Refugees are real people, not just an overwhelming statistic.

So the message to policymakers was confusing.

Indeed, even in the opaque terms of contemporary politics, the German case is particularly vexing.

Another puzzling and more serious problem for the new Government of Somalia is the United Nations arms embargo on Somalia.

They described it as having been upsetting, confusing, and disturbing, but not traumatic in the sense of being overwhelmingly terrifying.

With respect to the last point, recent shifts in the composition of Chinese GDP appear disconcerting at first glance.

While no individual issue is overwhelming yet, together they could serve to dampen economic activity and the proper functioning of markets.

So, too, is an informed and engaged electorate, because the expert advice offered to voters is itself so confusing.

School refusal can also occur after a stressful event, such as moving to a new house, or the death of a pet or relative.

Take a look at this sentence One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.

And I don't know about you, but every time I assemble one of those, it takes me much longer, it's much more effortful, it's much more confusing.

Its current account deficit remains large, and monetary policy has been confusing, as the objective of boosting competitiveness and growth clashes with the need to control inflation and avoid excessive credit expansion.

But offshore based airborne action, with a sharply defined and limited objective, is much less susceptible to the kind of mission creep and quagmire problems that often beset intervening ground forces, especially those with an inherently confused mandate, as in Afghanistan.

He points out that several chronicles refer to him as Edward the Fourth (the title he would have taken as King had he outlived his father) this name would obviously have become confusing when the actual Edward IV succeeded in 1461, and this may have been the period when an alternative had to be found.