Cross Purposes

The automakers are pushing new technologies that are at cross-purposes to safety. ❋ Catherine Lutz (2011)

The Republicans seem more monolithic than ever, but the Dems have never (in my adult life) seemed so much in disarray and acting at such obvious cross-purposes with each other. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But as we and other organizations have observed, a lack of transparency, visibility, and basic data -- not to mention the lack of a lead coordinating agency for contingency operations -- has caused or contributed to duplication, gaps, and cross-purposes, and has permitted unnecessary incidents of waste, fraud, and abuse. ❋ David Isenberg (2010)

It was a weird movie, full of characters talking at cross-purposes and moving around a lot without actually seeming to say or do anything that moved the story along. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Spitzer and Bruno, the scandal-plagued former Republican Senate Majority Leader, found themselves at cross-purposes from the very beginning of Spitzer's term. ❋ Asher Smith (2011)

Despite what the founders idiotically though, having different aspects of the government working at cross-purposes does not actually make for better governance. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Pressured by government justice officials to work sensitive cases, often at cross-purposes with his own cantankerous police boss, Zen walks a precarious tightrope. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Some are pioneering new delivery systems that encourage providers to coordinate patient care, rather than work at cross-purposes with little communication. ❋ Laura Landro (2011)

“What happens is, sometimes at cross-purposes, you got one hand doing one thing and one hand doing the other, both trying to do the right thing but working without a good outcome,” he said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

MIke J, I think we are talking at cross-purposes here. ❋ Unknown (2009)