Examples of 'cross purposes' in a sentence
Meaning of "cross purposes"
Describes a situation where two or more people or groups are working towards incompatible or conflicting goals. It implies a lack of coordination or miscommunication leading to a counterproductive or uncooperative outcome
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- plural of cross purpose.
- Conflicting, or contrary meanings or ideas, usually arising unintentionally.
How to use "cross purposes" in a sentence
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But we can not be working at cross purposes.
Working at cross purposes should stop.
It was suddenly arranged and everything was at cross purposes.
We were at cross purposes just now.
They talked for hours at cross purposes.
Two factors operating at cross purposes continued to worsen the social condition in the region.
There is nothing to be gained by us working at cross purposes.
Your agenda isat cross purposes with god 's work.
We have been talking for hours at cross purposes.
At cross purposes like ours ever meet?
I mostly do not want us working at cross purposes.
At cross purposes again. I think we're talking.
I think we are talking at cross purposes again.
Unfortunately, lack of communication and co-ordination amongst the groups sometimes put them at cross purposes.
We seem to be talking at cross purposes here.
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It soon became apparent that we were speaking at cross purposes.
Talking about your love life would run at cross purposes with your invisible man routine.
Let me just give you one example of how these are working at cross purposes.
Thus science and religion talk at cross purposes concerning intangibles.
So the countless warplanes buzzing over and bombing Syria are flying at cross purposes.
We can no longer afford to work at cross purposes as separate states.
Sir Nigel Rodley said he believed the Committee was arguing at cross purposes.
Government austerity responses work at cross purposes to the decent work agenda.
We even read that the CIA and Pentagon were working at cross purposes.
If by square, by creating tension and cross purposes which may test your resolve.
In principle, marketing and customer service would seem to be at cross purposes.
Sometimes, they're at cross purposes of one another.
That would give me three clients at cross purposes.
We were at cross purposes just now . Hello!
Let us stop working at cross purposes.
Again, the bladder contracting muscles and the urethral sphincter are operating at cross purposes.
By us working at cross purposes.
The court has been exploited by counsel for cross purposes.
I know we've seemed at cross purposes lately, General.
Without a common language, the best we will do is to talk at cross purposes.
The two men are at cross purposes.
There are likely multiple reasons-recognize when and how they may work at cross purposes.
The Navy and the Air Service were at cross purposes regarding the tests.
To some extent these factors work at cross purposes.
Surely they were at cross purposes.
Then he and Jennifer crash the wedding, though they are at cross purposes.
US economic policies are now firmly at cross purposes to one another.
Okay . There is nothing to be gained by us working at cross purposes.
Satan says, I will work at cross purposes with God.
Worse, they sometimes end up working at cross purposes.
We have been talking at cross purposes.
I do not know what 's going on, but they are talking at cross purposes.
Oh… We're talking at cross purposes.
A young woman… Torn between them. Two gentlemen, Find themselfs at cross purposes.
I am afraid we are at cross purposes.
