissed criticism that Harris had muddled the issue again.
Everything but the tone of voices turns into a muddled mess.
There are three big areas where the debate gets muddled. 1.
But if Uber's messaging was muddled, so too is the NYTWA's.
When used off an iPhone, the sound is underpowered and muddled.
Andrew Yang tweeted that the "race is a muddled mess" now.
The point of all the questioning gets muddled and eventually lost.
In the refugee crisis, these divisions and responsibilities have become muddled.
Perry's writing might be muddled, but her overall message is not.
"It's a little muddled," said Tor Ekeland, a hacker defense attorney.
But Trump has long muddled weather and climate with his tweets.
That said, Jacobs has a muddled relationship with his former employer.
Many Democratic voters want someone less mild and muddled than Lamb.
It is also about the muddled sludge of Europe's colonial legacy.
Brain effects include mood shifts, muddled thinking, inattentiveness and poor memory.
Thus far, the science of trans athletes has been fairly muddled.
Like most good rants, it is repetitive and a bit muddled.
The Iowa caucuses may have made the picture even more muddled.
Sanders and Biden can likely weather a muddled result in Iowa.
Such setups can be a recipe for conflicts and muddled visions.
The speech was, in many ways, the sound of muddled policy.
Ms. Warner's staging still seems muddled both in concept and design.
This isn't just bad pacing, it's a muddled delineation of exposition.
Without good episodes, shows inevitably end up feeling muddled and aimless.
It's always stopping in its tracks, leaving the emotional throughline muddled.
A veteran diplomat, Bilahari Kausikan, called them "muddled, mendacious and indeed dangerous".
"There was nothing muddled or ambiguous about that message," one official said.
This is where Tom's newfound sense of justice starts to feel muddled.
I'm gonna have to stop you there—I've muddled my words there.
It gets muddled and easily misinterpreted — but this is just the trailer.
The cause of this disarray could be that Mayism itself is muddled.
Clinton's policy-laden stump speech, the details became muddled along the way.
Meanwhile, people took to the streets to protest the muddled outcome. 5.
My mind is still the modern, muddled mess of doubts and anxiety.
It starts with strawberry purée, as well as muddled cucumber and rosemary.
During its deposition of Kalanick, Waymo "muddled" these separate meetings, Uber argues.
Its destructive symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, muddled thoughts and changes in behaviour.
I realize that's a muddled answer, but it's obviously a complicated question.
Everything, it seemed — melody, harmony — was foreground, and the texture grew muddled.
In the pursuit of those enormous goals, ethics can easily get muddled.
That deadline hit yesterday, and Puigdemont responded by restating his muddled position.
Two centuries later, the role of virtuosity in music has become muddled.
The future of the media industry, however, is a little more muddled.
This muddled notion of self-interest infected other areas of the speech.
But the picture is more muddled when one uses other marketing strategies.
It's about morals, which, even if they're muddled, are clarified through violence.
Fresh off of a 2016 in which they muddled to a near-.
Those things just don't matter; consequently, neither does the film's muddled moral.
His muddled path led to him falling into the draft's second round.
It's not the first time that the two organs have been muddled.
As I've muddled through young adulthood, I've often felt dejected or lost.
Muddled messaging is unfortunately a specialty of our country's dwindling liberal forces.
It is also a story about the muddled sludge of colonial history.
At Doppelgänger, an orange slice is then lightly muddled at the bottom.
But in other matters, Mr. Rubio has taken a more muddled approach.
With Sanders in the lead, the race behind him is quite muddled.
Go deeper ... Expert Voices: Years of muddled U.S. strategy deepened Syria crisis
"Who Says" has good intentions, but it's muddled by juvenile, cloying lyrics.
The prime minister bludgeoned Mr. Corbyn for his muddled position on Brexit.
At the Iowa Memorial Union, the embrace was warm, if occasionally muddled.
Jules is mostly irrelevant, except to provide a muddled contrast with Helmut.
It helped that the Labour Party's position on Brexit was hopelessly muddled.
If anything, Hollywood's insistence on those archetypes has only muddled the picture.
And will other contemporary brands experiencing stagnancy (or muddled identity) follow Thakoon's lead?
Analysts have noted that muddled policies are complicating matters for miners in Indonesia.
Muddled blackberries give this riff on a French 75 its heady fuschia hue.
One of things that this exhibition makes evident is how muddled history is.
I bought a portable headphone amp, but all of the notes muddled together.
Here's the good, bad, and weird of this muddled but ultimately intriguing series.
The government may also become even more involved in agriculture, to muddled effect.
America has grown healthily and the rest of the world has muddled along.
The race among the candidates aligned with the Republican Party establishment remains muddled.
And his muddled writings on monetary policy betray his lack of economic training.
Policies are often much more muddled than they appear to the outside world.
The circumstances around the event, as well as Erakat's true intentions, are muddled.
Schumpeter's theory is that GE's flow of financial information has become fantastically muddled.
The true effects of the tariff war remain mixed and muddled at best.
When it comes to comedowns, the message behind weed gets a little muddled.
Behind President Donald Trump's dismissive rhetoric of renewable energy is a muddled picture.
Throughout the increasingly muddled narrative of the series, this force is a constant.
It's as good an explanation as any for the resulting film's muddled nature.
Now that Republicans are tackling the issue, their goals are far more muddled.
Yet the EU specialises in muddled compromises and talking its way around referendums.
On Wednesday, though, there was no talk of opportunities missed or messages muddled.
The fighting in Hasaka also further muddled the American role in the conflict.
Alas, all fell well short in the execution, yielding dark but muddled drama.
So while the connotations were a bit muddled, at least they were memorable.
"There should never be any muddled fruit in this cocktail," McAllister told Insider.
But its anger will be a certain kind: cramped, masculine, muddled with fear.
But with such a muddled exchange, it might be too little, too late.
It's a polarizing subject that unfortunately gets muddled with conversations about anti-vaccination.
But his solo and its multinational sources suggest that identity is muddled, complicated.
What could be a campy good time instead comes across as muddled confusion.
But exercise and inactivity are involved as well, although their contributions are muddled.
The message from elections across not just Africa but the globe is muddled.
Here's where my teenage relationship to Tegan and Sara gets a bit muddled.
What made Burial's initial releases unusual were the drums, which sounded purposefully muddled.
Last month's election further muddled matters by revoking the Conservatives' majority in Parliament.
Bloomberg entering the race on Super Tuesday will make it even more muddled.
And I think was somewhat muddled in the initial comments from the press conference.
And think of the muddled definitions that such a two-tier system would introduce.
It's a time-honored queer inquiry, and its answer is often muddled and fluid.
And her position on legalization is somewhat more muddled than that of her opponents.
The opinions of Sal, Mueller and Doc represent the muddled majority view in America.
Mr Trump does not deserve all the blame for meek and muddled American policy.
Even fewer will leave the film with that view unchanged, or at least muddled.
But so far, the effect has been marginal at most and muddled at least.
The muddled nature of these specifics could make it tougher to press Kavanaugh directly.
The accusations followed somewhat muddled remarks that the governor made on a radio show.
"But I understand how that could feel interconnected and could get muddled," she continued.
A single speaker cannot give the same experience; the channels get muddled and mixed.
This new perspective on the muddled situation comes from Jackson's ex-girlfriend, Lexi Thexton.
" "Tone seems to be moving from tough to shrill.... He muddled his own message.
Amid the debate, efforts to relay German cultural values to newcomers can become muddled.
The devastating ambush, and the muddled response, will further undermine confidence in the government.
It's a simple drink, basically a gin Mojito with muddled basil instead of mint.
Clinton wants to continue a muddled mix of intervention, regime change and bombing campaigns.
Last night's battle was thematically and morally muddled, a reflection of a rushed endgame.
So what does one make from this muddled election that gave us both Gov.
Some analysts and experts have written off Trump's team as demonstrating a muddled message.
Mazer's thinking on the subject of military service was muddled by tragedy and rage.
But the Illinois race is muddled by third-party candidates, including conservative State Sen.
Now, the question is: Why is the e-cigarette public health message so muddled?
Critics say that sends out a muddled message about the importance of avoiding sugar.
So maybe "Look What You Made Me Do" is too muddled to really parse.
None of this — poor play, muddled stadium plans, off-field controversies — is anything new.
Alexander Aciman explores the muddled allegiances and yearnings of his French and Jewish heritage.
The result is muddled orders that are unfair to both victims and the accused.
These muddled and confused responses to the crisis are rooted in xenophobia and blame.
The problem is less her debate performance than the muddled campaign she has run.
Through it all, Ms. Alaimo said, the messages from the brands have become muddled.
In the absence of their star for 39 games, the Angels muddled along below .
"You're almost scared to do anything" because the polling is so muddled, Woodard continued.
The Washington Post and NBC News stories make an already muddled situation less clear.
But it's also, for much of its two hours, more muddled and less engaging.
But they have received muddled direction from the Pentagon, two Defense Department officials said.
Crunching together two second-tier businesses is tough enough without a muddled governance structure.
This rambling, repetitive, muddled and narrow-minded work then turns to more recent events.
It wasn't always easy, but we swore and wept and muddled our way through.
Mr. Turner seemed to be offering a muddled ideology that conflated drinking with rape.
They also said Warren's claims muddled people's understanding about how tribal citizenship actually works.
As well meaning as this movie is, it is also a turgid, muddled one.
But it's a slightly muddled piece that would benefit from more complex stage design.
Other polls have painted a muddled picture of Tennessee voters' views of the race.
When Trump veered outside his apocalyptic comfort zone, his logic became a bit muddled.
Automakers caught between the petroleum past and the digital future will send muddled messages.
Instead, they have a muddled field of battered mainstream candidates: Mr. Bush, Mr. Rubio, Gov.
Clinton gave a muddled answer to a debate question about driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.
The margins were modest, the majority — 50.1 percent — thin, and the message technocratic and muddled.
Every day we have to check Donald Trump's Twitter and monitor his administration's muddled communications.
One of the most crucial action scenes is rushed, visually muddled, and hard to follow.
Yet the reconfigured movie's gender politics are muddled, even more so than its source material.
In a leaked e-mail he took aim at "muddled thinking" on Brexit (see article).
Even a formidable diva wasn't able to enliven this 80-minute piece's dreary, muddled inconsequence.
Muddled Europeans may have confused Guinea with Guyana, today South America's only English-speaking country.
Instead they have used salesmanship and buzzwords to insist a muddled argument is crystal clear.
So it's a pretty muddled terrain out there to predict which company is truly leading.
In it, there was muddled blackberry and limes, blackberry schnapps, tequila, bitters, and cranberry juice.
This experience of one guide for all gets a bit muddled during the setup process.
They're all churned vigorously by the rhythms and motions of the machine until muddled together.
But when the kitchen reaches for the throttle, the results can be muddled or muted.
However, at equal parts genius and nauseating, these pranks come with a pretty muddled thesis.
The arm is a clue to his isolation, and a key to his muddled memory.
But ultimately, the Kingsglaive story is too muddled to ease viewers to this new world.
They seem a bit muddled so far, but that may be part of the point.
These announcements have muddled the race some, and underscored how fluid it could still be.
In "God's Plan," it's something else: Drake exhibits a hubris that's simultaneously muddled and sick.
His appearances at daily press briefings have muddled his administration's official messaging on the outbreak.
Their samples are muddled, and not everything found can be connected to one particular disease.
He clarified that there were two separate investigations, but the senator continued the muddled questioning.
After the sudden change, epidemiologists warned that the true picture of the epidemic is muddled.
South Carolina, too, is more "muddled" than it's been in previous years, experts tell Vox.
The provenance of the device is muddled, a situation that will not be clarified here.
But we also found wines that were muddled, oaky and rustic in an unpleasant way.
The effects of the proposed tax reform are muddled by the plan's lack of detail.
There's only one way to fix the White House's muddled message machine: Fire Stephanie Grisham.
And then we add Bitcoin to the mix, and the situation gets even more muddled.
MORE — the military has seemingly muddled through with obligatory efforts to build the Afghan Army.
Plans for the rights issue had, however, been very muddled, finding little favour with investors.
Mueller also wasn't afraid of going after liars whose false statements could have muddled the investigation.
And as Lynch withdrew from the show, it became narratively muddled, inconsistent, and sometimes downright silly.
Only the ones who murder a lot of people in the name of muddled philosophical convictions.
Peter MacKay, the former Canadian defense minister, thinks Wagner's muddled identity is one of its strengths.
Audio on the Bragi Headphone was often muddled by the whirring of its noise cancellation feature.
As with rehab exos, the potential for devices built for mobility are muddled by insurance questions.
The immigration crisis was one of the most muddled - and poisonous - parts of the Brexit debate.
So Ms Le Pen has fudged the issue, with a muddled plan for parallel currencies instead.
