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confused and atmosphere
When Sam invites her on a date to a baseball game, Tess inadvertently breaks the " men only " atmosphere of the press box, and is initially confused and unfamiliar with the rules of the sport, before enjoying herself and befriending other spectators.
( This should not be confused with the combustion of hydrogen in an oxidizing atmosphere.
It was thought that its bleak, sour atmosphere confused Slade fans who were used to Slade delivering a good time.
Guttation is not to be confused with dew, which condenses from the atmosphere onto the plant surface.
The Earth's atmosphere can give rise to significant temporal distortions that could be confused with actual lunar phenomena ( see astronomical seeing ).
A blowoff valve, ( not to be confused with a bypass valve ) performs the same task but releases the air into the atmosphere instead of recirculating it.
* A compression release brake, or jake brake, this is the type of brake most commonly confused with real engine braking ; it is used mainly in large diesel trucks and works by opening the exhaust valves at the top of the compression stroke, resulting in adiabatic expansion of the compressed air, so the large amount of energy stored in that compressed air is not returned to the crankshaft, but is released into the atmosphere.
The story, however, is lovingly detailed ; the descriptions of the geography may be somewhat confused, but effort was clearly made to get names correct, and to get across the atmosphere of the city.

confused and politics
James followed with The Princess Casamassima ( 1886 ), the story of an intelligent but confused young London bookbinder, Hyacinth Robinson, who becomes involved in far left politics and a terrorist assassination plot.
In 1063, still immersed in the confused local politics of Northumbria, his popularity apparently plummeted.
They had confused his politics with that of the Socialist-aligned Poalei Zion (' Zionist Workers ') party, which it called ' a definite Bolshevist institution.
In 1879, Thomas Scott ( not to be confused with another person of the same name who was executed by Louis Riel's provisional government in 1870 ) and Joseph Royal attempted to introduce partisan politics into the province.
He is not to be confused with a former Conservative Member of Parliament Leslie Charles Curran, although it has been said that they had broadly similar politics.
" Not to be confused with Simon Kuznets ' idea of long-cycles, or long-swings, long cycles of global politics are patterns of past world politics.
Goddard told Fishbowl DC that people sometimes get confused by his politics because he's fiercely independent in his views and " not a joiner by nature.
Not simply an action program, Tour of Duty was also groundbreaking as it addressed the issues of politics, faith, teamwork, racism, suicide, fragging, terrorism, civilian deaths, drug abuse, and the shattered lives and confused feelings of those troops who finally made it home alive.
Godard seems to suggest that the students are at once serious committed revolutionaries intent on bringing about major social change as well as confused bourgeois youngsters merely flirting with the notion of radical politics as a fashionable and exciting distraction.

confused and alliances
The Democratic Liberal Party of Armenia ( ADLA ) should not to be confused with the historical Armenian Democratic Liberal Party ( ADL ) () also known as the Ramgavar Party, which is a powerful long-standing Armenian party in the Armenian diaspora established in 1885 by Mekertich Portukalian under the name Armenakan Party () and later named Democratic Liberal Party ( ADL ), although there were alliances between the ADL and ADLA parties.

confused and were
The confused rambling of guerrilla warfare, such as most of Garibaldi's campaigns were, was brought to life by Trevelyan's pen in some of the best passages in the books.
He claimed in his attacks that Woodruff, with scurrilous underhandedness, had deliberately written an ambiguous bid that had so confused the honest members of the legislature that they had awarded him the contract without knowing what they were doing.
From the east to the west coast of the Korean peninsula was a strip of land in which fear-filled men were at that same moment furtively crawling through the night, sitting in sweaty anticipation of any movement or sound, or shouting amidst confused rifle flashes and muzzle blasts.
In a confused, soaked and stumbling shift of bodies and lifting arms, the two men were dragged into the same skiff.
They were becoming confused.
* Aran Islands: These islands off the west coast of Ireland, ( not to be confused with the Isle of Arran in Scotland's Firth of Clyde ), were unsuitable for arable farming because they were too rocky.
The two substances were confused, because they both were found washed up on beaches.
Each of the Greek ethne were said to be named in honor of their respective ancestors: Achaeus of the Achaeans, Danaus of the Danaans, Cadmus of the Cadmeans ( the Thebans ), Hellen of the Hellenes ( not to be confused with Helen of Troy ), Aeolus of the Aeolians, Ion of the Ionians, and Dorus of the Dorians.
This Felix was later confused with a Roman martyr named Felix, with the result that he was included in lists of the Popes as Felix II and that the succeeding Popes of the same name ( Pope Felix III and Pope Felix IV ) were given wrong numerals, as was Antipope Felix V.
The Danish cavalry, under the Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt ( not to be confused with the Duke of Württemberg who fought with Eugene ), had made slow work of crossing the Nebel near Oberglau ; harassed by Marsin's infantry near the village, the Danes were driven back across the stream.
By such subtle means were Cranmer's purposes further confused, leaving it for generations to argue over the precise theology of the rite.
The battle opened with a confused cavalry fight on the French right, in which individual feats of knightly gallantry were more noticeable ( and better recorded in the chronicles ) than any attempt at combined action.
People [...] were visibly uncomfortable and appeared to be confused, saying things like " What the fuck, man?
A 2nd century CE Greek known as Heraclitus the paradoxographer --- not to be confused with the 5th century BCE Greek philosopher Heraclitus --- claimed Euhemeristically that Cerberus had two pups which were never away from their father, as such Cerberus was in fact a normal ( however very large ) dog but artists incorporating the two pups into their work made it appear as if his two children were in fact extra heads.
Dice are hard to differentiate from knucklebones because ancient writers confused the two, but both were used in prehistoric times.
The literary amplification reveals a confused religious background: different Artemis were conflated under the epithet.
These jerseys were white, with a single bold red stripe on the sleeves and chest, and a uniquely-styled white Old English " D " ( a Detroit sports tradition, but formerly used by the Wings, Detroit Lions, and the University of Detroit Titans ) centered on the chest stripe, but not to be confused with the Old English " D " used by the Detroit Tigers.
The people were mentioned as Helsinger ( which may mean " the people of the strait ") for the first time in King Valdemar the Victorious's Liber Census Daniæ from 1231, but they should not be confused with the Helsings of Hälsingland in Sweden.
Erbia and terbia, however, were confused at this time.
( an abbreviation of ingenieur ; not to be confused with graduates of technical hogescholen, who were engineers abbreviated ing .).

