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    1. She really hoped he didn't know her intimately, that was going to complicate the designs her loins already had on this meeting


    2. rather would complicate the problem


    3. Then I fell for you and did that complicate things! Suddenly, I could see the dead end Karen and I had … and there was no honourable way out


    4. To further complicate it: by


    5. If we have to stop to dress up for dinner, that will complicate things


    6. “Look, I like you as a friend, but I don’t want to complicate our lives with a romantic relationship


    7. It came as a dreadful shock to me; we were close friends … I didn’t want to complicate our friendship


    8. better without a brother to complicate things


    9. continued her woeful story, a tale that could complicate only the lives of the rich


    10. He did not complicate his existence

    11. They were not from the same nation and a relationship could complicate matters for her in the future


    12. It could complicate things for her as well, considering what the Law of Moses had to say about marriages with foreigners


    13. He didn't know her too well, and having her with him could complicate the situation


    14. ’ At this point he wondered if he should mention the exiled Elusiver, but maybe that would complicate matters


    15. It might only complicate matters


    16. “Don’t you think that would complicate things? It was bad


    17. “Why have I done that? Why complicate my life?” He thought


    18. This attitude is common among high-brow individuals who, inspired by their own (conceited) self-importance, are oftentimes likely to complicate simple matters for their (own) intended purposes of being ―misunderstood,‖ or for others, a cover-up for their ineptitude!


    19. Molo believed that asking him about his Pilgrimage was a bad idea; the dark-skinned man would erupt in a series of prayers and gestures, reciting long stories of tradition as well as many other minutiae that would only complicate his efforts at understanding whatever useful information and knowledge he could offer


    20. At this point, it would just complicate things and cause additional stress to go looking for a place

    21. Doctor, I am not sure how to put this; though this discovery of yours is exciting for us, it will complicate things for you,” I said


    22. But why complicate? Just know that you are above


    23. emerge and obscure and complicate


    24. That phenomenon and the possibility of storms or tempests could somewhat complicate some tourists’ visit, negatively affecting their health, though such cases are rare


    25. authorities were looking for ways to complicate his stay in China


    26. “This does complicate things


    27. Doesn't that complicate matters?”


    28. This should complicate things for Moses when he gets back


    29. “He'll hurt much less without me to complicate his life


    30. I understand the fix I’m in and I don’t want to complicate matters further

    31. Also his time there was limited and he did not want to complicate the serenity he had briefly found


    32. Besides, the libido of the folks, the embodiment of kama, invariably varies to complicate life further


    33. Pluto in this aspect tends to complicate child birth


    34. There’s nothing that you can’t handle, but they tend to complicate things


    35. should help a bit, to complicate his life, what?!


    36. “Why did you have to complicate things?” I whispered


    37. To complicate the situation, his wife was also a problem drinker; plus, she was a drug addict to boot


    38. Concerning her gang-rape, it would complicate matters a


    39. ‘Well that does complicate matters


    40. So, if the child has to keep his mouth shut, how can he eat? To further complicate matters, the mother of the child chimes in with, “Hurry up and finish your supper

    41. There are however a few factors that would complicate such a mission for me


    42. shouldn’t complicate matters too much


    43. To complicate matters, these unworthy people are getting paid quite well


    44. It would still be a delicate issue to approach, especially now that the suspects were well aware of his intentions; their apprehension at either being suspected or being convicted would only complicate the matter as they deliberately attempted to avoid the subject at all costs


    45. “And did you close the windows before you left?” Feltus suggested though he secretly hoped she would answer in the negative, as the opposite would complicate his other theory


    46. � He didn�t like that bit about a bulletproof vest: it would definitely complicate any assassination attempt against her


    47. but, serving only to complicate the matter


    48. complicate his already confused mind further


    49. � Could that supposedly friendly woman really come from such a barbaric period?� To complicate the problem, that woman had lethal weapons with her, weapons that had been technically banned in the Global Council for centuries


    50. Admitting that would only complicate the issue









































    1. Complicated devices and hazardous materials are to be handled


    2. It is all very complicated


    3. We often tend to make everything more complicated than it should be


    4. It is so complicated forming relationships in middle life … people tend to have all sorts of clutter by that stage


    5. The play is a fairly classic farce working round this idea, complicated by the writing of a note from Molly to Jim, the errant husband, which then goes astray with predictable consequences