To become good teachers of introductory macro, they have to give clear answers to muddled students.
Alas, most of us are stuck with dialogue created by our muddled brains, not literary pens.
Between the lines: This kinetic activity comes amid muddled developments in the U.S.–China trade war.
Yet turn it up even a little bit and the detail in your tunes gets muddled.
Even in her muddled state, she had remembered the gesture she had used all her life.
The entire muddled process has certainly complicated business for people who make a living selling misinformation.
If Rubio stumbles in New Hampshire, though, the race could remain muddled for a bit longer.
The narrowness of Sanders' message is efficient, while Clinton's message so far is muddled and defensive.
Trump's comments Wednesday reflect the muddled messaging that has come from the administration throughout the negotiations.
Even as he jumped between residences and muddled headspaces, his creative drive started to nag him.
The dense gray outside seemed to mix with the alcohol, further muddling her already muddled state.
It's easy to get that green, muddled, flavor, like bitter plant matter—think over-steeped tea.
Trump's substantive objectives in the looming debate over tax policy are muddled, but almost certainly wrongheaded.
We're now in an even more confusing moment, and Klepper's first-episode manifesto was slightly muddled.
Devastating triviality and muddled sentiment scuttle through an account of a dying man and his friends.
But he then muddled that answer by stating that "other people" could have also been involved.
Currently, this message is muddled and confusing young voters as to the purpose of our party.
The result was meandering frontiers that do not even follow the region's already muddled ethnic divisions.
It falls under the search giant's muddled Communications division, which is also trying to reinvigorate Hangouts.
But in the final stages of the inquiry, he has also been surprisingly ineffective and muddled.
But since the mid-1970s, productivity has continued ever upward, while pay has only muddled along.
On farms, they are being muddled into a single hybridized population adapted to no particular environment.
"Uncanny Valley" is a reminder that the reality is far more muddled but no less damning.
With their brains parched for vitamin C, sailors would find their perceptions muddled and emotions heightened.
Still, the growing frustration has muddled the corporate response to President Trump's tough anti-China rhetoric.
But even then, the picture can be muddled when competing interests get thrown into the mix.
The nation's fourth-largest bank, Wells Fargo remains muddled in restructuring and regulatory reforms since 2016.
But no election-year incumbent wants a story line muddled by angry bands of roving protesters.
Many experts I spoke to think Labour is taking this muddled approach for the wrong reasons.
Although he muddled the execution through a series of mistakes, Regan came dangerously close to succeeding.
The result is a muddled first effort in which drama and melodrama are hard to distinguish.
While the message was muddled by the medium, Daniels has a one track mind on this matter.
Directed by Ivo van Hove, this glamorously muddled show is transfixing only when it sings (23010:21).
Directed by Ivo van Hove, this glamorously muddled show is transfixing only when it sings (241113:2777).
But just like with any trend, the longer things are around, the more the message gets muddled.
In a pivotal scene Novey shifted abruptly into a poem that felt overdramatic and muddled crucial action.
This muddled the chain of authority, prompting infighting and associating Mr Abdullah with all the government's failures.
Staking terms are frequently disputed, tax issues become muddled, deadlines for cash transfers are forgotten or ignored.
But for a proud pragmatist like Clinton, a muddled mandate may be a feature, not a bug.
British voters sent a muddled message that leaves their country weaker in a time of serious challenges.
It's an easy-on-the-eyes read for the layman, neither technical nor muddled with scientific jargon.
But hugging a leader whom Mrs Merkel treats warily further confused Germany's muddled "eastern policy", or Ostpolitik.
Alas, when you realize The Accountant is a disjoined, confused, muddled mess, it sticks in one's craw.
Though Mr. Trump's ideas have so far been both muddled and changeable, his proposals may challenge Mrs.
Guuumhhhh, my body stuffed into the seat, my bone marrow cooked, and soft viscera muddled into jelly.
He told his staff: "I hope you will continue to challenge ill-founded arguments and muddled thinking".
To be fair, the audio is muddled, so it's not clear exactly what Trump is talking about.
"Somehow, we muddled through and got it done," he said of the "fast-track" trade negotiating law.
Things got muddled in the aftermath of a Supreme Court ruling in 85033 called United States v.
"Their message is muddled in part because they haven't settled on policy," GOP strategist Alex Conant said.
But that's where things grow muddled, given that the Aboriginals are major players in the story themselves.
You could see this devolving into a muddled stalemate, with each company holding a sliver of users.
Despite the president's stated public preference for Strange, the Trump factor in the race has been muddled.
She allowed a tear to run down her face, leaving a muddled gray stripe through her makeup.
They're watching the Finnish case closely, and a muddled reaction to this case could harm prospects elsewhere.
At high volumes, the mids overpower everything, leaving a muddled mess with no bass and straining highs.
Any tactical plan Berrettini had taken on court with him was already in tatters, his thinking muddled.
We now have crisp distinctions and tools that just a few years ago were muddled and fuzzy.
So workers and clients and their families have muddled through, decade after decade, as best they can.
But while the Democratic field now looks more uniform, the public's views are often muddled and complex.
We know because when we're confronted with more complex messages and muddled power dynamics, we short-circuit.
The origin's muddled, but most agree that the bar's namesake was a Ukrainian immigrant named Frank Vigderman.
"That Damn Donna Reed" is a particular offender, worsened by the fact that it's also thematically muddled.
Germany muddled through the Great Depression, the Weimar Republic kept going, and World War II never arose.
The message — Miles's nice-guy demeanor is both his weakness and his salvation — gets a little muddled.
Polarized, maybe, but more muddled and meandering that ever before as we navigate the confused and confusing.
The wrongs done emerge from the muddled ethics typical of domestic quarrels, but their repercussions are vast.
It's not yet clear -- particularly with the Iowa results muddled -- how much that has translated into momentum.
Its end, announced in 2016, was a muddled one: Was Vine mismanaged by Twitter, its parent company?
Her shift to making film was a deliberate response to the muddled reception of her earlier photographs.
I try to keep it all in my head, and it gets kind of weird and muddled.
In a muddled way, Clegg also detailed Facebook's policy around "newsworthy" content, which applies to all users.
Democrats across the political spectrum are increasingly frustrated with the party's muddled message on the impeachment process.
True, with campaign ads from every side being broadcast night after night, voters might have been muddled.
Ms. Meade and Ms. Barton were so compelling that I almost forget about David McVicar's muddled production.
He said that during the current situation, the terminology around this issue was often getting muddled up.
Occasionally, the question of whom to talk to about clearance is more muddled than you might think.
The same holds true for the show, which improved by leaps and bounds since its muddled pilot.
Both Suicide Squad and Batman v Superman, meanwhile, are beset by truly muddled stories and narrative structures.
He had films that couldn't be enjoyed by the same audiences, and the comparisons muddled with that.
After expressing concern about Wikileaks' release of documents allegedly revealing CIA surveillance techniques, Spicer quickly muddled his message.
My thoughts on what I felt the outcome should be remained muddled, but time didn't wait for me.
That muddled policy has been particularly damaging to the efforts to bring Coleman and her family back home.
After looking through what researchers called "muddled" research, they found no evidence that curcumin had any beneficial effects.
Lastly, a brand can become muddled when you don't have a well-defined group of products, Lemonis explained.
"They haven't had a clear mission to put ad money behind," Severino said, criticizing Democratic messaging as muddled.
Reed says that practicing out of general worry or confusion will lead to a muddled and biased reading.
In response, some formulated a muddled theory of racial discrimination specific only to black men and not women.
The last general election in 2012 was also muddled by a focus on certain candidates' links to Japan.
Duggan sidesteps more pertinent questions of body politics and personal responsibility through this kind of muddled philosophical conjecture.
But what next-generation techniques actually do is more muddled and incremental than marketers would want to admit.
On punier smart speakers, the same song is more muddled and you don't get as much dynamic range.
A seriously shocked Emma Stone gave Moonlight's Mahershala Ali a hug as both casts muddled through the confusion.
The BoomStick makes different instruments in a music mix easier to hear, and things generally sound less muddled.
But who or what is actually responsible for the unhappy state of affairs in the muddled Middle East?
Kelvin Tong's "The Offering," a muddled horror film, falls over itself incorporating as many genre elements as possible.
Then there is mors, fresh cranberries muddled with sugar, drowned in boiling water and left for the night.
Florida, which looked like a major success story for Republicans on Tuesday night, now looks much more muddled.
Pompeo has previously said that's the goal, but the timeline has been muddled by other administration officials' statements.
Traditionalists worry that Longquan's flashy high-tech tools may have muddled the teachings of the Buddha, the dharma.
In another episode, as Beatrice Horseman descends into dementia, an episode charts the inside of her muddled mind.
Because of the muddled laws in several states, some voters are still at risk of breaking the rules.
This muddled series, at least from the first three episodes, doesn't give a viewer much to latch onto.
Outside of a few muddled queries, Alvarez didn't hesitate to respond to any question at MSG on Tuesday.
Yet, the more instrumental the human being's attitude towards the animal is, the more muddled his mirror becomes.
In doing so, he waded into — and further muddled — the mixed-up politics of housing development in America.
Much of Americans' frustrations have been over the muddled effort to ensure that appropriate testing is widely available.
That may be the best explanation for the White House's muddled reaction to the Democrats' enthusiastic "deal" announcement.
But the cases show how muddled the debate over criminal justice has become, even in this liberal state.
For years Venezuelans have muddled through overlapping social and economic crises, but the blackouts have made everything worse.
They are also planned to be briefer and have been accompanied by muddled messaging from the White House.
Muddled sick pay rules left many workers to choose between coming to work sick and going without pay.
But the muddled messages are creating their own problems and threatening to undermine the push for presidential accountability.
It's frustrating to see such a sophisticated cinematic apparatus used in the service of such muddled half-ideas.
Those uniforms, while helping raise money for worthy causes, create a muddled look, making teams appear too similar.
The matter is muddled by the current administration officials' refusing to answer questions without explicitly invoking executive privilege.
I have muddled memories of my parents' closed-door arguments about my father's extracurricular activities with other women.
There are stoned discussions of nirvana and muddled yearnings for peace and wholeness, reminiscent of Denis Johnson stories.
Last month, Mr. McCain seemed muddled while questioning James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, at a hearing.
But a closer look at the facts reveals that the Trump administration is more than a bit muddled.
For gai yang, Isan-style barbecue chicken, thigh meat is bathed in milk muddled with lemongrass and galangal.
The poem was called "Sinkhole," and it seemed to offer some sneaky, syntactically muddled wisdom about letting go.
She offered a muddled, shifting answer that allowed Biden's campaign to paint her as opportunistic and a hypocrite.
The muddled outlook for trade was reflected in the mixed outcome for U.S. stocks on Thursday, investors said.
Currently on offer is the Ananas Cooler, made of pineapple juice, ginger beer, muddled mint and agave nectar.
Adding to the muddled messages, Mr. Tillerson spoke a few hours after the national security adviser, Lt. Gen.
Hard to pin down, easily muddled up, and easily miswritten, especially with the aid of our correcting machines.
He was on deployment in Afghanistan when the nausea returned, with migraine symptoms, abnormal thirst and muddled thinking.
And some of these younger judges, I think, feel that, over the years, the Supreme Court has become muddled.
Political guests are subject to continual mockery, especially if they have a scandalous past or their policies appear muddled.
It's worth wondering if the writers of 13 Reasons Why knew some people muddled the message of season 1.
It unveiled a muddled manifesto that alienated voters and was out-campaigned by the veteran left-winger Jeremy Corbyn.
His organizing operation struggled in Iowa, his fundraising numbers have never been impressive, and his message is often muddled.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has given muddled answers on how Facebook will apply the European guidelines elsewhere.
Mr Trump is right to want to "keep America safe" from such influences, even if he muddled his figures.
Many agree that the definition of a "natural born citizen" — a constitutional requirement for seeking the presidency — remains muddled.
The conversation around #NotMyBattlefield, which has spread throughout the game's many online communities, is a muddled, often toxic mess.
The issue is further muddled by the existence of "use by" and "best by" dates, which do indicate safety.
The "EU," as it was referred to, had grown increasingly unwieldy and muddled over the preceding 20-odd years.
Sure, the miniseries technically began Sunday night, but its re-premiere was muddled, confusing and, worst of all, boring.
A new CNN-WMUR poll released Sunday shows a muddled race for second and third place in New Hampshire.
The definition can be muddled if we were to look at films like Annie Hall or House of Cards.
U.S. and Qatar relations were also muddled when Trump seemed to celebrate the dispute, taking credit for the decision.
But once you get to what their own vision is for the party, things get a bit more muddled.
Still, reading the media coverage ahead of the event offers a muddled picture, even with the benefit of hindsight.
