puzzling

sent confusing signals to Iraq; perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it; a puzzling statement.

How features of an object are bound into a unique percept is one of the puzzling problems in the cognitive and neurosciences.

When the little girl was asked such a puzzling question, she stood there with a surprised look on her face.

As for your marriage, which is a puzzling story, may let me ignite or give up the idea of keeping contact with you in such a way.

There was a puzzled look on her face because a puzzling problem puzzled the little girl .

He walked home slowly while talking to himself and kept puzzling over why the train hadn't waited for him for two minutes more .

What I've been puzzlIng about all day, " she saId after a sIp, " Is why leslIe Is throwIng In the towel now.

Even more puzzling was the fact that, in the direction which had better conduction, the resistance decreased as the current was increased.

Statisticians are puzzling over the role in this crisis of internet shopping and how much it is eroding high-street business.

What expatiated by him are the puzzling, bemusement and distress of the generation of youths, who grown up in today's society, to the world.

he walked home slowly and talking to himself and kept puzzling over why the train hadn't waited for him for another 2 minutes.

The basic nature of the plot is commonplace but, when it is a look at public figures, it is intriguing and puzzling.

This kind of experimentation usually evolves into masturbation, but children often receive a puzzling message from parents at this point.

One of the most puzzling phenomena toemerge from the various ongoing conflicts in and around the Middle East is thesuicide bomber.

"THE British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be, " Queen Elizabeth II was once overheard saying.

Finally, after months of puzzling, I concluded that Houdon had not created the face in the bust freehand .

The hue and cry about death duties is all the more puzzling since they affect few people.

Tax authorities have enormous problems puzzling out these structures. If they can, it is often hard to characterise them as shams.

The puzzling thing was that we had tested compatibility with this equipment many times before release.

So it is puzzling that Cambodia, though it has expressed reservations about Xayaburi, is not up in arms about it.

The boom and bust nature of economics is one of the most puzzling aspects of the modern world.

Charlson had been puzzling over what unknown particles provide the nuclei on which moisture condenses, forming clouds.

To their joy, they found a close correlation with what the pilots had recorded - with one puzzling exception.

Masses of students attended the conference because professor Wang is well prepared to answer the puzzling problem .

It was a puzzling remark and still leaves me a little puzzled.

On the face of it, this presidential reaction, though traditional among chief executives, is rather puzzling.

There was onething puzzling Tom. He did not know why there are so many people in the book store.

These specimens fall at the young end of a very puzzling million-year period in hominin evolution.

One of science's most puzzling mysteries - the disappearance of the Neanderthals - may have been solved.

He was puzzling over the map, unwilling to ask for directions.

It is really puzzling . It seems that no numbers ever marked in the buildings along those old streets . At least no obvious signs , I find.

But meeting a real Harry Potter can be a little puzzling for the kids.

The unemployment rate has come down anyway, more due to a puzzling lack of labour force growth than to above-potential output growth.

Are puzzling, "Woman Bao Qing 7" According to what claims to be able to do the treatment of various gynecological diseases?

Its actually not all that puzzling as to why all the girls from LA are as sexy as they are.

These puzzling shifts and transformations in Mr. Franklin were due to the effect on him of his foreign training.

While we're used to hearing about dogs learning to help the blind or search out injured people, Oscar's case is more puzzling.

One of the very first days after arriving in Shanghai I saw a large billboard-poster advertising a paradoxical, puzzling phenomenon.

Inflation has become a great difficult question puzzling every government all over the world.

All of this still doesn't answer the most puzzling question of WHY Steve Jobs chose to drive plate less.

And though the seasonal connection is still puzzling, both spring and autumn bring an increase in geomagnetic storms.

Puzzled by his puzzling problem, I didn't know how to answer, so there was a puzzled expression on my face.

PROF. : Tell me what's puzzling you, and we'll try to figure it out.

On the surface, the purchase looks somewhat puzzling.

