(1) Vatican officials appear to have been flummoxed after Pope Francis was presented with a communist crucifix depicting Jesus nailed to a hammer and sickle by Bolivia’s president Evo Morales.
(2) Was he not doing something to keep you off?” He went on: “He seemed to catch you with some good right hands early in the fight, did you feel his power?” Then, finally, he added: “So you’re saying you thought you were up in the fight and that’s why you didn’t step up the pace in the 11th and 12th rounds.” Pacquiao seemed flummoxed by the direct line of questioning, and even this usually unfailingly polite competitor betrayed his annoyance by the end of the interview.
(3) The tie was level for only four minutes, as Nugent popped up again , nodding home from a corner having flummoxed his marker to make it 2-1 to the visitors on aggregate, only for Vydra, arguably the division’s best player that season, to draw Watford back level 20 minutes into the second half , finishing neatly after a one-two with Deeney, which was the way it stayed until five minutes into injury-time, with extra-time seemingly a certainty.
(4) Republicans led the applause when he made a reference to abortion, invoking the need to “protect and defend human life at every stage of its development”, only to be flummoxed when he swiftly moved on to condemn the death penalty and excessive jail terms.
(5) Tareq and Michaele Salahi have Washington society aghast, and the Secret Service in a flummox, after sashaying into the White House, posing for photos with everyone from the vice-president to the marine guards, then posting the pictures on Facebook under the factually challenged caption: "I was honoured to be invited."
(6) The Glasgow Effect” was a term coined by academics flummoxed at why the city had significantly higher levels of ill health and premature death than other UK cities possessing similar social challenges.
(7) This was also the case at a North Korean restaurant in Beijing, where the staff said they were rooting for their nation in South Africa but were flummoxed by questions about which player they preferred.
(8) Carson, briefly a frontrunner , seemed flummoxed throughout the debate, and was a non-factor.
(9) My effort in introducing them was to find a solution that reflected common ground and fixed the problem.” Asked to respond in his interview with Fox, Cruz appeared somewhat flummoxed.
(10) The home substitute Dan Burn was flummoxed by a clever header across field, which bought the forward space in which to charge, and he finished calmly through Maarten Stekelenburg's legs.
(11) Have you ever seen Chelsea win an appeal?” The Burnley manager, Sean Dyche, professed to being “absolutely flummoxed” by Mourinho’s suggestion that decisions had more to do with the result than Burnley’s performance but said he would study all four incidents.
(12) Dr Math : interactive tutoring Sitting down to do maths homework is already an uphill challenge, especially when the questions are flummoxing.
(13) This demonstrates what we actually all know; the people that run our country are no different from us, flawed and flailing they flummox and flounder their way through the day.
(14) Maliphant felt the rehearsals were moving too fast; Lepage was flummoxed by their slowness.
(15) Perhaps today would be a good moment for David Cameron to flummox rightwing orthodoxy by declaring there is no such thing as "the market".
(16) In the Kennebunkport general store, HB Provisions, there is still a surprised delight that George HW Bush agreed to serve as a witness at the same-sex marriage of its two owners, Bonnie Clement and Helen Thorgalsen, in 2013 – a scenario that has flummoxed many candidates in the current crop of conservatives .
(17) Flummoxed by the minefields of dating and fashion, she had "systematically studied" Just Seventeen magazine and the 1995 dating bestseller, The Rules.
(18) His inability to define it flummoxed officials, as he issued nothing but stirring anecdotes of good citizens – of whom, thankfully, there have always been many.
(19) The decision now appears to flummox him: “I thought I could write anywhere, but it was too peaceful, just too … nice.
(20) None of the executives at RBS or HBOS, the two most prominent casualties of the crisis, would talk to the Guardian for this series but it was clear from the testimony of Andy Hornby, HBOS's chief executive, and Lord Stevenson, its chairman, to parliamentary committees that they were completely flummoxed – and terrified – when they found that the wholesale markets were closed for business.
Stumped
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Stump
Example Sentences:
(1) Local embolism, vertebral distal-stump embolism, the dynamics of hemorrhagic infarction and embolus-in-transit are briefly described.
(2) Nine months later, the animals were sacrificed, the esophagus and the gastric stump were removed for histologic examination.
(3) A newborn presenting with persistent umbilical stump bleeding should be screened for factor XIII deficiency when routine coagulation tests prove normal.
(4) The locations of remaining tumor were the tracheal stump in patients in whom resection was incomplete.
(5) Posterior half stumps regenerated limbs with a mean digit number of 2.7 and had a normal dorsoventral muscle pattern.
(6) Two factors influencing cellular morphology in vitro were identified in Locusta: 1) the presence of a primary neurite stump, and 2) membrane contacts between cells.
(7) This low level of binding was maintained for periods of up to 70 days, demonstrating that some STX binds to structures other than axons in denervated distal stumps.
(8) For those who can't stump up more than 5% of the agreed price, he suggests guarantor mortgages, such as that offered by Lloyds TSB.
(9) The appendix or appendix stump was visualised on 53% of the barium examinations.
(10) We describe a male infant with congenital deficiency of coagulation Factor XIII who presented in the immediate postnatal period with umbilical stump bleeding and suffered a severe intracranial hemorrhage at 2 months of age.
(11) Photograph: Peter Beaumont for the Guardian For his part the leader of Hadash, the veteran socialist party in Israel that emphasises Arab-Jewish cooperation, Odeh has now attracted a political star status most obvious on the stump in Lod on Wednesday in the repeated cries of “Ayman!” by shopkeepers and passersby keen to shake his hand or be photographed with him.
(12) In both treatments, the proximal axon stumps exhibited regenerative growth as early as 1 day after axotomy, and, by the third day, neurites had extended.
(13) Since muscle contraction ceases immediately following nerve transection, regardless of nerve stump length, the results can be ascribed to the lack of some neural influence other than nerve-evoked muscle activity.
(14) Injury to the stump of a below-knee amputation (BKA) may require revision to a higher level of amputation.
(15) Crushing the optic nerve eliminated retinopetal fibers from all regions except the cerebral stump of the optic nerve, indicating that this projection was of central origin.
(16) This is dependent upon the gap between the tendon stumps being rather small.
(17) To maintain its 30% stake the Co-op would need to stump up another £120m, increasing its already high debt levels.
(18) Vauxhall Tower Like a cigarette stubbed out by the Thames, the Vauxhall's lonely stump looks cast adrift, a piece of Pudong that's lost its way.
(19) The radiological picture of the amputation stump after osteosarcoma was reviewed in 75 cases, in which postoperative follow-up ranged from a minimum four months, to a maximum of over 12 years.
(20) The postoperative alkaline reflux gastritis is described, the consequences including the carcinoma of the gastric stump are mentioned.