Spencer was later ejected from CPAC, as part of the conference's muddled attempt to shake the disease of fascism.
Just check out this ad for the Wii U: At E3 in 2011 the presentation was even more muddled.
But it's still a muddled ideological melting pot, and perhaps it's a place where Andrew Yang can do well.
We're just six days out and the race for the White House is as muddled as it's ever been.
In one notable instance—Sessions's congressional testimony about Comey's dismissal—the Trump administration took a murky and muddled approach.
Their star personae are so confused and muddled that the distinction between real and fake appears to be disappearing.
The defining quality of Trump's first year in office is that everything was a muddled mess of reactionary noise.
The bill would codify the NLRB's 2015 decision that muddled the definition of "joint employer" for two separate companies.
But we weren't fans of the movie, which offers a muddled plot in a not-terribly-imaginative future Berlin.
Clips from her show provide comic relief, and she purposefully avoids addressing the muddled and corrupt world of politics.
For now, in the middle of the muddled mess it's hard to find definitive answers to these tough issues.
Nearly two decades later, the definition has gotten a little muddled — which is not a bad thing at all.
For years, legal scholars and some of his fellow jurists have disparaged Justice Kennedy's opinions as muddled and vague.
Given this drama, it's easy to mistake Mr. Trump's visit for a mash-up of meetings and muddled messages.
This would be the messiest, most muddled scenario, and the one where a contested convention would be most likely.
The ringleader of the spies is "Meyer," played by the quintessentially Italian Al Pacino doing a muddled Yiddish accent.
Palmer added that policymakers were also muddled about the problem they are trying to mitigate in the first place.
And the muddled outcome failed to give any of the candidates the electoral tailwind about which they'd been fantasizing.
Most analysts expected it would grant an extension, though that was unlikely to clarify the muddled situation in London.
"The Rise of Skywalker," released last week, is a muddled and aimless homage to previous films in the series.
Meanwhile, Gianforte's muddled stance on the GOP's bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare has made for Democratic attack fodder.
We'll see if that changes the direction of things, which at this point, is in an absurdly muddled place.
The sound mixing was rough — characters' voices were sometimes too soft, too loud or just too muddled to comprehend.
After 16 years of that kind of muddled thinking, people expect their elected leaders to take a firm stand.
A slightly muddled extension of the R + L = J theory that basically argues Meera Reed is Jon Snow's twin sister.
But far from being frictionless, the transition from Pax Britannica to Pax Americana was messy, muddled and frequently bad-tempered.
Against this muddled backdrop, GoodRx helps patients by shining a spotlight on drug prices and how much they can vary.
And, of course, Republicans who succumb to such muddled thinking, like Colin L. Powell, Condoleezza Rice and even Mr. Bush.
ANONYMOUS Have you tried something subtle, like: "I'd sooner drink tequila muddled with rat poison than meet you for coffee"?
The muddled anti-Trump effort within the G.O.P. needs a vocal leader — why not claim that title as your own?
But chances are good that the day a couple typically counts as their anniversary will get muddled along the way.
And some — myself included — found Joker to be pretty underwhelming, more muddled and less provocative than it thinks it is.
And so the conversation around the season premiere has been a bit more muddled than it's been in past seasons.
Divergent storylines have become so muddled together it is now hard to tell where one ends and the next begins.
The abandoned stadiums as well as the headlines of corruption and debt have muddled Rio de Janeiro's legacy for 21996.
What he certainly takes seriously are the decisions that point to new policy priorities, muddled as they might seem now.
Though this doesn't mean emoji interpretations are wildly off, it still suggests that some messages could have their meanings muddled.
The standard mechanisms for determining whether a product is desired by consumers—namely, prices, profits, and losses—are all muddled.
More often than not, they were muddled with obscure album tracks and lackluster sing-alongs from an increasingly unfocused crowd.
Her speeches can sometimes seem muddled and unfocused, but Clinton allies say she delivers her best speeches in key moments.
The audio is muddled and the meaning of Trump's use of the word "cash" is disputed by the two sides.
While top administration officials tried to separate Trump's comments from the trade talks, Trump muddled that message earlier this week.
The on-again, off-again negotiations have been muddled by disagreements over when — and how — Ford will present her case.
Because the laws in several states are muddled, under review or confusing, unsuspecting voters may run afoul of the rules.
I mean the party, whose unresolved tensions and muddled mission are manifest in the contrasts and contest between these two.
But the other shades — Cake, a gorgeous nude; Crush, a magenta pink; and Jam, a muddled purple — are equally clutch.
It's a tribute to the drug's muddled popular conception as a horse tranquilizer, club drug, and cure for refractory depression.
The administration has in recent weeks taken steps to combat criticisms about its slow and muddled response to the coronavirus.
Muddled, catchall definitions such as these lend themselves to the sort of surreal politicking that we now see in Britain.
The White House's muddled message highlighted the confusion sowed by Mr. Trump's on-the-spot decision to meet Mr. Kim.
But the public's views are often muddled and complex: Surveys find many voters struggle with its ethical and moral perplexities.
It may help him recruit talent for his kitchen, but it may also be a reason the service is muddled.
What Mennour could have muddled by being ambiguous is instead magnificent in an imaginative-imagistic way associated with good taste.
Other popular hashtags used during the fire, such as #campfire, were too muddled with general information or observations, he said.
There can be too many contacts to follow and the path from one infected person to another becomes too muddled.
The state's bartenders mix it up with muddled orange and cherry, and top it with soda water or soda pop.
It was common, during the opening days, to run into muddled visitors wandering the streets, clutching maps and looking grumpy.
Wells Fargo has remained muddled in restructuring and regulatory reforms since the fake accounts were brought to light in 2016.
Social grammar police: In Southeast Asia, watchdog accounts on social media call out misspelled and otherwise muddled English-language captions.
But once the thrill of becoming reacquainted wears off, you're left with a somewhat muddled, not at all credible yarn.
Those numbers are probably a reflection of the Democrats' muddled primary, but they validate both parties' theory of the race.
Hong Kong (CNN Business)A muddled view of US-China trade talks once again seems to be weighing on investors.
They're part of a broader awareness outreach whose strategic endgame is precisely as muddled as you suspect it might be.
Labour's somewhat muddled stance on Brexit in an election that is absolutely all about Brexit may also be a liability.
While the labor market remains strong with an unemployment rate of 3.7% near historic lows, the inflation outlook looks muddled.
But suffice to say that while Sanders's 30-second debate answer was certainly muddled, Clinton's criticism strikes me as false.
Lee: The case for optimism is that American democracy has always been in crisis, and somehow we've muddled through despite that.
Stated differently, Trump knows how to negotiate, and his skills cannot be assessed midstream -- because midstream is often muddy and muddled.
In Japan, inflation expectations began to slip in the early 1990s as real-time price gains muddled along below 2 percent.
Clinton's actual comments, during a podcast exchange about the Republican Party's 153 strategy, have been muddled in the ensuing media hubbub.
The article focuses on plot-related clashes, but while the storyline is muddled, the movie's real problems are tone and character.
The muddled Quantum of Solace was a disappointment after Casino Royale, and Spectre's attempts to duplicate Skyfall's success yielded mixed results.
Regardless of how it works out, I think his description of this muddled position as an "institutional responsibility" is remarkably apt.
The timeline of events leading up to Uber's acquisition of self-driving trucking startup Otto has always been a bit muddled.
Correction (December 4th, 2017): An earlier version of this story muddled the case of Vicky Thompson with that of Joanne Latham.
There never seemed much point in telling my sad, muddled story, except to people in my life who care about me.
The football fans that grumble about being muddled by ABBA will be irritated even more by Mr Palacios-Huerta's next suggestion.
Facing a 24/7 news cycle, these messages become muddled and aren't breaking through to those who are open to listening.
And the line between actor and character is often completely muddled for viewers that live far beyond the realities of Hollywood.
I thought if I could take most of the plant matter out, I wouldn't have green, muddled flavors in my caramels.
Its climax was especially muddled, and kept a solid film from becoming the very good one it occasionally flirted with being.
The country's many and muddled ethnicities are not perfectly divided by its seven ethnically defined states and six official autonomous areas.
In his often inchoate and muddled remarks about the past, he's managed to craft a national story that fits his agenda.
Such attempts to frame access to coverage as someone else's problem are muddled as a matter of both practice and principle.
Whereas von Trier's and Haneke's films achieve, for all their exaggerations and extremes, an essayistic clarity, Lanthimos's can be quite muddled.
But the debate about how to fix the system for setting executive pay is marred by muddled thinking and divergent objectives.
Unfortunately, the debate has been muddled by people failing to differentiate between whether the SSN is an identifier or an authenticator.
A cone might be less sensitive than usual, making a color appear dull or muddled with nearby colors in the rainbow.
The legislative effort has been a muddled mess from the beginning with mostly closed-door negotiations and no meaningful deliberative process.
Stocks swerved between gains and losses on Thursday and wound up with a muddled finish as the price of oil plunged.
U.S. and Qatar relations were then muddled when Trump seemed to celebrate the dispute and even took credit for the decision.
And the poster child for this more muddled future is the pricey new MacBook Pro, which appears in stores this week.
It would be easier if there were a clear and transcendent moment of realization, but it's mostly just muddled and overwhelming.
It's too muddled to provoke viewers to actually think about why they're laughing at jokes that use stereotypes as the punchline.
I've found the staff at CAA to be professional and eager to assist, but occasionally things get muddled at check-in.
And that wasn't the only extraneous sound on the call — there were random beeps, muddled voices, overtalking and some long pauses.
This explains a good deal, because in recent times the boundaries between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism have become hopelessly muddled.
But the public's views are often muddled and complex: Surveys find that many voters struggle with its ethical and moral perplexities.
The entire government can be delivering a consistent message, but if the president says something different, then it all gets muddled.
Flowery vocabulary muddles an already muddled plot: Inland is a grand and rollicking novel, reminiscent of Dickens or H. Rider Haggard.
This muddled journey began with Nirvana in my dad's pickup truck, Johnny Cash on Sunday mornings, and Fantasia in the VCR.
A public health emergency is not the sort of thing that can be muddled through by guesswork and politicians' gut instincts.
This latest drop has come as the coronavirus outbreak has muddled the outlook for the global economy and rattled equity markets.
He muddled whether the marriage cases were based on the Constitution's promise of equality, its protection of fundamental rights or both.
Expect plenty of scrapping among the frontrunners as they seek to set themselves apart in the muddled top of the field.
With delegate counts finally registering and the field so muddled, the campaigns are starting to sharpen their attacks against each other.
CNN released the muddled and roughly three-minute-long tape, saying it had acquired the recording from Cohen's lawyer Laney Davis.
For one thing, the flip-flop on the release of "The Aeronauts" suggests a muddled vision for the film division's future.
As a recent article in The Daily Beast relates, until fairly recently the notion of forced cunnilingus was muddled at best.
The third movement was led by the bright newcomer Alston Macgill, acquitting herself with élan (apart from a muddled final pirouette).
She bravely and repeatedly dives into the muddled shadows of social issues often presented in cold statistics and cleanly drawn graphs.
The result is a muddled process that's unfair to students and schools, and puts taxpayers on the hook for significant costs.
That created a muddled message, as M.L.B. trumpeted the competition while the managers generally just wanted the players to have fun.
Labour also ran the election with a muddled Brexit policy that didn't quite embrace Remain, but also didn't staunchly back Leave.
The recording, which was broadcast by CNN, is sometimes muddled but provides details on payments to the former model, Karen McDougal.
The result is a muddled process that's unfair to students and schools, and puts taxpayers on the hook for significant costs.
Fabricated with runny pink pigments, feathers, and nail extensions, Dweck's work is a commentary on the muddled state of feminism today.
And things get even more muddled when studies are sponsored by corporations or organizations that could benefit from their potential outcomes.
The current state of the shutdown-and-wall negotiation is muddled, in part because Trump is such an unreliable bargaining partner.
There's a flow that was missing from the first iteration of SITElines, and a clarity that doesn't get muddled in excess.
LIASSON: I agree last week was a bad week, but I think the message from the White House is still pretty muddled.
But Trump's claims about what China conceded have muddled the start of a 90-day window for talks to reach an agreement.
It's a big muddled mess of CPUs with a whole new set of letters chasing the numbers that traditional define each model.
Compared to Jack and Rose's Titanic courtship, so well preserved in its three-hour glory, our own relationship histories can seem muddled.
But the only part that really bothered me was the car-harpoon (or carpoon) sequence, in part because it's so visually muddled.
While the feminist message is sometimes muddled—why should a woman be told to control her emotions instead of using her strength?
Sadly, in 2016, Evernote's overall product strategy continues to get muddled, and its apps just aren't as good as they once were.
It's still hard to say how Trump himself feels about net neutrality: the only indications are a muddled two-year-old tweet.
