cross-purposes u rečniku PONS

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Talk about an expensive political agenda that runs at cross-purposes to deficit reduction goals.
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This double appointment would ensure that the two roles could not work at cross-purposes.
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Doubling up like this in canoes, fly anglers must not cast at cross-purposes, fouling their lines.
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So the salt detection mechanism and the sour detection mechanism are almost like they're talking at cross-purposes.
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We've talked at cross-purposes for over an hour.
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And competition between these senior leaders -- for power, and to make their own unit successful -- can lead to them working at cross-purposes.
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It was a war of cross-purposes, and so doomed to perpetual escalation.
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He said, in his experience, relationships could sour when the two functions are working at cross-purposes.
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For example, individual and team-based rewards can sometime work at cross-purposes.
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The plots are occasionally intricate and always farcical, involving coincidences, misunderstandings, cross-purposes and meetings both missed and accidental.
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