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Misleading in sentence

432 examples of Misleading in a sentence

First, the idea of a Japanese-style “lost decade” is misleading – even when applied to Japan.
Here, too, the US, where higher house prices stimulate consumption, is a misleading example for Europe.
Elected officials hard-wired misleading projections by excising from current law expensive policies that they had every intention of pursuing.
He even rejects the conclusions of Eurostat, the European statistical agency, that Greece provided misleading budget data in 2009.
But this scientific hierarchy is false and misleading: we now know that biology contains more mathematics than we ever imagined.
This historical analogy, though increasingly popular, is misleading.
Yet the term “natural” was misleading.
But headlines can be misleading.
But these measures are misleading, because they do not account for many of the things that matter to societies, such as equality, social mobility, or sustainability.
The analogy is misleading.
Supporters of both nominal GDP targeting and product-price targeting claim that IT sometimes gave the public the misleading impression that it would stabilize the cost of living, even in the face of supply shocks or terms-of trade-shocks, over which it had no control.
But, much as the Bush administration tried to hide the true costs of the war by incomplete and misleading accounting, the economy’s flaws were covered up by a flood of liquidity from the Federal Reserve and by lax financial regulation.
Observational studies that compare outcomes for patients who receive particular treatments and control subject who do not rank higher, but may still be misleading.
These recommendations, based on physiological and observational studies, proved profoundly misleading.
The clash between these two blocs is both real and misleading.
The recent rise in existing home sales in the US may also be misleading, since a large proportion are sales of foreclosed properties.
They offer a grand narrative as well as concrete, if misleading and often dangerous, solutions.
But this proposition may be dangerously misleading.
Indeed, the protagonists of caste politics and caste-based public policy simply cannot validate their assertions, offering only small-sample surveys that can be grossly misleading in the context of a huge country characterized by monumental diversity.
Yet, by denying the obvious fact that the eurozone’s viability depends on substantial restraints on sovereignty, Europe’s leaders are misleading their voters, delaying the Europeanization of democratic politics, and raising the political and economic costs of the ultimate reckoning.
The debate about austerity and the high cost of public debt is thus misleading on two accounts.
But these ostensibly alarming figures can be misleading.
Those who voted for Bush may not be as outraged by American involvement in torture, or the misleading information about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and connections with Al Qaeda, as those abroad.
That’s why Robert Kagan’s 2003 neo-conservative proposition, “Americans are from Mars, Europeans from Venus,” offered such a misleading guide.
Aside from the risks to interviewers collecting such data during a conflict, these include the selection bias of households in the sample, a lack of credible population data to which to apply the changed mortality rates, and mistaken or misleading accounts by participants.
But this is misleading: the European social model is, in fact, part and parcel of the identity of the EU member states more than of the EU per se.
Decline is a misleading metaphor for today’s America, and Obama fortunately has rejected the suggestion that he should pursue a strategy aimed at managing it.
More than 50 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, and misleading expectations, are about to recreate this pattern of underdevelopment in Bolivia.
However, as I have stressed here and elsewhere, this “stability” is misleading.
Giving Democracy the FingerDENVER – Some of the most iconic – and perhaps misleading – news images of the twenty-first century were of smiling Iraqis holding up their purple-ink-stained index fingers to show that they had voted in their country’s January 2005 election.
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