After all, coming off the drugs had left him restless and mentally muddled, and stress was exacerbating his chronic lower back pain.
But should the race become muddled, it's possible no candidate gets to the magic number needed before the GOP convention in July.
Part of the reason its accession to the EU has got nowhere has been the EU's muddled, many-headed set of policies.
The message was muddled, Balber said, when it was passed like a game of telephone from Veselnitskaya through the Agalarovs to Goldstone.
Things also get a little muddled heading into Annihilation's climax, but it's forgivable in a story so admirably confident in its outrageousness.
Yet as he mulls important shifts on immigration, he is still making muddled statements and remains far from clear on policy details.
Be careful what you ask for: both presidential nominating races are as muddled as the media have long fantasized they might be.
But the agency itself sometimes can't even distinguish between an advertisement and a normal post—underscoring how muddled the two have become.
Means suggested a South Side — a blend of gin, lemon juice, sugar and muddled mint — but the customer didn't care for mint.
After trying the vibration suit, Harvey said it was "cool and beautiful" to feel different musical vibrations that weren't all muddled together.
Yet the obesity picture is muddled because other studies have found that obesity in middle age increases dementia risk in old age.
He was the national leader for most of 2019, but squandered his early advantages with a muddled message and a lagging organization.
There are biblical allusions to Jesus, Mary, Judas and perhaps another disciple, but the story line is muddled and hard to interpret.
But to activists and officials in much of the developing world, both the problem and Facebook's muddled solutions will be old news.
But when he returns to the set of his feature, irresistibly titled "The Hamburger Girl," life and art become even more muddled.
Aside from the beauty of the design, she loved how the hand-loomed template that Albers intended for factory reproduction muddled categories.
An invading force bent on total, if sometimes muddled, global domination is closer to what the Pajerski family of St. Anthony, Minn.
But the women of Will Arbery's surreal, funny, ultimately muddled "Plano" return and return and return to the subject of their men.
Opinion polling was still unsophisticated at the time: Interviewees were not necessarily representative, poll questions contained hidden biases, the data was muddled.
If he becomes muddled by questions from senators, how are we to feel confident in his ability to oversee an entire department?
Two inexperienced detectives hastily decided that Ms. O'Connell had taken her own life, even though the crime scene offered a muddled picture.
But there are also too many muddled volleys off the top of the head, lacking the needed factual follow-up and correction.
I can't claim to completely understand Goodloe Sutton's fundamentally misguided and hateful editorial, because the logic, from a composition perspective, is muddled.
In its study of muddled, liberal, middle-class, white masculinity, The Square recalls Östlund's breakout international hit, the 2014 feature Force Majeure.
The battle between the Italian state and organized crime groups has been muddled and murderous over the decades of the 20th century.
Others, though, remain closed, and local governments have issued mixed -- and in some cases muddled -- guidance about what companies should be doing.
Others, though, remain closed, and local governments have issued mixed — and in some cases muddled — guidance about what companies should be doing.
And that's what I was trying to say earlier in a very muddled way about people who are posting on social media.
The announcement was a muddled mess and was barely noticed by the national media on the day of the South Carolina primary.
Muddled Shakespeare can leave audiences blaming themselves for failing to get it — can, in fact, turn them off to trying it again.
The scattered, busy and occasionally pointless questioning left some topics more muddled than they had been at the start of the night.
Meanwhile, the sheer profusion of phone-­recorded audio can mean that some is murky and muddled, making it mind-wracking to decipher.
The movie, which paints a sometimes muddled picture of a chaotic and contested moment in history, is admirably clear in this regard.
And the modern debate, the one that inspires deep emotion, is about what should happen now about these muddled issues from then.
It was predictable that standard congressional committee investigations into the role of Russia and the election would turn into muddled partisan fights.
But the prohibition's final form, which stretched to 964 pages of regulation, has been criticised by banks as muddled and overly complex.
"I hope you will continue to challenge ill-founded arguments and muddled thinking," Mr. Rogers wrote in a farewell letter to colleagues.
Loeb criticized the company's "muddled strategic approach" and called for the company to split internally into three units: beverages, nutrition and grocery.
In an unsurprising turn of events, Ford and Lyft became the latest alliance in an increasingly muddled network of self-driving alliances.
The plucking of the guitar strings sounded more distinct and less muddled, even with noisy subway rails grinding in the real world background.
Representing people of color, specifically Black people, as monkeys has its own muddled history that pre-dates even the 54-year-old novel.
Update: In what was basically an overexcited game of virtual telephone, the actual story behind Urban Sophistication's "Belgie" merch got muddled very quickly.
The label is muddled in shadow and flickering candle light, but many fans were speculating it was the iconic green circle from Starbucks.
As a result of this confusion, financial clients were even more muddled when asked what they would like the ideal structure to be.
But with broadcast journalists writing stories online (and of course tweeting) in direct competition with newspaper or digital reporters, it's all become muddled.
Instead, he's sort of muddled through, promising to get a better Brexit deal if Labour gets elected and then take it from there.
Today Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain offer variations on this muddled-middle theme, some of them formal coalitions, some looser toleration agreements.
The White House's explanation for the resignation of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was muddled at best — then President Donald Trump weighed in.
Chairman Jerome Powell's comments after the Fed's expected rate cut are seen as confusing, and market pros say monetary policy has become muddled.
The muddled rollout of Teyana Taylor's second album, K.T.S.E., won't get the semi-tidy conclusion that she and her fans were hoping for.
The teams use internal chat rooms to share files when they need help parsing a muddled word—or come across an amusing recording.
With the help of a faculty member who prescribed antidepressants after noticing her failing mood, Southwick muddled through the remainder of her residency.
"The result is a muddled process that's unfair to students and schools, and puts taxpayers on the hook for significant costs," she said.
Lutz spoke with VICE about his personal journey and what it's like delving into the murky, muddled realities of living with mental illness.
US and Russia The White House has a new communications director, but the messages coming out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue are still muddled.
Somehow this conversation transitions into a hashing out of Reggie's personal feelings for Sam, proving how muddled love can get in collective work.
Note: The U.S. position is muddled after the senior director for Middle East policy in the National Security Council was ousted last Thursday.
Many of the African works have lost touch with their original meanings, a result of floundered oral histories and provenance muddled by colonization.
The creative direction is muddled: Mr Luhrmann directed only the first episode, but worked closely on them all, resulting in an uneven quality.
We do, however, know one simple fact: Putin's overarching objective is to portray Russia's "managed democracy" as superior to America's muddled, crooked democracy.
The app alters the image, creating an augmented reality image where colors that are muddled to a colorblind user's eye become totally distinct.
If she wants to escape the image imposed on her by the public, camouflaging herself in muddled pop cliché is certainly one strategy.
I found that snaggly, insoluble problems, in friendships and writing and marriage, were more easily confronted and could be muddled through for longer.
He skipped over the wayward, muddled period of his mayoralty when he drank too much and had an affair with his appointments secretary.
These denials inevitably create muddled, "he said, he said" moments that allow candidates to evade responsibility and affiliation with their most heinous supporters.
This leaner group still made an impact (if also, in the amplification of the endearing outdoor Libbey Bowl, a rather muddled, fractured one).
A lot of very muddled feelings... I've come to realise I have a crush on It... Both in and out of costume pic.twitter.
The closely watched federal government report on September job creation might have been muddled by the rougher-than-expected hurricane season, Cramer said.
Add to the fact that there is three other recognized sanctioning bodies, and the title of a "champion" becomes further muddled and meaningless.
Each sculpture's lush network of wires creates the same muddled coloration seen in his paintings, but brings it out into the 3D realm.
The immediate reaction tends to be both muddled and seen through a lens of decades of built-up distrust of the United States.
The politically engaged perennially argue that the way to mobilize the nonvoters is to offer a clearer choice, rather than a muddled echo.
The details of this one are a bit muddled, but Murray attended a widely-photographed house party in Charleston, South Carolina in 2014.
Given that the services are called "Disney+" and "Apple TV+" respectively, it's easy to see where things might start to get too muddled.
Details of Fields' interactions with law enforcement and his mother have offered a muddled impression of whether he felt remorse for his actions.
Although the movie seems to be aiming for some kind of social commentary, the message is muddled by a confusing, dimly lit trailer.
Initial exit polls had projected a muddled outcome, and many Israelis went to bed on Tuesday suspended in a post-ballot twilight zone.
In East Antarctica the picture has been muddled as the ice sheet there gained mass in some years and lost mass in others.
Part of the problem is the unhelpful way some of the words can be carelessly thrown around, so their meanings get muddled up.
She mistakenly referred to it as the Hyde Amendment, which somewhat muddled the discussion; the 2009 vote had been on the Stupak Amendment.
Beyond that, all is gloom and confusion under the sway of a narrative voice muddled by drink, drugs and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Occasionally this message gets muddled, as the show demonstrates some of the same blind spots it had about race and class last season.
"This is much more muddled for Democrats than I'm used to seeing in South Carolina," says Furman University political science professor Danielle Vinson.
Hathaway and Affleck might be miscast, or perhaps it's just impossible to parse what they're trying to accomplish in character arcs this muddled.
Previous attempts to stimulate human memory with implanted electrodes had produced mixed results: Some experiments seemed to sharpen memory, but others muddled it.
Xavier Dolan's muddled tale of a closeted celebrity and his much younger fan is shackled by an awkward structure and a fragmented vision.
But nearly everyone competing in Nevada not named Sanders is running low on resources and struggling to break out of a muddled field.
Along the way, his hope for a muddled field has withered as Sanders has racked up a commanding lead in the early states.
The data in many economic reports due out in the coming months are nearly certain to be muddled by hurricane devastation this season.
The 2017 effective tax rate number was muddled because of the tax dynamics at work but was believed to be around 25 percent.
Tesla's own public stance on Autopilot has been muddled, with the company sometimes issuing statements that the cars possess "full self-driving" capability.
Despite the muddled path forward for a DACA bill, Perdue argued that the two sides are closer to a deal than they seem.
This fall, she fielded criticism about its muddled strategy, abrupt firings of staffers, and unwillingness to fully confront her record as a prosecutor.
The country's banks have muddled through for years, but with the economy so weak, bad loans have festered and good loans have deteriorated.
Although Ms. Rubell identifies as a conceptual artist, her work, which usually involves food, tends to traffic in obvious symbols with muddled meanings.
Specifically, that would be their respective and elusive pasts, their equally muddled presents and, for the husband, a black hole of a future.
Soon enough, the grief feels magnified, becoming an ever-complicated web of shifting memory, gutted despair, muddled controversy over their worth, stark regret.
Corbyn denies he was commemorating the latter individuals, but his muddled explanations in the wake of the controversy left some unsatisfied with his response.
And it wasn't time particularly well spent: The questions were muddled, the discussion was shallow, and most viewers probably didn't come away better informed.
If anyone, at any point, ever had a clear vision for The Mummy, it's been muddled beyond recognition on the way to the screen.
The result is an intriguing but somewhat muddled multi-part series, distinguished by a producer roster that includes directors Steven Spielberg and Alex Gibney.
Because of the muddled legal landscape, the officers were entitled to "qualified immunity" that barred Mr. Armstrong's estate from collecting damages, the court said.
The reporting on Bryant's death was shocking in nature and showed the danger of real-time reporting, as several erroneous reports muddled the situation.
The deal has been muddled by media mogul Sumner Redstone's attempts to oust Viacom directors in a  over the $40 billion Viacom media empire.
In this edition: The Sanders voters who want a new outsider, the continuing debacle of Iowa, and the muddled polling picture in New Hampshire.
She's a Wall Street candidate running in an anti-establishment election cycle, delivering a muddled message to an electorate looking for clarity of vision.
The theme was chosen for its potential to draw connections back to the Barnes's exquisite 2051th-century collections, but the exhibition is deeply muddled.
Clinton's muddled Iowa showing will leave her supporters, donors and campaign staffers without bragging rights, possibly dampening enthusiasm and further ceding ground to Sanders.
The dispute has further muddled the outlook for this year's elections as another candidate also faces possible disqualification amid plagiarism and vote-buying accusations.
But our roles were already going to be muddled; I'm the only baseball fan in our house, and Sam says I have no arm.
Hopefully the Mavic Air is not a new product but a replacement for the Spark as the DJI product line is quickly getting muddled.
The music works like interiority, translating the muddled speech of Chekhov's play into the persistent feeling that is at the core of the work.
And so the book's identity is a muddled affair, poised between a big literary prize and a publicity campaign that's yanking its brow down.
Its iconography is beautifully rendered, if a little muddled: a lion and a buffalo, a fire-breathing dragon, two dinosaurs, Batman and the Joker.
In practice, though, these measures and tirades just show how muzzled and muddled Trump's trade policy has become now that it's collided with reality.
