Примери за muddying

• They see this as muddying the distinction between prepositions and conjunctions that 'traditional grammar' upholds (pp. 1012-13).

• The stress is on flexibility, mobility, mediations, machinations, intrigue, sometimes invisibility, and often an ' intentional muddying of the waters ' (p. 113).

• Such muddying of the theoretical waters can be valuable.

• This article has made me reflect on how far we can push our institutions into muddying their ivory towers with the mess of reallife work practices.

• I am satisfied that the first aim is not necessary and might well have the effect of muddying the law rather than clarifying it.

• Research-minded doctors would sense the need to move carefully and would see the importance of not muddying the evidence by using techniques indiscriminately.

• If there are no secret reasons, it is merely confusing the issue and muddying the waters to hint at them now.

• This appears to be muddying the coastal waters even further than is normally the case across international boundaries.

• This amendment would avoid muddying the waters in the relationship between the police and the public, including past offenders.

• Will they tell us, without muddying the waters by referring always to the pupil/teacher ratio?

• Nor, indeed, would it be true to say that we are muddying waters which have remained undisturbed for years.

• That has to be done carefully and without muddying the waters.

• Therefore, the muddying of the issue as regards daylight and nightlight is not relevant because there are more nights than dark days.

• I will tell him who was muddying the water a moment ago.

• The disagreement may in part stem from a muddying of two distinct issues.