be at cross - purposesの例文

• The celebration, of course, seemed to be at cross-purposes with the event it was honoring.
• :Great to hear, i'll second that the muliple accounts thing would seem to be at cross-purposes with your goals.
• Antitrust scholars have long recognized the undesirability of having courts oversee product design, and any dampening of technological innovation would be at cross-purposes with antitrust law.
• While many of the proposals to reform the bank and the fund appear to be at cross-purposes, there is rough agreement that both have strayed from their main missions.
• The architect of an apartment building, for instance, can easily be at cross-purposes with the owners of the building regarding how the building should look and feel, and they could both be at cross-purposes with the future tenants.
• The architect of an apartment building, for instance, can easily be at cross-purposes with the owners of the building regarding how the building should look and feel, and they could both be at cross-purposes with the future tenants.
• Carter is well aware that from a traditional perspective his diplomatic principles can appear to be at cross-purposes, that he is perceived both as an international human-rights advocate who judges the moral goodness of actions and as a cold-blooded realist.
• "Antitrust scholars have long recognized the undesirability of having courts oversee product design, and any dampening of technological innovation would be at cross-purposes with antitrust law, " the panel said in one passage that Neukom took care to point out.
• Fair enough, that is what I created it for, and since I have once again been hugely frustrated by the whole thing, I've taken a step back and decided to stop arguing his points since we seem to be at cross-purposes.
• "Viv阯cias Partilhadas " provides widest range of representations of the Goan subaltern in Portuguese-language Goan literature post-1961, with a particular focus on the experiences of women, though this deep-seated sympathy at times appears to be at cross-purposes with a certain social conservatism.
• "Antitrust scholars have long recognized the undesirability of having courts oversee product design, and any dampening of technological innovation would be at cross-purposes with antitrust law, " said the text of Tuesday's decision by a three-judge panel of the U . S . Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
• The major parties in the conservation and environmental movements, which span a broad spectrum of green, recognize the power and wealth that comes along with the Turner sanction, even though some proactive aspects of the Turners'operations and their philosophical underpinnings _ such as timber harvesting and big-game hunting _ may be at cross-purposes with those organizations'mission statements.