On a more frustrating level, the structure is confusing, particularly in the beginning, and narrative propulsion is muddled by the scope and poetic repetition.
Travel _____ Fifteen years after a college student was found shot five times in a quiet Brooklyn neighborhood, the circumstances of his death remain muddled.
Dr. Shah said it was already putting the dignity back in childbirth for women, for whom birth is too often muddled, confusing and traumatic.
The Senate vote outlook has been further muddled by Senator John McCain's admission to the hospital for treatment for side effects of cancer therapy.
The real danger the church faces is not ideological challenge from left or right but a muddled modus vivendi that puts peace before truth.
Verily was caught in a muddled story this month when President Donald Trump announced that Google was working on a COVID-19 screening website.
The data on Friday, however, could be muddled by the impact of Hurricane Florence, which struck the Carolinas in the middle of the month.
People were busy talking about whether quarterback Dak Prescott was holding back the Cowboys, and Prescott had indeed muddled through three games before Sunday.
But just as the vote's meaning was muddled by a historically low turnout, Puerto Ricans were delivering conflicting messages before a very skeptical Congress.
He is constantly muddled about the complexities of the problems Facebook faces, tries to please all sides and persistently fails to read a room.
Bloomberg is banking on muddled results from the first four contests — where he is either not competing or not on the ballot at all.
A year into his administration, Trump's positions on immigration remain muddled, despite insistence from the White House that he has clearly outlined his views.
Early on, the broadcast sounded muddled as the announcers, Lisa Byington and LaChina Robinson, struggled to be heard over the screams of the coaches.
But it does show that Facebook's answer isn't just muddled—it's also not the only option, no matter how many times Zuck insists otherwise.
She finished in a respectable third place in the Iowa caucuses, but a results-tallying meltdown muddled what could have been a good evening.
Chastened by the muddled outcome of the Mueller probe, many Democrats — with good reason — want to keep the storyline of the impeachment trial simple.
Seemingly legitimate concerns over security and sanction violations have been muddled by chest-puffing and braggadocio and large-headed leaders promising to do deals.
After one decade of terrible and traumatic violence in the 1990s came two of a muddled presidency that solved none of Algeria's fundamental problems.
As easy as it is to laugh off lawmakers' confusion about Facebook or look down at their muddled lines of questioning, it's also understandable.
Her arc is a familiar one — from curious, naive onlooker to aggrieved revolutionary — but the morality of it all is muddled, and intentionally so.
Now, even the obligatory check-in with the alien conspiracy, while still a muddled mess, at least feels like it has drive and purpose.
The regular season is more than an extravagant instrument-tuning session, but it is muddled and indeterminate in a way the playoffs are not.
Given that several of these have also been overwrought Oscar bait, the actual utility of remembrance becomes muddled when it comes to pop culture.
It is a prospect which would be more tantalising for science-fiction buffs if "Prometheus", his last "Alien" offering, hadn't been such a muddled disappointment.
BvS and Suicide Squad have a whole host of problems shared between them, but the most egregious issues relate to their muddled, often nonsensical narratives.
The dangers stem from the muddled mercantilism that lies behind his attitude to business and in the tactics that he uses to achieve his goals.
Count Arthur is the comic creation of the English comedian Steve Delaney, and this is a marvelous mock autobiography of a muddled music hall performer.
The move itself came after days of muddled responses from various administration officials, who insisted they could not resolve the issue through executive action alone.
The New York billionaire could win with a mere 25 percent of the vote in New Hampshire and still leave a muddled field behind him.
Trump celebrated the verdict on Wednesday, even if he somewhat muddled the reason for the WTO's decision and attempted to take some of the credit.
Whatever the reason, their muddled film lurches from lame puns to hamfisted political commentary, from dream sequences to imagery recycled from Mr Gilliam's previous work.
Their path to the playoff might still be muddled by that loss to Oklahoma, but right now they are the Big Ten&aposs best shot.
"Cruz's messaging is a muddled mess," Erick Erickson, a conservative commentator close to both Cruz and Rubio's campaigns who is neutral between them, wrote Monday.
The pioneer-savior message gets even more muddled when it's turned into a commodity, as in the gift shop of the Renwick during No Spectators.
Sometimes, the information left with the tape has been muddled or transposed by the previous hands it's passed through, and Salsburg has to play detective.
The muddled exposition to the huge lot of information viewers needed also made it "frantic," unfocused, and ultimately a failure, the Guardian concluded in 2013.
The healthy deterrence message soon got muddled when Beijing vehemently objected to the passage and Washington "explained" that it had been merely a weather diversion.
Or each could keep drawing attention to the nondisclosures of the other and hope the public is too muddled in its expectations to demand more.
Clinton is a weak candidate with a muddled message who faces an electorate in which a majority of voters do not trust or like her.
But the truth is that there is no method to Trumpism, just a convoluted policy that makes the whole world dizzy and America's message muddled.
Those who finished included Petra Kvitova, the No. 10 seed and one of several contenders in a muddled women's field hoping to upset Serena Williams.
But that's a muddled change: Why do the black Jets seem to feel more solidarity with their white fellows than with the Puerto Rican Sharks?
On the latest episode of "The Argument" podcast, Michelle Goldberg, Ross Douthat and I quizzed Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts about his party's muddled message.
The martini was strong—Edwards showcased the liquor's flavor, and accentuated it with a welcome tickle of chili and a subtle sweetness from muddled strawberries.
Before Mr. Xi's speech, Chinese economists who favor market reforms had openly voiced frustration with what they said was the slow, muddled pace of change.
Its launch was muddled by mischaracterizations about the project by President Trump, who announced on Friday that Google was building a nationwide coronavirus-testing website.
But while he opposed the Vietnam War, he would also hold no truck with what he called the "muddled infantile rantings" of the antiwar movement.
Predictably, those two become muddled online, so that the loudest voice in the digital room is often the one with the most power and influence.
The public is increasingly split along partisan lines, and the very idea of "Americanness" — who counts as an American and who doesn't — seems hopelessly muddled.
Yet before they could fully turn their attention to the contests looming before them, the contenders continued to clash over the muddled results in Iowa.
But the impact of Mr. Buttigieg's apparent win in Iowa was dampened by the delayed and muddled results that are still subject to a recanvass.
The unsuccessful mission against Shahlai makes the administration's argument for targeting Soleimani — who officials claim posed an imminent threat to U.S. lives — far more muddled.
The race for retiring Arizona Republican Jeff Flake's U.S. Senate seat is a muddled battleground this year, and that could be good news for Democrats.
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, is questioning comments from the party's leader vowing to coordinate with the White House, saying they've confused an already muddled process.
Directed with ambition and uncertainty by Dustin Wills, it's a muddled play that tries to tell too much, yet Nut isn't just any adult child.
This component is important because Republicans and fossil fuel companies successfully muddled the message for years, claiming climate change either wasn't happening, or wasn't manmade.
Internal turmoil driven by staff conflict and a muddled message made it that much harder to hang in the top tier with better-established rivals.
So, in Trump's muddled statements about drug pricing, he seems to be misidentifying where the blocks for innovation and cost drivers in the system are.
She knows how to anticipate her audience's desires for clarity and defy those expectations with perplexing and mystifying works that never seem muddled or meaningless.
It has muddled along for years, and in regulatory filings by National Beverage, LaCroix was often mentioned far behind two other brands, Shasta and Faygo.
Ultimately, when schools turn to surveillance as a public safety tool, they're also bringing the muddled issues of privacy, race, and fairness that comes with it.
Notably (nay, suspiciously) absent or muddled are the details of how and when that information made its way to the FBI, and what exactly was transmitted.
Perhaps because it's juggling so many ideas, the series feels muddled in its politics, and it's hard not to yearn for a greater sense of urgency.
For dessert, there are slightly damp farmer cheese pelmeni with cocoa-infused skins, nicely muddled with sour cherries and chocolate flakes that promptly wilt into sauce.
The muddled interviews were a failed victory lap over the BuzzFeed story, which prompted a number of House Democrats to raise the possibility of impeaching Trump.
The cold acoustics of the two-story 16th-century Vélez Blanco courtyard at the Met, with its marble walls and floors, muddled Linyekula's softly accented English.
Apple had a great thing going with the original iPod, for example, but kept adding bells and whistles that muddled the user experience with feature bloat.
The 2 brothers who claim Jussie Smollett staged the "attack" say he paid them $3,500 before the attack, but the reason for the payment is muddled.
Preparation for Green Bay is muddled slightly by Rodgers' questionable status, but Smith and teammates watched the Packers rally to beat the Bears on Sunday night.
You know the feeling: bending over backwards trying to take a photo of your new lipstick haul, only to get a muddled, lackluster image in return.
Obamacare, when it was finally set into law, was similarly muddled after months of negotiations, but it did have a basic philosophy about health care coverage.
"The conversation about immigration laws has become very muddled," Agarwal, the director of the University of Maryland's Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets, told Hill.
It was a muddled, half-hearted attempt to stop a damaging news cycle; the question is if it will be enough for Republicans to move on.
Though each of these points brought at least the Republican side of the audience to their feet, when seen in context it was all pretty muddled.
But all those explanations were abstract at best, muddled at worst, and they required levels of context that were impossible to convey in a Facebook post.
"The White House's muddled message highlighted the confusion sowed by Mr. Trump's on-the-spot decision to meet Mr. Kim," Mark Landler wrote in the Times.
"I muddled my way through and mostly was lucky, but there were times when a trip to the hospital was devastating to my budget," she said.
We ended up in a nearby emergency room where we muddled through with my conversational ability, a bilingual dictionary app, and the kind doctors and nurses.
Jurors' struggle to reach a unanimous decision could signal a potential mistrial down the line, a fitting coda for a trial with often conflicting, muddled testimony.
YouTube has to run this muddled cost-benefit analysis, accounting both the long- and near-term, on every content moderation policy and enforcement decision it makes.
Though slightly muddled in its own lofty aspirations, W|alls does strike more than a few important chords that just might resonate now more than ever.
The storytelling becomes muddled in the middle, and the suspense doesn't build as well as it ought to, but the winking undercurrent keeps the film watchable.
This is speculation, of course, but there is the sense that all those muddled individual histories make the Hornets uniquely suited to playing in this fashion.
"In lame ducks, all the rules seem to get muddled," said Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona, a Republican who counts himself among the lame-duck loathers.
Yet its sociopolitical concerns — primarily around indigenous land rights — are muted and muddled by a script that favors manly grunting and moody looks over clarifying dialogue.
Eventually, the plot narrows to a choice between love and success, but since the success doesn't really belong to Jack the stakes are a bit muddled.
As treatment was nearing its end, my hope of finally being released from its prison was muddled by a subtle despair about life beyond its walls.
"Uncertainty continued to permeate the response effort, however, amid muddled directives from the Trump administration and reports of some patients unable to access testing," they write.
Our muddled morning will clear up shortly, making way for blue skies and a high of 82 to ring in the longest day of the year.
A mixture of sugar and plenty of Angostura bitters is muddled at the bottom of the glass, then swirled about until it coats the entire inside.
For much of the afternoon, he plodded along, recording most changes without question, pushing back when he thought it harmed the flow or muddled a point.
One thing is clear: President Trump's approach to Iran is muddled by a number of cross-cutting factors which make any policy move on Iran unpredictable.
Link takes this thought in a very philosophical direction, but it set me wondering how much our thinking is muddled because we describe actions as things.
Or whether the testimony of Mr. Sondland, a muddled figure in this story with a decidedly situational memory, could bring any shared clarity to this matter?
Since New Hampshire's election is a primary rather than a caucus, there's less of a chance that things will get muddled as they did in Iowa.
His approach to issues like taxes and health care appears more muddled, but there is some suggestion that he is edging toward a mainstream economic approach.
Nowhere has the newly muddled nature of the party been more evident than in the fallout from the Republican failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
We sort of muddled our way into making a systemic stealth-ish game, but it was always a very bottom-up approach—the goose came first.
Democrats' increasingly muddled messaging on impeachment has not helped, as party leaders and liberal lawmakers have publicly disagreed over whether a meaningful impeachment inquiry is underway.
Lampooning the simple-mindedness of utopian web clichés was arguably part of Mr. Eggers's point, but much of that point is often muddled in the book.
As the F.B.I. investigation continues, a series of overlapping congressional inquiries into Russian activities to influence the election are advancing in a predictably muddled, partisan way.
The town hall easily outshone the muddled discussion in the paltry half-hour or so devoted to climate change across eight hours of official Democratic debates.
One could certainly argue that biologics are a unique market not subject to these generalized claims, but the truth of the matter is muddled at best.
In the span of 30 minutes, the hours of entertainment that had lead me to Quantum Break's conclusion were being muddled by a flash of frustration.
My own fear is that – as in the past – our muddled up geopolitical thinking, and ferocious lobbies, will again get in the way of sound trade negotiations.