Later, the results of this puzzling management study led to a revolution.

from two levels, and in practice for contemporary Chinese architecture, it could make for getting out of the puzzling of aphasia.

It seems to me, the English language is equally, if not more, puzzling in many ways.

For some, however, Mitterand's reaction is puzzling -- including one of the libraries concerned.

The Nenets report other curious changes - fewer mosquitoes and a puzzling increase in gadflies.

It's really kind of puzzling. Nadal's knee, it's happened before, he's run into this problem, he's got tendonitis of the knee. . .

Either one of these possibilities was puzzling.

Of all the buzz around the Beijing Olympics, the most puzzling is the idea that the Games will "introduce" Americans to China.

He puzzled that men found so much to write about, and, puzzling, dozed in his chair.

And right now it's very intriguing, very puzzling, but it doesn't quite match up to the Sagan criterion.

Anything you think in your head, the ghost will know, because he is you. So make sure its something thats puzzling.

Until now, be reminded of that affair that occurrence, I still keep feeling puzzling.

Why he chose her-how they continued to suit each other-is a problem puzzling enough.

Blue trees are not the only initially puzzling thing about Japan.

It's puzzling, I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like this before.

Certainly, the official account of events is puzzling and incomplete.

A puzzling and troubling finding is relatively high rates of lung cancer among nonsmoking women in parts of Pacific Rim countries.

Such an understanding underlies our whole rather puzzling emphasis on the challenging business of missile defense.

But it is puzzling why market measures of a bank's risk should be at the centre of financial regulation.

One thing was puzzling him, a little thing that would have puzzled the world had it known.

Experts are puzzling over a possible link to an undersea quake thousands of miles away in the Pacific Ocean on September 29th.

But some of the remarks by GOP candidates have been particularly puzzling to China watchers.

These were nice questions, but Isabel 's arrival put a stop to his puzzling over them.

We propose an alternative retrieval-based theory that accommodates the recent data, as well as other puzzling related observations.

Isn't it puzzling how, instead of helping them, as you might expect, it seems only to make them suffer more?

Thanks to Google Earth and puzzling new TSA rules, all you need to know to get on a plane these days is the color of your house.

Like a human, the program that does the puzzling is capable of learning.

Akerlof and Shiller invoke "fairness" and "money illusion" to explain the puzzling behavior of employment and wages in a depression.

When visitors from abroad undertake to describe the American Character, the results are frequently puzzling to Americans.

The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten.

There still remains, however, the puzzling disparity between the household employment number and the payroll number.

The operations are referenced by constants, but their actual values are a little puzzling.

The results of these calculations are as puzzling as they are remarkable.

Thinking about software creation as collaborative design makes some puzzling facts about software development suddenly make more sense.

It exists as a puzzling clinical entity of uncertain origins and high recurrence rates after surgical resection.

holmes worked as a "consulting detective, " taking on only the most difficult and puzzling cases.

Chinese social moral life has also transcended the puzzling and introspection phase of the social transformation era.

The situation there was more puzzling than ever.

No one is suggesting such an approach and this should be puzzling.

To a man who had been taught that every word in the Bible was true, this was very puzzling.

But for decades there has been a puzzling trend in the boy: girl ratio.

Every reader of the Bible has encountered the powerful, comforting and sometimes puzzling imagery of Scripture.

Puzzling Shakespeare : Local Reading and Its Discontents .

That means that there is a puzzling duality to China's character: we often say that it is both big and small, strong and weak.

We journalists must be puzzling creatures to the rest of the world.

In view of the New York Fed's intimate experience with such firms in 2008, it is puzzling that it failed to identify another in the making.

In view of the New York Fed's intimate experience with such firms in 2008, it is puzzling that it failed to identify another in the making.

Frankly, these findings are a little puzzling to me.

What better way to pay some homage to the days of your culinary roots then with these puzzling retro style grinders.

