head-scratching

There's been much head-scratching in the City over who might take the job now.

But how we get there from here was the cause of much head-scratching.

Today, though, the Chinese military is inspiring…well, a lot of head-scratching.

All this is causing some head-scratching in the investment community.

I suspect that even within the bank, there was a certain amount of head-scratching.

These deals will give an analyst many happy hours of head-scratching.

This generated 45 different results and caused much head-scratching around the world.

And a good deal of head-scratching among people who follow the consumer electronics industry.

"There was a lot of head-scratching when that appeared," an official told me yesterday.

It is a measure of Panesar’s recent decline that such conditions give rise to head-scratching.

Still, for many consumers, the options have only intensified the head-scratching.

The story which is causing fresh anxiety in the City this morning (and also a bit of head-scratching).

It took a bit of head-scratching, but then the Highbulp remembered.

There is now going to be a serious amount of head-scratching among European academics and politicians on the best ways forward for green energy.

Not that celebrities provide the only reason for some head-scratching about justice's vagaries.

The first to prompt doctor head-scratching was in 2008, a study of the drug Crestor.

This is not a policy question that generates a lot of head-scratching among mainstream economists.

On Thursday, after some head-scratching over the unusual claim, the company finally came through, settling for $12,000.

These asset-allocation patterns have triggered a lot of head-scratching at the bank.

Lapses in the past few years run from the heart-wrenching to the head-scratching.

There were some good hypotheses, but plenty of head-scratching.

The other thing that caused a bit of head-scratching was the amount of starter needed.

Many school buses do not have seat belts, and there has been much head-scratching over this issue in the last two decades.

You may imagine that this caused plenty of head-scratching among the Telmarines.

As a result, the effect can often switch from jaw-dropping to head-scratching (and back again) very quickly.

At first the questions were of the small and head-scratching variety.

Until recently, many services came with a number of head-scratching limitations.

The internal report details what went wrong, and it is head-scratching.

The most head-scratching element of the night was the venue.

A quiet practice day before a low-key Test is usually head-scratching time.

And a number of other prominent executives could soon be added to that head-scratching list.

There was never going to be a head-scratching decision in the co-feature.

So much about Tomic is head-scratching, and this moment was no different.

When the action returns to Manuel, there are more head-scratching moments.

It boils down to a series of head-scratching questions about love that Americans are asking in 2010.

Twenty Republican presidential debates later, the head-scratching claims kept coming.

At least something is happening after decades of head-scratching and inaction in action.

It should make all that head-scratching arithmetic less of a burden for the board.

That was until the final two minutes, when he committed three straight head-scratching gaffes.

Brandon's reasoning this episode was head-scratching, to say the least.

Too bad the results are more head-scratching than amusing.

Use of apparently familiar English vocabulary is something else that offers endless head-scratching potential.

Blake's 0-for-4 showing is head-scratching considering he started out with a stronger touch.

And in the case of the Vikings that isn’t difficult, as management is prone to making head-scratching selections.

Some experts, however, think American investigators may have been hurt by the jury's somewhat head-scratching conclusion.

Then they vanished into the hot Valley night, leaving head-scratching discussions as to where, or what, exactly is the lobby.

That first play was a harbinger of this game's head-scratching storyline.

A cruel, head-scratching end, to be sure, and one that will be talked about for years to come.

Somewhere, in this sea of similes and long head-scratching sentences, is a simple story.

But the way the incident played out was one more head-scratching event that added to the team's mounting pressure and frustration.