Yeo's palette is subdued, almost ominous: muddled browns, blacks, and blues dominate the foreground, while a pale gray sfumato obscures the Oval Office furniture in the background.
Mr Simon muddled through by cracking jokes with his older brother, Danny, and together they went on to collaborate on scripts and sketches for television and radio.
With muddled and incomplete Iowa caucus results showing Buttigieg with a narrow lead over U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, New Hampshire's primary takes on added importance.
Still, in their muddled and heavy-handed way, governments are groping towards the idea of making the polluter pay by internalising the cost of responsible waste disposal.
Just Cause 4 took a lot of what made those games what they were and muddled them up with poor design and a bad, buggy backbone. Blech.
Even as the attention dies down, now that his All-Star status is settled, Scott said his focus would remain muddled both on the ice and off.
They sound a little colder compared to my Sony 1000X M3, and the finer details that I usually notice in my favorite songs tend to get muddled.
A few highlights from The Atlantic's Peter Nicholas:  THE NEXT BIG THING: The Democratic race for president is as muddled as ever following the New Hampshire primary.
Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn of the Labour Party has offered a muddled message on a second referendum, despite many in his party wanting him to support it.
So far, the consensus on Discovery among fans and critics has been muddled, and the first half of its launch season had a lot working against it.
After the release, basic questions of fact became muddled, like whether AMD chips are vulnerable to Spectre attacks (they are), or whether Meltdown is specific to Intel.
On top of that, a combination of mudslinging candidates and muddled manifesto pledges has meant a notable lack of enthusiasm for any of the main party leaders.
That efforts to change how people cook have fallen so short for so long can be blamed on weak markets, unco-ordinated charity interventions and muddled priorities.
An exhibition at the Barnes Foundation uses the theme of the contemporary flânuer to draw connections to its 19th-century collection, but the concept is deeply muddled.
The translation is a little muddled here, so let's take a look at the tweet (and a key response) so you have the right facts in hand.
Through the $6003 Canfields, the vocals are muddled together where on the $449 Audeze Sine headphones the soundstage opens up and there's distinct separation that's simply beautiful.
But our health is more muddled now—we live in an age of "obesity epidemics," horse-meat scandals, and fears over hidden food nasties and carcinogenic additives.
LHP Brandon Finnegan muddled through six innings Tuesday night against the same St. Louis team he blanked on two hits over six innings in his previous start.
The movie is a case of reading the room very wrongly, then slapping a lot of violence and muddled mythology on top as a means of distraction.
That's the main headline to take from "War Machine," a muddled satire about the war in Afghanistan awkwardly forced to camouflage its lead character behind a pseudonym.
The fact that the episode doesn't pack a bigger punch when it comes to both topics only speaks to how muddled its message gets along the way.
But their rhetoric failed to match the Chinese president's headline-grabbing speech a year earlier, in part because their sales pitches to investors further muddled the message.
For that, you can thank the impossibility of creating one-size-fits-all sets for the world's leading opera houses, muddled administrative leadership and a strained friendship.
If Victorian history were as muddled as that of early Renaissance art, generations of scholars would be puzzling their way through the coexistence of two distinct Lears.
People misattribute pithy quips to famous figures, sayings are altered and removed from their original contexts, and the record of who authored what line can be muddled.
We already know that HIV can be transmitted through sexual activity or shared needles, but the bodily factors that put us at risk can be more muddled.
Opera singing in English can often sound muddled because our language, with its abundance of diphthongs and schwa vowels, does not lend itself naturally to sustained notes.
The Investigatory Powers Bill is an attempt to bring together the UK's varied, and arguably muddled, surveillance powers under one legislative umbrella, and provide new powers too.
The exchange was a notable one — especially on the second night of debates, when the discussion often seemed muddled and confused and no candidate really stood out.
Moreover, the fact that American officials allowed the summit to play out without raising the issue — or informing Mr. Trump, apparently — sends another muddled message to Beijing.
And the senator has only muddled her own case when speaking with reporters this week — sometimes despite reminders from staff members that she need not answer questions.
On the one hand, the Grammys are always overstuffed and muddled, cramming as many performances and high-profile appearances as possible into three and a half(!) hours.
Thanks to tuition fees (now hovering at around $23,22013 a year), the academy muddled along, but its expertise was figurative art, which had fallen out of fashion.
A liquor purveyor from central New York, 1857 Spirits, offered shots of its Blue and Red small-batch vodka, suggesting a summer drink with muddled lemon basil.
Ms. Warren said the early returns in Iowa showed an appetite for her campaign of "big, structural change," even as official results were muddled by technical difficulties.
We're also looking for alternative routes to the truth, for sparks of imagination that can ignite or illuminate our own thinking when it gets muddled or stale.
No candidate exceeded 30% of the vote - a muddled outcome that could end up helping billionaire Michael Bloomberg, a moderate candidate who wasn't even on the ballot.
But "A Pink Chair (In Place of a Fake Antique)," the Wooster Group's muddled new homage to Mr. Kantor, is unlikely to incite much fervor either way.
"Harris' message has been muddled and her agenda unclear," writes Los Angeles Times columnist George Skelton, who has covered politics and government for more than 50 years.
This is where the muddled masses come by the virtual millions to establish just what the heck is really going on in a world turned upside down.
They both support massive, unrealistic policy proposals, because they reject the idea that politics is simply the muddled way we settle differences with people we disagree with.
Much of the hearing alternated between private equity-embracing, Warren-bashing Republicans followed by moderate Democrats, who muddled the message Warren has been trying to convey. Rep.
Having someone to chat to was a welcome intrusion into the muddled thought-field of my head which I had spent almost the entire meal wading through.
After a muddled, messy pilot, the series very quickly pulled itself together to become the kind of TV treat I looked forward to with every new week.
This production turns the remaining two acts, in which the convicted Manon is put aboard a ship bound for New Orleans, into a muddled, semiabstract representation of exile.
"Although incoming economic data were muddled, and the retail sales report was relatively weak, rates and stock markets rose through the week," said Mike Fratantoni, MBA's chief economist.
In 2018 we are in a world where alternative facts and the entire spectrum instead of what is a fact and what the viewpoint is, it's all muddled.
"It is the diary of a specific, complex, sometimes muddled teenager who owns her story, her life and her pleasure," Ms. Dargis wrote in The Times in August.
For Andrew Bacevich, a retired Army colonel and a professor of international relations at Boston University, the answers to these questions are muddled at best, depressing at worst.
Those positions ring hollow to many environmentalists who accuse the oil giant of having muddled the science on climate change decades ago in an effort to stymie action.
The process of catching cheaters in video games is muddled in secrecy: the more developers say, the better equipped deviants are to cheat more efficiently next time around.
The chorus of call-and-response voices in the Nigerian band's music sound distinct, not muddled together like they would on a pair of Beats or something worse.
Things soon started unraveling with the muddled disclosure of a Yahoo security breach dating back to 2014 in which information for at least 500 million accounts was compromised.
We muddled along for a while and then you made us go on a break, slept with one of the guys and then made us get back together.
The reaction on the internet was similarly muddled, with some comedians like Michael Che and Michael Ian Black commending his return and others, like Aparna Nancherla, expressing dismay.
The chapter "Ballerinas in a Box" mostly traces the artist Joseph Cornell's near-obsession with Dickinson, but Charyn takes such a circuitous path that the portrait becomes muddled.
Also inhabiting this muddled world of semi-human and semi-host is Bernard, whose brain (aka control unit) is damaged, causing him to become dissociated and increasingly robotic.
Reagan had to work with a Congress controlled by his political opponents, and the policies he enacted were more moderate and muddled than supply-side purists had hoped.
And yet to the faithful, it's a sign that the often muddled BMW can produce the kind of car it was famous for: pure, fun, and relatively affordable.
Jew and gentile, God and man, or (to recall the terms of her "amiable discussion" with Bloom), God and idol: These are categories that should not be muddled.
As it turned out, "Merrily" was a mess: the story was muddled (though the score remains beloved), audiences left in droves, and the show closed in twelve days.
However, on Wednesday night a growing number quickly endorsed the move as a path forward on investigating Russia's election interference in the midst of an increasingly muddled investigation.
"My prediction: the muddled message White House is sending to #SaudiArabia is not going to stop further #warcrimes from occurring in #Yemen," he added in a second tweet.
She left that to party lieutenants on television talk shows that spent hours dissecting the muddled outcome of the first big electoral test of Ms. Merkel's refugee policy.
I muddled through the fight, but came out the other end more frustrated than anything else, and wondering if my time was better spent returning to Metro: Exodus.
Anyone who's ever tried to make fiction around facts as terrible as the Shoah or characters as morally muddled as the wartime Swiss will understand it very well.
A full day of rain on Wednesday had muddled the schedule, and he had needed parts of two days to finish his semifinal against the top-ranked Djokovic.
The controversy over wetlands protection resulted in three decades of court fights, culminating in a fractured Supreme Court decision in 2006 that left the law a muddled mess.
The muddled projected outcome left Israel teetering at a critical juncture between an ever sharper turn to the right or a more moderate reset of the political order.
Star Trek: Discovery The season finale of "Star Trek: Discovery" was true to form: alternately impressive and head-scratching; a visual marvel and yet muddled; nostalgic and fresh.
As part of this, Trump also muddled messaging about what treatments are coming down the line, delivering a long series of remarks that were similarly hard to follow.
For the most part, he muddled through his role as crisis manager in chief with all the interest of a child forced to participate in the school play.
Sanders's messaging against Biden grew unfocused during the impeachment trial and stayed muddled in the run-up to South Carolina, which allowed Biden to get off the mat.
Start with assertive and complex flavors: Think whole, tart lemon muddled with a pinch of salt, or floral hibiscus tea perked up with funky, fermented apple cider vinegar.
The bottom line is a plot intended to make one consider life's big issues merely reminds us it's too short to sit through movies as muddled as this.
The effort to capture Mr. Franklin was muddled by the high number of murders in Los Angeles in the 1980s, which included homicides attributed to other serial killers.
The movie is crisply, sometimes stylishly shot (Madhie did the cinematography), but it's too muddled to be slick and too lacking in charm to establish any emotional stakes.
And the race for second through fifth place was muddled, a recurring theme in this primary season, in which no clear center-left alternative to Sanders has emerged.
News stories also highlighted the campaign's muddled leadership, including a struggle for power between Maya Harris, Harris's sister, and her longtime advisors in California, including her campaign manager.
Gail: It's a little different in that Trump was so muddled and contradictory during the campaign that there was some reason to wonder which version would pop up.
The justices will have a chance to explain when the government can display religious symbols on public land and clarify the court's somewhat muddled precedent on the issue.
This flimsy anticolonial stance may be designed to give the Italian government a patina of idealism, but it reveals a muddled understanding of African political and economic dynamics.
He seemed muddled at times during the campaign — declaring he would withdraw from the Paris climate accord, for example, before changing his position and promising to stay in.
Former President Clinton had been among those who have attributed his wife's poor performance more to her campaign's muddled strategy and lack of a clear message than to Mrs.
While the film's treatment of gender identity is muddled, Seed of Chucky is undeniably queer, something that baffled executives at Focus Features, who had acquired the property from Universal.
The Associated Press, which typically calls election results, said on Thursday that it was unable to declare a winner in Iowa, because of discrepancies that muddled the final tally.
At times, the latest season of AMC's The Walking Dead has felt muddled, as if new showrunner Angela Kang was confused about what she wanted the show to be.
"The administration's message is so muddled, it's hard to see how this move will affect change," Kristine Beckerle of Human Rights Watch said of the White House's latest announcement.
But his muddled ideology could still present a threat to President Joko Widodo, commonly known as Jokowi, who is likely to seek a second five-year term in 22014.
"The outlook is so muddled by political and global factors that it is hard to expect a major recovery" in business investment this year, the Credit Suisse economists said.
MANCHESTER, N.H. — A new feeling of urgency hit the voters who greeted the muddled, squabbling, bleary-eyed Democratic presidential field flying into New Hampshire after Iowa's inconclusive caucus night.
While Taylor's book can feel abstract and sometimes muddled, she wants to make it clear that radical self-love isn't a far-off state for which we're always searching.
In the Daily Telegraph Paul Hayward blamed Hodgson for his muddled team selection, condemning the inclusion of Raheem Sterling, a player whose confidence, Hayward said, was "shot to bits".
What everyone seems to agree on is that the road ahead will be muddled with provocative moral questions, before machines and the market take over the wheel from us.
And the lack of planning could have disastrous results, including muddled responses to cyberattacks and poorly structured Defense Department cyber teams, several senators told National Security Agency Director Adm.
TV's "Rising" on Thursday that the conservation surrounding immigration in the U.S. "has become very muddled," and that Americans need to remember what "we stand for" as a nation.