    6. The play is being performed in the Village Hall – the stage is well equipped with proper lighting and although we don’t actually need microphones for so small a hall, there’s a pretty complicated looking, sound system as well


    7. The places on her torso where the artificial limbs attached were pink ovals, lumpy with contracted fibers and at the center of it all was the titanium bone and the expected set of ports for the neural interface processors that did the fantastically complicated and nuanced task of translating between machine language and the language of the human neurological system


    8. This new life was going to be far more complicated than I could possibly imagine


    9. Using Fred’s suggestion, we are packing the barrel with damp sand to hold the tree upright and in the hope that the dampness will stop it dropping quite as fast as they generally do; this, naturally, means we need a sheet of plastic to protect the floor … oh it just gets more complicated by the second! But between us we get it all sorted out


    10. ‘that was complicated too

    11. “That would be too complicated to tell you, but my friend and I


    12. Later, lying in my cabin, rocked by the waves, I drowsily contemplate this complicated man


    13. Skin ageing is very complicated, and although


    14. Complicated? Yes, I’m afraid it is at first, but once you master the movements you will find it is likely to become one of your favourite asanas


    15. And I assure you that it looks somewhat more complicated on paper than in practice so study the illustrations carefully, one stage at a time, and check your posture before a mirror


    16. I hadn’t thought of that … Shit! this whole thing is so much more complicated than I anticipated


    17. It seems that a lot of it involves complicated commercial land purchases which he handles for developers


    18. I sigh, it all seems too complicated for words, maybe he would be better off if I just tell him I cannot marry him …


    19. Complicated or dangerous? Not at all


    20. 'This is more complicated than the usual viral fever

    21. It gets complicated by the whole sex thing and in today’s society, we’ve pretty well lost sight of it in the sexual bonanza


    22. it was very complicated


    23. Graham is out and Bill up to his eyes in something complicated so it falls to me to go and deal with her


    24. The roadworks are as complicated and time consuming as ever but I don't care


    25. The pre-natal rooms are operated on a similar basis though it is a little more complicated because of the communal nature of the set up


    26. Once they are out of the picture, it becomes more complicated


    27. The scene manager is a little more complicated, but not as complicated as the rendering engines it calls


    28. “Relationships are complicated, huh?”


    29. There's a diary entry which suggests that she feels any decent man would be disgusted with her, which is why she avoided any intimate relationship with anyone, although she appears to have had several opportunities, which, of course, must have complicated things horribly for her


    30. If what Dave suggested is a fact, that she and Alastair were lovers for years then life must have been complicated for her … I can’t imagine what it must be like having to keep your love secret

    31. Selling the house was a lot more complicated than I anticipated and I had to speak to him virtually on a daily basis at one time


    32. complicated from your world simply refuses to function over here


    33. began tapping his lips as if considering a complicated


    34. It’s quite a complicated show from a props point of view and, anxious to get my head round the story line and what and, more importantly, when props would be needed, I tended to hang around at the front during rehearsals


    35. Poor Terry, she was in such a frightful state and why? Because some ‘friend’ decided to stir things …that makes me angry … relationships are complicated enough without outside interference


    36. “Oh, that's a very complicated question


    37. completely resting the complicated gray matter between his ears, and nourishing


    38. be complicated and I can’t possibly remember everything


    39. Cars come at me for all directions, and they all seem to know where they are going … unlike me … getting into the right lane is complicated as all the markings are painted on the road and the cars are covering them


    40. Andy was doing something complicated with cymbals and grunted in my general direction without taking his eyes off what he was doing

    41. “It was shipboard, I didn’t think I’d want to make it complicated at that time


    42. ‘Yes … I reckon it’ll be complicated


    43. Dunderhead: That’s too complicated for my small mind to bear


    44. complicated that he could barely follow it, and – yes,


    45. ‘It’s a little complicated, but I’ll try to keep my story


    46. In the briefing room Felina3 was trying to access the records shortly before Dan went missing, but all she could find was a very complicated uploaded virus which had deleted most of the names on the database!


