Herodias took upon her to confound the laws of our country, and divorced herself from her husband while he was alive, and was married to Herod Antipas

He then continues to praise scribes by saying " The dedicated scribe, the object of our treatise, will never fail to praise God, give pleasure to angels, strengthen the just, convert sinners, commend the humble, confirm the good, confound the proud and rebuke the stubborn ".

For the same faith is held and handed down by the churches established in the German states, the Spains, among the Celtic tribes, in the East, in Libya, and in the central portions of the world …" In Book 3, Irenaeus continues his defense of the unity of the church around the bishop, writing, " By pointing out the apostolic tradition and faith announced to mankind, which has been brought down to our time by successions of bishops, in the greatest, most ancient, and well known church, founded and established by the two most glorious apostles, Peter and Paul, at Rome, we can confound all who in any other way … gather more than they ought.

She soon finds herself in the company of both the White and Red Queens who relentlessly confound Alice by using word play to thwart her attempts at logical discussion.

" Various English translations use different vocabulary sometimes with different meanings ; usually this causes no important difference to the story: one speech / vocabulary / same words, plain / valley, asphalt / bitumen / slime, children / men, confound / confuse ; and sometimes the difference is important to later interpretations of the meaning of the story: may reach unto heaven / in the sky / will be in the skies ( examples from King James, Holman Christian, and R E Friedman versions ).

" Father-in-law wants a big trial which will illuminate everything ", René de Chambrun told Laval's lawyers: " If he is given time to prepare his defence, if he is allowed to speak, to call witnesses and to obtain from abroad the information and documents which he needs, he will confound his accusers.

While a close relationship between these and ungulates was already proposed by Frank Evers Beddard in 1900 and is generally accepted today, cetaceans have diverged so radically from their ancestors ' lifestyle as to confound analyses of fossils and perhaps even DNA.

* and errors in the fragments from the sequencing instruments, which can confound assembly.

Her questions at first confound Dr. Walsh — who answers to no one — then cement Dr. Walsh's decision to remove Buffy from the Initiative.

Eye movements additionally can confound the data from SLO.

Thopas is the first of what is usually called the surprise group of tales, as each is quite different from the preceding and they are seemly written to confound expectations.

To mirror the new musical direction that the group took with Achtung Baby, the tour was intended to deviate from their past and confound expectations of the band.

At the outset, there is an almost dithyrambic address to the goddess Roma, " whose glory has ever shone the brighter for disaster, and who will rise once more in her might and confound her barbarian foes ".

Sensing a powerful, dangerous force in pursuit across her land, Raederle uses her abilities to confound it, thinking she is protecting Morgon ; but discovers that the force she thought was Ghisteslwchlohm is Morgon himself, who has stolen much of Ghisteslwchlohm's power during his long captivity, while the helpless man he pursued was Deth, who betrayed him.

The toxic resinous compounds may confound a wide range of herbivores, insects, and pathogens ; while the volatile phenolic compounds may attract benefactors such as parasitoids or predators of the herbivores that attack the plant.

Diodorus calls him Spithrobates, and appears to confound him with Mithridates, the son-in-law of Darius, whom Alexander slew in the battle with his own hand ; while what Arrian records of Spithridates is related by Diodorus of his brother Rhoesaces.

" At that time ( 1909 ) the Roman Martyrology had the following text: This entry was based on what the Catholic Encyclopedia called later legends that confound the relative positions of Felix and Liberius.

Synesthesia was a prized experience ; poets sought to identify and confound the separate senses of scent, sound, and colour.

) because he held that the law was so unique as to " confound this normal process of judicial review " and " defies ... conventional inquiry.

By the end of the year, Smith was ready to confound veterinary opinion by returning the horse to race training, with a collection of stable jockeys in the saddle.

Even though the conception and the purpose of the so-called Olympic movement is the promote the values of global socialism as perfectly expressed in the song " Imagine " by John Lennon, which was the theme of the 1996 Games — even though the purpose of the Olympics is to promote these despicable ideals, the purpose of the attack on July 27th was to confound, anger and embarrass the Washington government in the eyes of the world for its abominable sanctioning of abortion on demand.