What should have been structured as a series of linked assassination missions of escalating intricacy was instead rendered as an interminable exercise in muddled action and badly explained lore.
It also released a report providing some forensic data linking Russia to the breaches, although it has been widely condemned by the security community as muddled and overly-broad.
Still, if Rubio stumbles in New Hampshire, the GOP race will likely fail to clarify, and will instead continue to be the chaotic, muddled mess it's been for months.
Its messaging became muddled, strategists said, with supporters claiming that the plan would do everything: create jobs, benefit the environment and even boost the health and wellness of residents.
What started out in her introduction as a shrewd assessment of our fractured political situation turns into a muddled argument about what Americans, mainly liberals, need to do next.
Experiments on matter at ultrahigh pressure are difficult to perform, often with conflicting results, which "made for a picture that has looked to date fairly muddled," Dr. Celliers said.
The rise, in part, reflected changes in the way infections in Hubei are counted, but the latest figures confirmed warnings that the true scale of the epidemic remains muddled.
But the internet has muddled traditional ideas about government's role in regulating the news, said Martha A. Garcia-Murillo, a professor who specializes in information regulation at Syracuse University.
Serge Gainsbourg on vinyl, quirky owner doling out gratis black Russians for no apparent reason, eclectic clientele all unabashedly chatting with friends and strangers in muddled French and English.
In addition to mood, noir is famous for labyrinthine plots (please raise your hand if you have figured out "The Big Sleep"), but the one here is just muddled.
Through everything — through the forests, through the ravines, through troops of marauding lions, through famine, through war, through five years of excoriating parliamentary debate, muddled and marched the railway.
Energy-related shares weighed on the broader market on Friday after oil prices sold off steeply overnight on worries about oversupply and an increasingly muddled outlook for global growth.
The characters names (like Rycroft Philostrate and Vignette Stonemoss) and attempt at fantasy world-building added up to a muddled mess instead of a compelling take on the genre. 
Until that time, small companies will have only a muddled sense of how they might be vulnerable to the rule, and compliance continues to be something of a puzzle.
Joker, from director Todd Phillips, landed four nominations (for score, director, best drama, and Joaquin Phoenix's performance); the film is a muddled but angry look at inequality and elitism.
Likewise, the opera "Five," about the notorious miscarriage of justice in the rape case involving the so-called Central Park Five, is hampered by muddled intentions and awkward execution.
Observing the muddled madness that is By the Sea, knowing full well that its stars are a ticking time bomb in real life, is quite unlike any other cinematic experience.
Donald Trump campaign adviser Rudy Giuliani muddled through his task Sunday morning: defend his candidate on the Sunday shows in the aftermath of the "grab 'em by the pussy" tape.
A senior intelligence official told NBC News the message ultimately sent to the Russians was "muddled" — with no bright line laid down and no clear warning given about the consequences.
Instead, these films make such a muddled stew of how LGBT people fight to accept themselves that they wind up suggesting the process is a permanent condition of being queer.
Bernie Sanders held off Pete Buttigieg in New Hampshire on Tuesday, slowing the former mayor's charge and asserting himself as the tentative frontrunner in a still-muddled Democratic primary field.
But the host of Molto Mario, and former Iron Chef regular, voiced a somewhat muddled philosophy on the move to raise minimum wages nationally and in various states and cities.
The president also gloated this week as the Democratic Party's caucuses in Iowa descended into chaos and ended in a muddled result that suggests a long primary battle to come.
But when it turns out that the people we've been rooting for are as sour and corrupt as the villains, the point of the show can become a little muddled.
Mr. Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor whose campaign is fueled by a multibillion-dollar personal fortune, conferred with advisers on Tuesday morning about the muddled results in Iowa.
On "No More Parties In LA," West raps in a muddled Spanish accent that he "feels like Pablo" when he is working on various ventures or is in the news.
On trade with China, peace talk with North Korea and war talk with Iran, its policies are defined as much by a resentful, audacious style as by their muddled aims.
For while power has become increasingly centralised in both parties in recent decades, the Democrats have muddled that transition by maintaining some of the architecture of a more fragmented past.
On the Republican side, things are more muddled still: Cruz is in front with around 28 percent, but Rubio is close to catching up with Trump, 23 to 24 percent.
All of those present interviewed by VICE News described hearing or seeing shots, but the boat was still shrouded in darkness, and the details are muddled by fear and confusion.
Fusion now is at best passé—associated with muddled, nonsensical mashups from the 90s—and at worst problematic, with chefs borrowing carelessly from cuisines with which they barely hold ties.
But with all the information out there, it's also hard to figure out what's actually true and what may be a muddled interpretation — because seriously, student loans can be confusing.
Sharpton said the reason why Clinton has not been able to pull away from Sanders in the race is because of a muddled message when it comes to Wall Street.
Still, the entertainment industry's more aggressive embrace is sudden enough that it could create a backlash among attendees, especially if VidCon's celebration of online video appears muddled as a result.
In 2015, the exhibition was "China: Through the Looking Glass," and it created some politically incorrect moments when celebrities and the designers who dressed them got their Asian references muddled.
At the heart of their disagreement is an apparent reference from Trump in the audio to paying with cash, although the audio is muddled and each side disputes Trump's meaning.
We figured out how to get into college despite low expectations from college counselors, emerged with student debt and muddled through first, second and third jobs before finding our way.
They're for abortion rights without exception and for public funding of abortion, a maximalist stance that thrills pro-choice activists but is nowhere near the muddled middle on the issue.
While the administration's plan was portrayed largely as a departure from President Obama's management of the conflict, the strategy contained few distinguishing features and muddled its ends, ways, and means.
Priebus brought in White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who has fumbled regularly, offering muddled and contradictory messages and exacerbating the testy relationship between President Trump and the news media.
In an 83-page filing, Mr. Blagojevich argued that the line between the legal trading of political favors and bribery has become muddled, potentially exposing politicians everywhere to criminal charges.
Set in England in the late 1950s, this tale of love in its many muddled forms is directed by Austin Pendleton and stars several members of the resident acting company.
Set in England in the late 24212s, this tale of love in its many muddled forms is directed by Austin Pendleton and stars several members of the resident acting company.
Set in England in the late 00s, this tale of love in its many muddled forms is directed by Austin Pendleton and stars several members of the resident acting company.
Making his Met debut as Scarpia, the baritone Claudio Sgura muddled through some lower passages, turning the character into something of a functionary, instead of an evil force of nature.
To the Editor: I am not surprised that the "messaging" of the pro-public-transit movement in Nashville "became muddled," contributing to the defeat of a $5.4 billion transit plan.
What the Palestinians have to show for these 25 years, however, is a much more muddled ledger — and a cautionary tale of how statehood delayed can harden into statehood denied.
In 1995 Mr. Gold applied to the doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, saying he wanted to research how pension finance had come to be so muddled.
Then platters arrive, heaped with food to go: rice salads; vegetable salads; a pile of slow-roasted lamb muddled with hunks of sweet pumpkin, black-eyed peas, yogurt and hazelnuts.
Bloomberg, with an estimated net worth of around $61 billion, said after the muddled results from the Iowa caucuses that he would ramp up his budget for ads and staff.
Quarantine policy seems muddled too: people from Hubei province, the viral epicentre, are not welcome, but Hongkongers who travelled there can return, as can visitors from other parts of China.
American commanders have requested guidance on dealing with an attack from those armed groups and others from Iran and the Syrian government, but officials say they have received muddled direction.
Ideological terms such as conservatism, and to a lesser extent liberalism, have become so muddled with unfamiliarity, that it's anyone's guess what it means to embrace either of the two.
At the same time, the fitful and at times rhetorically muddled transition from the known (Obamacare) to the unknown ("something terrific") has risked throwing the health care industry into turmoil.
She said that she sees New Hampshire as a crucial step toward electing Sanders and that the muddled results and multiple candidates declaring victory has shaken up the race here.
If the show's concluding fable about the stalking of a sacred blue stag seems a bit metaphorically muddled, it offers a signal image that captures this vibrant show's distinctive tone.
On its face, the comments suggest a fundamental misunderstanding of how cybersecurity investigations work, combined with muddled and broadly debunked conspiracy theories about Ukraine's involvement in the DNC breach investigation.
Ms. Vizguerra's situation — first the government ordered her to leave, then it allowed her to stay — is reflective of Obama-era immigration policies that his critics called muddled and inconsistent.
Go deeper: Years of muddled U.S. strategy worsened fallout in Syria U.S. exit from Syria leaves civilians and Kurdish fighters at risk Ceasefire in Syria's Idlib province brings fragile reprieve
A searching quality permeates Julien's work that we are here invited to experience a nostalgia for something long gone, muddled with an air of mystery as to what's to come.
Instead, the video was taken down, as part of YouTube's muddled post-suicide forest world, where the company has yet to wrestle with the consequences of being a media company.
Grindelwald's climactic monologue is just as muddled: He preaches to his followers that they must oppress nonmagical people because World War II is on the horizon and threatens to destroy everyone.
A row erupted between Nikki Haley and the White House Tuesday after Donald Trump's economic adviser claimed the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. had muddled her facts about new Russian sanctions.
It was not only insulting to Indigenous peoples and muddled the mainstream perception of how sovereign tribal nations determine citizenship, but also played directly into the United States' persistent racial essentialism.
His decision comes as the company searches for a replacement for former CEO Travis Kalanick — a process that has been muddled by reports of Kalanick's desire to return to the company.
Eight years removed from the White House, Obama's lasting legacy and his status as the most popular Democratic in the country is one of the few certainties in this muddled primary.
One of the clips, which was shared by President Donald Trump on Twitter, was edited in a way that muddled and repeated her words, making her appear confused or even ill.
Although Japan has muddled through decades of sluggish growth, its lack of external debt and a still wealthy society makes it an attractive haven for investors scampering from global risk aversion.
Lime Juice 3-4 Jalapeno Slices, muddled ½ teaspoon agave, to taste Top with Soda Water Add ice, garnish with fresh grapefruit, and rim glass with half salt & half sugar Serves one.
Mr. Sanders held a similar lead in a Quinnipiac poll this month, and other groups have projected mixed outcomes, leaving the race in Iowa muddled before the caucuses there on Monday.
Forty-eight hours later, Trump sought to clarify his muddled remarks, saying he wanted "school resource officers" to have guns in schools while slamming rival Hillary Clinton's criticism of his stance.
While I only ever did one of those things (yes, poetry), I recognized Ginger's independent spirit in myself and used her as my guide as I muddled my way through puberty.
In today's muddled financial markets, amid complex financial products, consumers of financial services have been led to believe that an advisor is an advisor and that their fees are their fees.
The more you read about aspartame, stevia, sucralose, and all the other sugar substitutes that food manufacturers are pumping into the stuff we eat, the more muddled the health picture becomes.
Republicans hoping to pull this off, however, are going to have to be adroit in separating themselves from Trump, the man who muddled all these party divisions in the first place.
Last year, Madonna danced alongside a group of men dressed like Satanic goats, while Pharrell performed his impossible-to-avoid single "Happy" and made a muddled statement on race in America.
Yet the line drawn from those harrowing events to today is partially muddled by a misplaced focus, dwelling on a night of brutal police violence but shortchanging its equally significant aftermath.
It might have been a cleaner hit had she not muddled her good points on Trump (she had several, such as on stamina) and if she had something new to announce.
First, it is a unification bout, which will presumably merge two champions into one and help bring clarity to the muddled school of contenders swimming in the sea of title belts.
There was the inane unoriginality of Life's Too Short, the muddled mawkishness of Derek and, most dispiritingly of all, the self-defacing mediocrity that was David Brent: Life on the Road.
It might help us recognize how when straightness is the assumed default, gestures of queer intimacy get muddled, blurred, and erased amidst all that platonic friendships have been stretched to encompass.
But Trump muddled the walk-back by saying that "other people" also could have been involved, a statement similar to remarks he's made in the past casting doubt on Russia's involvement.
After Morey's tweet, and despite some muddled attempts by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to smooth things over, China's state-run broadcaster CCTV halted NBA broadcasts to its 640 million NBA fans.
Somewhere in the distance, Harry Nilsson's jangly "Gotta Get Up" starts playing, and we hear a cacophony of muddled voices, a sign that merriment is taking place right outside the bathroom.
Its messages were muddled, its shared agenda boiled down to hating Hillary Clinton, many of its speakers didn't want to talk about the candidate and one declined even to endorse him.
And while some critics were wowed by its style, it was hard to get past the pretentious excess (beginning with the event that sets the plot in motion) and muddled message.
Frankly, many people have got it muddled and are using race and religion as ways to explain what's wrong in the world, when they have nothing to do with the problem.
Not that that has stopped Google trying, though, even as it has been muddled in its strategy too — spreading its messaging efforts around quite a bit (with false starts like Allo).
