How To Use Cross-purpose In A Sentence
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On the contrary, there is a vast shadow of melancholy, a painful sadness, doubt and cross-purpose, boldness at one moment and timidity at the next, a longing for solitude.
Half a Rogue
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Some are pioneering new delivery systems that encourage providers to coordinate patient care, rather than work at cross-purposes with little communication.
The Time to Innovate Is Now
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The present system of managed floating does contain the possibility of direct conflict if official intervention is carried out at cross-purposes.
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These cross-purpose directives underscore the corn-ethanol conundrum.
Robert Howarth: Record Corn Crop Spells More Trouble for Gulf of Mexico Fisheries
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All this, including conversations à trois at cross-purposes, with three-way splutters, is supposed to make the play more interesting but merely makes it all the more annoying.
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Despite what the founders idiotically though, having different aspects of the government working at cross-purposes does not actually make for better governance.
Matthew Yglesias » Why A Much Bigger Stimulus Won’t Work
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The brother is driven to despair — he bites his nails, winks, coughs, makes signs, which she always takes up at cross-purpose. —
Saint Ronan's Well
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'I'm sorry, Mrs Want," Crook said, `but I'm afraid we're at cross-purposes.
STAGE FRIGHT
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Part of West Africa's quandary is that although its population belts are horizontal, with habitation densities increasing as one travels south away from the Sahara and toward the tropical abundance of the Atlantic littoral, the borders erected by European colonialists are vertical, and therefore at cross-purposes with demography and topography.
The Coming Anarchy
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But as we and other organizations have observed, a lack of transparency, visibility, and basic data -- not to mention the lack of a lead coordinating agency for contingency operations -- has caused or contributed to duplication, gaps, and cross-purposes, and has permitted unnecessary incidents of waste, fraud, and abuse.
David Isenberg: The State Department Takes Charge: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
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A strong section sees it as unjust, pointing out that no such restraint has been imposed on "motormouth" ministers, who not just speak out of turn but do so at cross-purposes with colleagues and even on foreign shores.
The Times of India
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Spitzer and Bruno, the scandal-plagued former Republican Senate Majority Leader, found themselves at cross-purposes from the very beginning of Spitzer's term.
Asher Smith: Eliot Spitzer Deserves Some Credit for New York's Gay Marriage Victory
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It worked at cross-purposes, unable to escape the inference of fuddled human personnel and jerky moving parts.
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The pretty vision greeted him with the air of a privileged child of the house, interrupting only for an instant the babel of cross-purpose explanation about carriages and trains.
The Convert
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Insect societies as divided organisms: The complexities of purpose and cross-purpose
NAS Sackler Colloquium papers online - The Panda's Thumb
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Antipholus is also now reassured about his gold, and the earlier cross-purpose seems only
Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies
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Administration officials insist the two policies are not at cross-purposes.
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Most of them are former US military, and the idea they would operate at cross-purpose to the active military is laughable.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Military Privatization and the Danger of Coups:
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Sometimes these are at cross-purposes because if the segments break apart too soon, penetration will be shallow and dispersion wide.
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“What happens is, sometimes at cross-purposes, you got one hand doing one thing and one hand doing the other, both trying to do the right thing but working without a good outcome,” he said.
Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 16, 2010
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Both clearly see the strange, romantic threads restraining them within coercive limits, interdicting helpful alliances while leading all at divergent angles of cross-purpose.
Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898