Even though the conception and purpose of the so-called Olympic movement is to promote the values of global socialism, as perfectly expressed in the song Imagine by John Lennon, which was the theme of the 1996 Games even though the purpose of the Olympics is to promote these ideals, the purpose of the attack on July 27 was to confound, anger and embarrass the Washington government in the eyes of the world for its abominable sanctioning of abortion on demand.

( This number was selected to confound the Russians with suspicions of nine more such units.

The reputation of Mad Jack was already sealed but he continued to confound and surpass his eccentric behaviour by lying between the hooves of dangerous and nervous horses.

Unusually the initial payroll attack was photographed by undercover police officers and eye witness descriptions, alleged identifications and individual robbery " roles " were predicated against those photographic records to further complicate and confound the subsequent identification evidence on which the criminal prosecution relied.

The results indicated that the college students who had experienced CSA were slightly less well-adjusted compared to other students who had not experienced CSA, but that family environment was a significant confound that may be responsible for the association between CSA and harm.

When the language of the people was confounded such that each spoke a different language, Jared asked his brother, Mahonri, to ask God not to confound their own language, that of their friends, and that of their immediate families.

On October 25, 1858, Senator Seward of New York stated to an excited crowd, “ a revolution has begun ” and alluded to Wide Awakes as “ forces with which to recover back again all the fields … and to confound and overthrow, by one decisive blow, the betrayers of the constitution and freedom forever .” To the South, the Wide Awakes and, thus the North, would only be content when the South was fully dominated.

Therefore, the ship was built as the Greyhound, and Franklin had installed false buyers in order to further confound the English.

The Nez Perce were aware that the U. S. army was pursuing them and, to confound the army, they took a circuitous route less familiar to them than their usual direct route to the Montana Great Plains.

Engaging in a verbal confrontation with a lawyer named Zeezrom, Amulek was able to discern his thoughts by the Power of the Holy Ghost and confound him.

Whilst the uncertainty in the atomic mass computed by time-of-flight methods in atom probe is sufficiently small to allow for detection of individual isotopes within a material this uncertainty may still, in some cases, confound definitive identification of atomic species.

High neonatal hematocrits are particularly likely to confound glucose measurement by meter.

John Beloff in his book Parapsychology: A Concise History ( 1997 ) has written that in the Western world parapsychology has been " driven by desire to confound materialism or reductionism " and that there has only been a minority of parapsychologists who have advocated physical theories for psi.

Shakespeare scholars describe unicorns being captured by a hunter standing in front of a tree, the unicorn goaded into charging ; the hunter would step aside the last moment and the unicorn would embed its horn deeply into the tree ( See annotations of Timon of Athens, Act 4, scene 3, c. line 341: " wert thou the unicorn, pride and wrath would confound thee and make thine own self the conquest of thy fury "

One moment you're as driven by your emotions as Klingons, and the next, you confound us by suddenly embracing logic.

This difference is possibly due to the need for moths to conserve heat during the cooler nights, or to confound echolation by bats, whereas butterflies are able to absorb solar radiation,

An artist could also confound conventional notions of beauty, he demonstrated, by harnessing his demons to the dark gods ( not necessarily Tahitian ones ) and tapping a new source of divine energy.

Loops which can confound naive maze solvers may be introduced by adding random edges to the result during the course of the algorithm.

His politics, said Dr. Samuel Johnson, were characterized by an " impetuous eagerness to subvert and confound, with very little care what shall be established ," and he is caricatured in the republican doctor of Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle.

As I know at this present for a certainty, that I have the spirit of God within me: so do I with the like certainty believe, that in my dialogues with Satan, when I sundry places of scripture, to withstand the temptations he assaulted me with: I had the spirit of God in me, and by that spirit resisted Satan at those times, by the scriptures to confound him.

The 2000 Big Finish audio play The Apocalypse Element attempts to explain this decision by introducing a plot point in which the eye of the Sixth Doctor's companion Evelyn Smythe is keyed to a Gallifreyan security system so as to confound enemy expectations by allowing entry only to the most unlikely of candidates, the Doctor speculating after the crisis is over that the TARDIS may retain some sensitivity to human eyes in the future.

While on occasion statistical data useful in historical research might have been completely invented by the Soviet authorities, there is little evidence that most statistics were significantly affected by falsification or insertion of false data with the intent to confound the West.