Telegraph Avenue was the same as it had always been, muddled, obscene, in an endless fall from a distant glory Bruno hadn't known and wouldn't have enjoyed in the first place.
Even if the South Koreans faithfully relayed Mr. Kim's offer, the muddled aftermath of Mr. Trump's surprise announcement illustrates how little control he has over the momentum behind the diplomatic opening.
The muddled data on wages was a potent reminder that even the strongest job market in a generation has not been robust enough to reverse a longstanding pattern of lagging pay.
Yet they are hands-down the liveliest element of "Selkie," Krista Knight's muddled new dramedy about domestic abuse, directed by Matt Dickson for Dutch Kills Theater Company, at the Wild Project.
What a wondrous miracle, to wake up, memory muddled, slightly unmoored, with just the task of relearning yourself, your friends, your hometown nestled along the ruggedly beautiful shores of Lake Superior.
The uncertainty surrounding the whole ordeal played into the criticism Trump's team has been facing all week — that its response to the coronavirus outbreak has been uncoordinated and its messaging muddled.
It's emblematic of the moment we're in — our sexual morality and ethics have been changing, but we're still caught in a confusing, muddled space between the old world and the new.
The possibility of a full national shutdown has become more muddled in recent days, as President Donald Trump has broken with advisors and called for social distancing guidelines to be lifted.
But he noticed when Mayor Eric M. Garcetti, his successor at City Hall, offered criticism of his campaign, suggesting that money had been wasted and that his message had been muddled.
With Mariana Alfaro The unforced errors in President Trump's address to the nation on Wednesday night captured in miniature his uneven, muddled and often confused response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Unlike in Iowa's impossibly muddled caucus system, which caused so much difficulty last week, voters in New Hampshire will go to their polling places and cast ballots in a straightforward primary.
In its aftermath, we're left with a national race led by two very old and extraordinarily risky general election candidates whose weaknesses were underscored by Iowa's results, muddled as they were.
According to her, we're all muddled on this score; we think of those markers of humanity — language, consciousness, art — as being ways of perceiving (or depicting) nature, not as its products.
The muddled message of Hillary campaigning as a feminist while being a key cog in Weinstein's complicity machine was summed up nicely in a tweet Wednesday by The Times's Amy Chozick.
He has muddled through explanations of his treatment of Anita Hill when she accused Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment, at times stopping himself midsentence to abandon a line of defense.
An archive of this segment (and all of Square Enix's E3 streams) is currently available on Twitch for anyone in search of one final dose of intense and muddled E3 feelings.
Investors turned wary following a volatile session in global markets overnight as the European Central Bank muddled its easing message by suggesting it was running out of room to cut interest rates.
Add the confusing haze of orientation—an already fraught, unstable moment—to the muddled nature of ARGs, and the connections between the players and designers could easily have become manipulative and cruel.
A twisted look at life in America after the 2016 election, it's got all the usual scares and camp, but—as Entertainment Weekly rightly noted—it can occasionally devolve into muddled satire.
" Messina advised campaigns that they need to refine their message following the muddled Iowa caucuses last week to "contrast themselves with rivals, highlight Iowa results to show viability, or address perceived weaknesses.
Compare the muddled introduction of the Apple Watch to the confident, fitness-focused Series 2 announcement last year — it's important to explain to people exactly why they might want a given product.
SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco jurors are hearing the muddled confession of the Mexican national on trial for the fatal shooting of Kate Steinle, whose death touched off a fierce debate over immigration.
It's hard to believe that the same team was responsible for the muddled "Buzzsaw," a film that tries to combine art-world satire and horror movie scares, ultimately failing on both counts.
What is more, decades of double-talk over Article 9 have muddled the debate that Japan ought to be having over what role it should play in maintaining regional and global security.
If St. Louis is to make it to the postseason, Wacha will have to resemble the All-Star he was last year and not the inconsistent version who has muddled through 2016.
In certain moods, their interpretation of the events of the previous year had the ring of conspiratorial fancy—not because their thinking was muddled but because it was, if anything, too crystalline.
The muddled messages were an echo of the vice presidential debate from earlier this month where a flurry of insults, interruptions, and outright lies helped obscure a pair of unintentionally revealing exchanges.
Oddly enough—given that we're talking about pro wrestling, an implied "oddly enough" belongs at the start of every sentence—Ambrose's win only left things more muddled at the end of Battleground.
It also clarifies the individual instruments and song components so you can pick out the piano, the snare drum, and the bass guitar, rather than hearing them muddled together in the background.
As enjoyable as "Our Kind of Traitor" is in its smartly paced and irreverent opening half-hour, it is let down by some muddled, choppily edited action sequences in its later stages.
While Season 2 was a bold experiment that saw Esmail dabbling in different genres and tones as director of all 12 episodes, the story was sometimes as muddled as our unreliable narrator.
With the direct intervention last week of Zuma's likely successor Deputy-President Cyril Ramaphosa and Western Cape Premier Helen Zille, the muddled responses of competing bureaucracies are at last being pulled together.
When Cohen tells Trump, "We'll have to pay," Trump is heard saying "pay with cash" but the audio is muddled and it's unclear whether he suggests paying with cash or not paying.
Stocks on Wall Street had a muddled session on Tuesday, as investors worked through a large batch of corporate earnings from a range of companies including Gilead Sciences, McDonald's and Texas Instruments.
The ambiguity of that muddled response is playing out in the unlikely setting of one of the world's most glittering playgrounds for the rich, the Riviera, and in its craggy Alpine hinterland.
Sterling slid to a ten-week low on Monday morning after May said she was not interested in keeping "bits of membership" of the EU and denied her government's strategy was muddled.
Washington (CNN)A consensus emerged Tuesday at the White House and Mar-a-Lago about how to clean up the administration's suddenly muddled plans to crack down on Russia: Blame Nikki Haley.
The left tends to want to include a lot of different people and a lot of different issues, and the result is a more muddled message that is just harder to communicate.
Plum soju and an excellent single malt Japanese whiskey is a solid start to this julep, but it only gets better with the spearminty, anise-y flavors the muddled shiso leaves bring.
I muddled my way through and ended up with a plain, beautiful pie that tasted even better the next day, chilled, when the custard turned creamy and dense and the onions mellowed.
But if pilots did not know exactly what system was in place, or that the data being fed into the system was wrong, their reactions could be fatally muddled, aviation experts said.
This has been muddled by his penchant to rapidly contradict himself and, well, lie (or, if you prefer, bullshit) and by his obvious lack of knowledge about public policy of any kind.
By now, Downton's critical pedigree is so muddled that no one quite knows whether it's a good show or a bad show; after all, it's been here for such a long time.
"The few people in Bonn who were interested in this speech heard a muddled explanation of Trump's dangerously incoherent climate policy," said John Coequyt, global climate policy director at the Sierra Club.
He holds his own on the defensive side and could easily step in as an immediate starter unlike the occasional European projects over the years that have somewhat muddled the continent's reputation.
How puny is my vocabulary in Hindi, I realized, how muddled my thinking, how equivocal and hesitant I become; it's as if something of myself as a child has been preserved there.
The country has thus far muddled through with Trump at the helm better than Americans had any right to hope, but the emergence of the occasional crisis is a constant in government.
Ms. De Keersmaeker is fond of giving her performers movement that takes them to the floor — the leads writhe in passion; the ensemble rolls and whirls — but the results can be muddled.
Last night, she was pressed on her own record, and muddled through, with a point-by-point explanation of how controversial cases from her tenure as Hennepin County attorney should be reexamined.
The U.S. Treasury market as well as global bond markets are of particular moment to one portfolio manager, as it appears there are muddled messages about where interest rates are going globally.
Most voters seem to have found this idea confusing (it's what Al Gore's much-mocked "lockbox" was trying to describe), and combined with intraparty disagreement, it led to a very muddled message.
But many Democrats believe that the past moves to the center have so muddled the message that only a move to the left will clearly distinguish the party in the minds of voters.
I thought that maybe he was functioning off of the ol' "have sex and die" rule, but it got muddled when he went after our girl Jamie Lee Curtis, who did nothing wrong!
These muddled up and agitated minds in Paris, Berlin and Brussels will just create more chaos and alienate more people who were looking at the EU as a haven of peace and prosperity.
The dangers stem, first, from the muddled mercantilism that lies behind his attitude to business, and, second, in the tactics—buying off and attacking individual companies—that he uses to achieve his goals.
That's a dynamic lawmakers are very familiar with on a national level, where attempts to address the health care system have been muddled in partisan politics and faced serious pushback from private interests.
I didn't know if I should head to the barricades myself (the opposition's politics, beyond the demand for free elections, were muddled), but I knew I wanted to be there when change happened.
Some of it won't necessarily keep you from losing your cool, like our rundown of Twitter's muddled response to the president's racist tweets or the failure of Facebook's supposedly automated moderation systems. Sorry!
And it's still noteworthy to see not just health care, but the ACA specifically, become such a rallying cry for ambitious Democrats, after so many years of muddled messaging and changing the subject.
And for various reasons (some legitimate, some deeply muddled), a carbon tax has come to be seen by the green left as a simpler, more virtuous, more authentic alternative to cap-and-trade.
It proves that a certain kind of escapism can be smart, clever, and confident — often more so than games that grasp at issues they can't properly work through, like the muddled Mankind Divided.
But the way those apps are discovered in mobile stores can be a bit muddled now that Google has updated and iterated on its design language countless times across its myriad product lines.
President Trump muddled his North Korea strategy further over the weekend when he appeared to undercut his own secretary of State, driving more concerns from experts that the administration has no clear strategy.
But amid this muddled, internecine conflict, one thing is clear: Conservative attempts to tear Francis down, while absolving his predecessors and blaming a global sexual crisis on gay priests, are sinister and abusive.
Variety described Alien 3 as "a muddled effort that offers little more than visual splendor to recommend it," while the New York Times complained that the film was too dark and too implausible.
The plot gets a little muddled at the end, but I like that it plays with traditional Nollywood tropes (a Shakespearean visit from a ghost and ill omens) while avoiding simplistic moral lessons.
By 2014, as I muddled through the mess that was the Sochi Olympics, with its displaced citizenry, disappearing dogs, dilapidated accommodations and distressing price tag, my emotional tether to the competition was fraying.
With the muddled market outlook, several market strategists suggest splitting the difference: adding to positions in defensive sectors while looking for opportunities within beaten-up areas of the market, such as small caps.
Mr. Steil will face Randy Bryce, the Democratic winner, whose compelling back story as an ironworker has been muddled by revelations of arrests for drugs and alcohol and failing to pay child support.
What was left was a muddled draw with one principal attraction: a possible semifinal matchup between top-seeded Rafael Nadal and No. 3 Roger Federer, who had never played at the U.S. Open.
Yet as more artists — especially those who are not black — wade into this sensitive territory, the line between thoughtful examination and clumsy exploitation can become muddled: How are the creators tackling these issues?
The path to election reform is somewhat muddled; most rules governing contribution limits and the matching funds program that provides public money to candidates are derived from legislation passed by the City Council.
On one level it refers to a convoluted penultimate-act conspiracy to take down Lindbergh (the series departs from the novel on the specifics in a subplot involving Alvin that is frankly muddled).
The courts have so muddled the interpretation of Section 101 that something sufficiently concrete that you can literally drop it on your foot can now be considered an abstract concept ineligible for patenting.
At a time when facts are muddled, spun and cherry-picked to fit political strategies, the Justice Department stands as a crucial institution dedicated to showing the public the way things really are.
Narcissism is hardly a hindrance to an artist this talented (who, as a child, wrote a fan letter to Leonardo DiCaprio), but here he seems off his game, his vision muddled and fragmented.
But muddled communication of a new strategy, 13 pre-tax income targets that many felt were optimistic to begin with and concerns the bank needs more cash have undermined his credibility, experts said.
CreditSights' Simon Adamson said in a note published on Monday that while the measures appeared to reflect "muddled thinking" on strategy, the capital impact further supported his market perform recommendation on Deutsche's bonds.
Chapters outline the foundation of democracy and its future, but also the muddled execution (as in the aptly titled "Congress: Quagmire of Freedom"), along with sidebars and graphics that double as sight gags.
The International Monetary Fund was set to start talks with Argentina about economic policy, with the local bond market muddled after a failed debt auction and unilateral reprofiling of principal payments this week.
Where so many institutions are muddled in their political stances and completely silent on the topic of guns, this Museum presents the seemingly indisputable thesis that America is great because America has guns.
It's hard to imagine even one of these seven songs making the cut for Pablo, which, again, is a muddled album far below the standards of even its most rushed and impulsive predecessors.
Trump and White House staff have repeatedly muddled their message on the future of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which the administration plans to fully sunset by March 5.

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