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Perhaps I let my own hope for the outcome cloud the issue.

City officials believe that sort of logic clouds the issue.

But he wasn't going to cloud the issue at hand.

However, I do not wish to cloud the issue of the wine at all.

They were trying to cloud the issue with this story about contamination.

All the trouble we take to cloud the issues and divert the attention.

"What he's trying to do is cloud the issues in the campaign and essentially make the town look very foolish."

But perhaps that was deliberate and intended to cloud the issue.

It also goes beyond ideas about the region itself, though these are apt to cloud the issue.

Widespread international access to computer networks further clouds the issue.

The law had no sooner gone into effect than a warning from Washington appeared to cloud the issue yet again.

Visits to open days and conventions may have even clouded the issue.

"But our needs mode has changed so that it clouds the issue.

Taking credit and laying blame are by no means the only factors that cloud the issue.

Those rulings, among others, have clouded the issue of affirmative action.

Costello blew enough smoke to cloud the issue for the judge.

"However, this knowledge only clouded the issue of motivation for me.

Never allow your personal feelings to cloud the issue , he had written.

If you interject your personal opinions, that will only cloud the issue and make his job more difficult.

If mystery clouds the issue, then make your statement.

Then he realized it wasn't thought or reason at all that was clouding the issue.

This has not been his forte, and notoriety only seems to cloud the issue.

He's crafted this tenuous middle ground that has clouded the issue.

In addition, the change from State to country from the first sentence to the second clouds the issue.

Much of the available evidence clouds the issue.

These comments should not be allowed to cloud the picture too much.

Issues of class and clout have further clouded the picture.

And shifting politics in Washington further cloud the picture.

But hedge funds were responsible for much of January's investment, and that clouds the picture.

"The issue of homosexuality and homophobia clouded the picture," he said.

In earlier studies, the children were often born to couples who later divorced, clouding the picture for researchers.

Further clouding the picture is how closely the sales of any one industry can mimic the broader economy.

Substances like alcohol and cocaine can also cloud the picture in bipolar disorder.

Fink was an offensive lineman in high school, but his own injury history clouds the picture somewhat.

Still, hormonal swings do not completely explain autoimmune disorders and may even cloud the picture.

Russia's recently disclosed plans to increase the number of nuclear reactors it will sell to Iran has also clouded the picture.

The inquiries' disparate objectives also cloud the picture.

The proposed reaffiliation, he said, further clouds the picture.

If you're right, he's doing it to cloud the picture, to take the attention off Phil's murder."

Clouding the picture further are higher gas prices, which are thought to be slowing the sale of both new and used cars.

And substance abuse can cloud the picture.

Europe's dependence on the United States, and fears of a war in Iraq, further cloud the picture.

Clouding the picture still more is the presence of the negociants, or shippers.

But court rulings that appeared to undermine the state's Indian land claim settlements and a growing opposition movement clouded the picture.

Those kinds of decisions now seem nearly Arcadian in their simplicity, now that irony, among other things, has arrived to cloud the picture.

Weather, strikes and inventory-related cutbacks in production in the auto industry have clouded the picture.

Don't cloud the picture, John.

Also clouding the picture is a consolidated shareholder lawsuit that was filed after Sunbeam's stock fell 50 percent in one month in early 1998.

But many executives argue that pending litigation clouds the picture or that the amounts are just too trifling to spell out, given the company's size.