1. I think we're talking at cross-purposes.

2. The two friends find themselves at cross-purposes with the officials.

3. Administration officials insist the two policies are not at cross-purposes.

4. I wouldn't want us to find ourselves talking at cross-purposes.

5. The present system of managed floating does contain the possibility of direct conflict if official intervention is carried out at cross-purposes.

6. At the moment we are sick of politics with one faction at cross-purposes with another.

7. That one of the world's leading Chinese beauties was actually raised in England only makes Cheung more emblematic of the ex-colony's cross-purpose passions.