Really, it's just the size of the tattoo that confounds the rest of us.
While the SBA's Web site promises a wealth of resources, it also confounds.
Mr Logevall revisits this period to consider the tension between idealism and pragmatism that still confounds American policymakers today.
Unfortunately, it wasn't in the streets of LA. It was in the confounds of LAPD police stations and shops (cruisers).
The work points up the relationship between children's games and adult crime, and confounds comfortable distinctions between victims and criminals.
The lack of transparency and accountability surrounding compensation continually confounds working women.
What still confounds Leslie and Jim Elder: How the cost of medical care, and medical insurance, went sky high in just over a decade.
In 1998, France broke the spell that confounds teams like the NBA's Utah Jazz: being unable to win big if named after a musical style.
Putting is golf's darkest art, a skill that confounds and mystifies.
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Half of all heart disease patients don't even have high cholesterol, a fact that confounds the layman's myth that heart attacks are caused by cholesterol clogging up the body's plumbing like grease in pipes.
This confounds professionals who have had careers seeing clean energy as the wannabe, alternative energy but my message is they better get used to the fact that it is more preferred by smart money and the crowd.
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Certainly, one strains to imagine how anything touching on gun ownership, the Second Amendment, etc. could find its way into a health care reform bill just as it confounds the imagination to contemplate who might have been responsible for adding such a clause in the first place.
This news confounds the narrative about coal that has started to take hold in the U.S. The story goes that coal, nudged toward extinction by a glut of cheap, domestic natural gas and stiffening regulations, will begin to disappear as a fuel source and cause emissions of global-warming gases to decline.
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