    47. But if you deal anywhere with any government, you find it is very complicated, very confusing and takes a long time


    48. Inside the room behind that balcony is a complicated crystal pillar with a luminescent panel protruding from it


    49. There were two separate interwoven parts, one of which had to change spectrum a couple times and there were impact notes mixed in with pressure notes, both in complicated patterns


    50. answering him, although it was a little complicated to













































    1. ‘How so? I can only see that it complicates things


    2. Which only complicates things


    3. “Your presence here, though welcome, complicates that


    4. ence of the person that complicates


    5. It changes and complicates the


    6. volume itself, the process of scientific reintegration necessarily complicates the very thing it is


    7. There is another factor involved, which complicates my attempt to properly discipline this turbulent and difficult young woman: as a scholar, and as a visual artist, Leoba is greatly gifted by God


    8. Despite of our face that complicates the game


    9. Despite of our face that complicates their case


    10. And the same loyalty (patriotism) which makes possible the evolution of the territorial state, vastly complicates the evolutionary development of the government of all mankind

    11. This complicates an already tricky love situation


    12. complicates the matter and doesn’t help at


    13. Also personal independence often complicates love


    14. This lack of realization complicates mourning


    15. Although the process is simple, what complicates life and reality for most everyone is that the originally associated experience gets overlaid thousands, upon thousands of times whereby the original event can no longer be consciously remembered


    16. "That really complicates the design of the attack," said Zorn


    17. but you really don’t need to know that because technically you’re in my before time, when I still thought I was human, and you shouldn’t really have any encounters with me in the before time, before I became aware of my Qness, because of temporal anomalies and such, and it just complicates things


    18. And, guess what, it complicates my life that much more, and now that you’re aware of the complications, you have a choice


    19. It complicates life,” Fielding, R


    20. What complicates matters is that among Muslims who are aware, Mohammed Ali Jinnah is regarded as a hero, along with Mahmud of Ghazni and Aurangzeb

    21. self? What complicates the matter even more is that the Kaurav are also


    22. His presence complicates matters and makes things much worse


    23. recognition of its upshots, which further complicates the identification of the injurious deed


    24. “This complicates things,” Smith said


    25. “Well this complicates things,” Damon said, and hit the table, trying to


    26. This innovation further complicates the picture of the Universe


    27. Big, rawboned Irishman who looks like Liam Neeson, he tails Mac and generally complicates her life


    28. But you have to understand that it unduly complicates the situation now that your brother has escaped from DB


    29. “Ah, but you have had a major fire, which complicates things


    30. Arbitrary Control of Dividend Policy Complicates Analysis of Common Stocks

    31. The use of TWS mode complicates the communication process enormously


    32. complicates interpretation of these results (O’Dell et al


    33. I should also add that the zero interest rate boundary (nominal rates cannot fall below zero or investors prefer their mattresses to banks) complicates yield curve analysis, including the relation between curve steepness and economic growth prospects


    34. Cross-sectional strategies, too, are often based on multiple indicators, and this again complicates analysis


    35. Since effective resolution of the parametric optimization problem requires selecting a single optimal node, including each additional utility function into the optimization system complicates this task significantly


    36. Although the return is usually reduced by a risk-free rate, we prefer to neglect it (using a risk-free rate complicates calculations without adding any supplementary benefit in assessing the strategy performance)


    37. This feature considerably complicates the comparison of such strategies


    38. Instead of transmitting by means of a melody the feelings he has experienced, a composer of the new school accumulates and complicates sounds, and by now strengthening, now weakening them, he produces on the audience a physiological effect of a kind that can be measured by an apparatus invented for the purpose


    1. in the body, further complicating the adverse affects tobacco brings


    2. What may make a settlement more likely is not just the other conflicts complicating the war


    3. She tried to put off having a child as long as she could after she wed, but circumstances had a way of complicating any plans, and so now the festival part would be Ninsan’s to do


    4. Complicating matters, the Mexican government had passed a law making it treason to negotiate with the United States


    5. Complicating matters, newly elected AZ Attorney General Bruce Babbitt who eventually was elected AZ Governor before serving as Bill Clinton’s Interior Secretary, telephoned me asking if we would be willing to stop over at Dixie’s parents’ house in Scottsdale en route to MS while he tried to convince newly elected Gov


    6. He was complicating


    7. Complicating matters further, ever since the retreat of the glaciers the southern end of the British Isles had been tilting downward while the north end rose—there was no certainty where land and sea had interfaced in the past


    8. of course other complicating factors; hospitals serving less privately insured


    9. A complicating factor was that many of the interwoven business units were legitimate operations that genuinely did not know what the parent company was doing and merely provided supplies to the other businesses as part of their own day to day operations