This series of excessively generous and hospitality behaviors were really interesting, puzzling, and making people feel at loss.

Last week, the Chinese city of Leshan witnessed a phenomenon that's puzzling experts: Three "suns" appeared in the sky at once.

China has a great range of customs as habits that may seem puzzling to a westerners.

Tourist attractions at the hotel or not into the good, one is expensive, 2 it is to eat the puzzling.

This decision makes many puzzling, since have made the punishment, why retained Wang Meng domestic competitions to qualify?

As such, the researchers believe that grape seed just might hold a key to the puzzling condition called Alzheimer's Disease.

The students were puzzled at the puzzling result of the experiment.

There was a puzzling expression on his face.

Dawson and his students hope to solve one of the most puzzling aspects of the world's oceans: where they get all their energy.

But imagining is not the same as building, and puzzling is a long, long way from patenting.

Researchers are puzzling over the results, which were completely contrary to their expectations.

It's puzzling that so many organizations continue to use BDUF in the face of so many failures and underachieving projects.

As a Beijing homeowner myself, I've experienced this puzzling phenomenon firsthand.

Tom was not listening, and an earlier clause of the document was puzzling him.

The book explores the puzzling stagnation in the typical American wage since the 1970s.

What's even more puzzling is the apparent indifference of the Obama team to the effect of such gestures on their supporters.

More puzzling yet are some well-educated people who have been so affected with the evil preaching as to be unable to shake free.

I have been puzzling my brains about this question for weeks now.

In the course of the difficult, cyclic repetition of life, the puzzling questions of self are being answered.

Besides, SHE'S she, and I'm I, and--oh dear, how puzzling it all is!

It is puzzling why a particular technology does not spread everywhere throughout the world once invented.

We're still puzzling about how the accident could have happened.

He seemed to be puzzling over something when I stepped into his room.

However the underground garage illumination question has been puzzling the developer, inhabitant's headache question.

This seems puzzling, but I'm going to argue you shouldn't be surprised by this.

Mr Coase's theory continues to explain some of the most puzzling problems in modern business.

This children smile towards me by window, immediately remove my puzzling felling of today. Their smiling keeps good memory of today.

Moreover "Van Norman" would still be puzzling, since "Van" calls for a place-name.

Researchers set up a puzzling feed box in the wild populations of great tits (Parus major) and blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus).

As these puzzling and dreadful occurrences continue, the team tirelessly explores strange and creepy links to dreams.

No biographer has been able to explain these puzzling words.

This case illustrates two important points that come up relatively frequently in puzzling clinical problems.

A work of fiction , drama , or film dealing with a puzzling crime .

He has already made his mark on biology throughout a career puzzling over and exploring the workings of DNA and its cousin, RNA.

But his obsession with "professionalisation" and "Hippocratic oaths" is puzzling.

I have been puzzling about this question for weeks now.

Dementia and depression can be constant companions in old age, but which comes first has been puzzling.

And Cottam is still puzzling over how to persuade London pensioners to use life coaches to help them to change their lifestyles.

SOME years ago, when Bagehot was living in Beijing, he watched workmen install a puzzling machine in his local park.

Certainly this "young lady" isn't "young lady" of mutual meaning, announce a decisive and puzzling manufacture woman.

This shifting register contributes to what is, in the end, a rather puzzling read.

Scientists are puzzling over the results of the research on the drug.

There's nothing at all wrong with puzzling out how a space elevator could get built.

Zhao said he had found the answers for many puzzling problems that emerged last year and he was keen on verifying the answers with Buffett.

This retroperitoneal tumor is puzzling, and I was surprised after examining the immunostains.

How to improve students listening and speaking competence has long been a problem puzzling teachers of college English in China.

This can be puzzling to programmers trained in conventional object-oriented languages like C and Java.

But when you see something that's puzzling and out of the ordinary, you are forced to make more and more interpretations.