confused and quickly
His involvement was quickly ruled out ; but an inexperienced wire service reporter ( Clyde Jabin of UPI by most accounts, Joe Frazier of AP by others ), rushing to meet an imminent deadline, confused the eliminated suspect's name with the pseudonym used by the hijacker.
With the breakup of the Empire, the dispersed Mongols quickly adopted the mostly Turkic cultures surrounding them and were assimilated, forming parts of Tatars ( not confused with a tribe in ancient Mongolia ), Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Yugurs and Moghuls ; linguistic and cultural Persianization also began to be prominent in these territories.
9 / 11 conspiracy theorists quickly confused him with the hijacker Saeed al-Ghamdi.
Sautéing is often confused with pan frying, in which larger pieces of food ( for example, chops or steaks ) are cooked quickly, and flipped onto both sides.
Soval also explained that, since Earth recovered from World War III far more quickly than Vulcan did from its equivalent ( in " The Forge " and its sequel episodes, it is said that Vulcans took almost a thousand years to rebuild their society after their last catastrophic war ), it alarmed many Vulcans, who were confused as to how to deal with a rapidly growing and emotional society such as Earth's.
The Tipi ( also tepee and teepee, and not to be confused with the Wigwam of the tribes of the Northeast and the West ) was used by Plains Indians as a dwelling unit because they were portable and could be reconstructed quickly when the tribe settled in a new area for hunting or a Pow wow ( a periodic gathering of medicine men and / or spiritual leaders ).
The article explained that over 40 symbols were drawn up by Dow artists, and all of the symbols investigated had to meet a number of criteria: "( i ) striking in form in order to draw immediate attention ; ( ii ) unique and unambiguous, in order not to be confused with symbols used for other purposes ; ( iii ) quickly recognizable and easily recalled ; ( iv ) easily stenciled ; ( v ) symmetrical, in order to appear identical from all angles of approach ; and ( vi ) acceptable to groups of varying ethnic backgrounds.
Gadget moves quickly, thinks quickly, and talks quickly, sometimes leaving the others looking dazed and confused.
Ishiwara quickly realized that the confused political situation in northern China, along with Japan ’ s already significant economic investments in the area, provided the Kwantung Army with a unique opportunity.
Germany moved quickly into the confused situation, disarming Italian formations, taking military control of Italian areas, and preparing to defend Italy on her own.
Both sides opened fire at 01: 48 as the formations of the two adversaries intermingled and then quickly disintegrated into a confused free-for-all.
The two confused officers are quickly beamed back down.
Dumont's character would often give a short, startled or confused reaction to such insults, but would not otherwise respond and appeared to forget the insult quickly.
Pillman quickly formed a tag team with Hart's son Bruce known as Bad Company ( not to be confused with Badd Company ).
In his weakened and confused state, he is allowed to enter the Kingpin's office, where he is quickly and brutally beaten by the crime lord.
Frightened and confused, Orta quickly flees the Valley on the Dragon's back.
It should not be confused with negascout, an algorithm to compute the minimax or negamax value quickly by clever use of alpha-beta pruning discovered in the 1980s.
Sierra marketed the game as an improvement in the series by stating that completion of earlier King's Quest adventures was not necessary to fully enjoy the game even though a character from a previous game was reintroduced in the final chapter, leaving players who did not complete that earlier adventure confused as to his relationship with Rosella ( though both endings quickly sum up the events of KQIV to explain how they met ).
Pewtie at first seems to be a responsible father of two teenage boys but it quickly emerges that he is having an affair with the young wife of his partner Ted, a confused young man with unarticulated doubts about his role as a trooper.
He was confused by the differences between human and cat morphology and social relationships, but picked some aspects up quickly.
Michael is confused when he learns that the two women are developing a friendship, but he quickly recovers and the three of them spend a few days gradually getting closer.
A hesitant and confused Mike finally comes in to attack, and Daniel quickly counters by throwing him to the ground and scoring a point with a punch to Mike's ribs.

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