    10. If revisions are aimed at complicating the wording so as to elaborate

    11. You and your spouse, partner or current love are basically in harmony, but there could be dramas in your lives that are complicating things


    12. Complicating matters was the fact that negotiations with the various


    13. “Roy, darling, you’re complicating things way too much for yourself


    14. One of the challenges complicating the “dancing” was that the heat shield on the under side of the P I ships had to stay toward the Q ship


    15. Further complicating his dilemma was the fact that his killer was on the planet Eretz, the planet of the Jews


    16. The wind had picked up, causing more and more dunes as he went, further complicating his journey


    17. No one knew a man better than Petra Cotes knew her lover and she knew that the trunks would remain where they had been sent because if Aureliano Segundo detested anything it was complicating his life with modifications and changes


    18. � However, there are a number of complicating factors at play here


    19. In his experience in World War Two and in the Korean War, the various units of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Army Air Force couldn’t coordinate a joint operation without wanting to constantly refer to their respective higher commands, often delaying the planning of operations by days and greatly complicating coordination


    20. Complicating her decision process was the fact that she was now sure that someone, either from the Vesta Corporation or from the TCN, possibly Rear Admiral Parwan himself, had leaked her flight plan to those pirates

    21. She didn’t need him coming in her life again and complicating things


    22. Indeed, the Holy Qur'an has come with the highest and most perfect level of demonstration, organization and legislation, and within the limits that the Almighty has accepted to mankind where man should not turn wholly to the lower life and let it absorb all his bodily, spiritual, and intellectual abilities, for the foundation of the religious society and the atmosphere which man should live in and which agrees with his beliefs is that whose civilized standard should not come to the level of complicating and consuming all man's powers for only his lower life, since reaching such level produces dissension, injustice, pain, and wretchedness, exactly as we see nowadays, and such standard of living is considered corruption and causes corrupting, contenting oneself with the present life, and turning away from the aim which man has been created for


    23. In a nutshell, it did nothing more than complicating the lives of legit email marketers


    24. Complicating everything is that she only has one kidney, and they were factoring in all


    25. “I’m sorry that this is complicating your life more than usual


    26. Now there is such an irrational mixture of beliefs and disbeliefs, they hope to hide the fact of their existence by complicating things into a snarled mass of illogical knots which can never be untangled because of their hidden hands affecting the outcome of all things


    27. THE grave question in the title of this chapter is often discussed as if it were identical with that of the final salvation of all men; but the two lines of inquiry altogether differ, and nothing but confusion of thought can ensue from complicating them in one examination


    28. I had no time to explain all this to the viscount; besides, there was nothing to be gained by complicating the position


    29. These trades can offer outstanding reward/risk profiles, but, especially in short-term trades, it is important to remember that realized losses can sometimes be many multiples of the intended risk, significantly complicating the position sizing problem


    30. There is usually more noise on lower time frames, so be aware of this complicating factor

    31. One complicating factor is that this trader was not consistent in his risk


    32. Factors Complicating Efforts to Exploit General Market Swings


    33. NOTE One potentially complicating factor to this arrangement was when you connected 10Base-T hubs using thin Ethernet coaxial cable


    34. Further complicating things, it is difficult to calculate the exact amounts of fixed and variable costs: Even management has difficulty calculating exact amounts


    35. Yet the main complicating factor is the large black market for money transfer, or the informal segment


    36. The three main complicating factors are briefly described here


    37. Nevertheless, we hope that the reasons stated at the beginning of this chapter convinced you that this approach, intended to mitigate the effects of various complicating factors, represents an integral part of the criteria effectiveness evaluation process


    38. That allowed us to explain the material clearly and to avoid cross effects complicating the analysis of criteria forecasting qualities


    39. This is complicating isnt it but all you have to know is that what shows on the statements after this month is 20k down from what it actually has made :) - you'll see where I withdrew on the statement


    40. Complicating matters at this time for Marilyn was that, during a recent gynecologist’s exam, certain problems were discovered that might make having children difficult

    41. However, complicating things was that, in many ways, she had actually good reason to be paranoid


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    Synonyms for "complicate"

    complicate elaborate rarify refine perplex manipulate convolute contrive make intricate weave braid confound entangle confuse obscure muddle conceal tangle

    "complicate" definitions

    make more complicated


    make more complex, intricate, or richer