The night before his departure, I lay twisting and turning in bed, puzzling about what to tell him. I couldn't think of anything.

So the agency's decision to approve Zetia without requiring larger trials is especially puzzling, Dr. Nissen said.

Even more puzzling is United States practice as to when to assert the diplomatic privilege and when to bail after cover is blown.

Yet what's surprising to me, and puzzling, is why younger, less affluent consumers have grown their share of luxury spending.

In this context, it is puzzling why the administration is tinkering at the fringes with programs designed to enrich Wall Street.

Lizzy, You, re very puzzling, Mr. Darcy, at this moment, it's difficult to believe that you're so proud.

Only when a group of related shreds has been found using these criteria does the actual puzzling begin.

The Kochs' sense of imperilment is somewhat puzzling.

This behavior is puzzling to economists, who like to believe that people tend to act in their own self interest.

That is why it is puzzling to some people to see that in the same environment one person can thrive and another can hardly survive.

That's an apt representation of how puzzling the energy issue can be for many consumers.

To straighten out (something puzzling or complicated); clarify or resolve.

A sub-satellite of the Saturnian moon would explain two of the most puzzling features of Iapetus.

You're right. A lot of information contradicts other information, so it can be very puzzling.

Nonetheless, the Swedish clerks' puzzling response to their ordeal has been emulated over and over again in a series of high-profile cases.

All this is as puzzling as it is terrible.

James also made some puzzling postgame comments, saying he had "spoiled" people with his play over seven seasons.

Music is actually one forms of human culture, and the rethinking of music culture is actually a puzzling in music culture.

Fourteen participants staged their event in three downtown areas of the city, puzzling a lot of passers-by in the process.

A puzzling feature of many medical innovations is that they simultaneously appear to reduce unit costs and increase total costs.

As a result of reason and so on history, the brand management and the brand development question is puzzling the branch dragon continuously.

Due to their puzzling nightmares, the villagers have felt puzzled recently.

The management of students files is a difficult problem puzzling university administrators for many years.

Let the County Deputy Secretary for small and medium enterprises, some puzzling is that current cotton prices still fell falls over.

This becomes less puzzling once we examine how past income and wealth gain are split between the government and households.

Part1. Cona Doyle became famous for writing stories about Detective Holmes. So he was often asked to settle puzzling problems.

An appealing but puzzling questions that often haunts most college students.

The name "Van Orman" is puzzling.

Hmmm. Well, that certainly is one of your more puzzling qualities. Very Well.

Another feature of British home ownership, which is puzzling to many people from other countries, is the desire to "trade up" .

Henry's father was fond of asking him puzzling questions.

eg. I spent hours puzzling over the theme of the poem.

response to the interviewer that puzzling question in life, facing a major decision-making, etc. We need to calmly cope with them.

And no , I don't know how it works into the whole puzzling scheme of things , but obviously, I know a coded message when I see one .

The only survivor of the horrific crash in Paris, Trevor Rees-Jones would surely answer all the puzzling questions about that night in 1997.

But all this is a little puzzling.

Now you've scratching your head, puzzling over how to combine all of these aspects into one job.

For Chinese analysts, the Indian objections are puzzling.

The breeze blows softly. The butterfly spreads her wings cravenly . The sky is high and the land is broad: how to fly. She is puzzling.

In all of our feelings, the most puzzling and captivating is the love and jealousy.

She's been puzzling over his strange letter for weeks.

This area, Vanuatu, has been experiencing puzzling volcanic activity, and this part of the globe is very seismically active.

reunions during the Spring Festival, which may seem rather puzzling.

I keep puzzling over his strange behavior.

Economists have been puzzling over why the fall in international commerce was so rapid.

A lot of the medical conditions the microbiome is being implicated in are puzzling.

The source of a new or dreaded disease often is puzzling.

Even more puzzling is the ban on short selling German financial stocks.

It is equally puzzling: Kin name of "Women's 7-Jie Bao-ching, " Why would the light disinfection products test standards?

This story is very interesting. The problem is quite puzzling.

In the process of multi objective group decision making, it is important and puzzling how to determine the weight of the objective.

Alipay is considered a valuable asset for Yahoo and it's 'puzzling' that terms weren't settled before the restructuring, Mr. Rohan said.

In other words, the more jobs there are, the greater the violence -- a puzzling result.

I've been puzzling ever since I set eyes on you where I saw you before.

His letter poses a number of puzzling questions.

EUROPEAN politicians began puzzling over tax harmonisation in 1962.

It is the other categories that are more puzzling.

If you come across puzzling questions, you can write them in your letters.

Equally puzzling is that the book's footnotes give no references for its most startling contentions.

But this year's changes have been more puzzling.

Quite developed Spain, which has a higher misery index than India or Pakistan, is more puzzling.

The problem is quite puzzling.

They turned to the villagers with the puzzling map.

They are puzzling through the mazy new rules of the game.

This statement may at first seem puzzling, for we usually think of causes and effects as running forward not backward in time.

Many have found it beautiful to look at but too puzzling and demanding.

The puzzling part is a critical stage of all invention and inspiration.

Also, the emphasis on the utility of children is puzzling.

The puzzling blunt person becomes angry, with as for all kick out they.

At first I found their remarks and reactions to the sights of daily Beijing life puzzling.

What is puzzling, intriguing, or worrisome to you?

They are puzzling through the new rules of the game.

eg. The puzzled look on his face suggested that he didn't know how to deal with the puzzling situation.

Americans have a great range of customs and habits that at first may seem puzzling to a visitor.

The puzzled look on his face made us puzzling.

It is puzzling too that some scandals of past years are treated so sketchily.

It is more puzzling that some multinational corporations are also opposed.

The other day , the maths teacher asked us to do a really puzzling problem.

Indeed the men did look normal, which is why we found it puzzling.

It has also made the poems easier to engage with: there are no puzzling Ulsterisms, for instance.

The fact haven't taken yet is puzzling .

AUTISM is a puzzling phenomenon.

The development of tumors from embryonic stem cells is especially puzzling given that these cells start out as completely normal cells.

Pay close attention to even minor disputes, since many are key to puzzling, and often persistent, problems.

The jump in core inflation may seem puzzling.

I've been puzzling my head over this problem for weeks.

The puzzling clusters of dark lines fade in winter and reappear in the spring.

The eighth choice, Robert Kennedy, is more puzzling.

There are also puzzling anomalies in the pattern of extinction.

I am press by the puzzling thought very heavy, very heavy. Who to tell me? What is perfect!

but others are puzzles, puzzling me.

c. The puzzling problem made me puzzled.

What is love? The old question has been puzzling human being for centuries.

Is puzzling, whether walk too to excite with absurd. From think of shining, whether is it the whirlpool sort that get black hole? !

He's not a dog. He's just puzzling it through.

I have been puzzling over this problem for hours and find no answer.

Their travails, however, go some way towards explaining the puzzling weakness of job creation since the recession ended last year.

The most puzzling detail about it all is that the meals appear to have cost $20, 000.

What do they observe in the world and find puzzling?

This is puzzling as well as interesting for many scientists.

It is not only a puzzling problem in Eastern-Jin Xuanxue, but also a vexed question in Chinese philosophy since.

Mrs. Baroda felt confused with Gouvernail's puzzling nature and found it hard to penetrate the silence which was not conscious.

Prajna Paramita is magic medicine that cures all kinds of puzzling and incurable diseases!

The second answer is that what is going on is quite puzzling.

My friend told me a riddle that was extremely puzzling.

Could you answer kindly a question which is puzzling me?

Which in the eyes of Westerners, is very puzzling, why must urging people to drink?

In the world just how things are puzzling.

I've been sitting here puzzling about what to do.