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Misleading in sentence

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Mobil’s message was misleading, but was the analysis that Bernstein and Montgomery authored truly flawed?
Decline is a misleading metaphor.
The US economy grew rapidly for several years after WWII with a higher debt/GDP ratio, and today’s ratio is lower than in all other major industrial countries (and roughly half that of Greece, analogies to which are absurd and misleading).
Although I cannot claim to be an expert on Chinese economic statistics, I think these headlines are a natural but misleading consequence of the authorities’ intentional effort to shift China’s economic structure away from industrial expansion and exports toward greater reliance on services and household consumption.
They are misleading and dangerous, not only because the crisis in the labor market is not yet over, but also because they contribute to complacency, thereby reducing pressure for reform.
The response to 9/11 and to Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s recent encounter with an African chambermaid in a New York hotel have very little in common, except for one thing: once again, cultural conflict was invoked in a misleading way.
Given this structural weakness, the idea of a new Cold War is misleading.
Third, it is misleading to argue for a certain amount of immigration in terms of the need to fill certain high-tech or other positions.
The report was correct but misleading, for it failed to mention why there is so little inflation in the US today.
Moreover, linear projections of economic growth trends can be misleading.
Moreover, it is misleading to single out the most misguided comments by individual governors in the context of an active intellectual debate over policy.
But this view is misleading, particularly in the current economic situation.
The name is highly misleading.
Although unequal relationships between the US and weaker powers certainly exist and can be conducive to exploitation, the term "imperial" is not only inaccurate but misleading in the absence of formal political control.
So the US should avoid the misleading metaphor of empire as a guide to its foreign policy.
In that sense, the metaphor of war - with its emphasis on military force is - misleading.
Macron’s large margin of victory over Le Pen is misleading, as it obscures French society’s enduring fragmentation and polarization.
It would be similarly misleading to attribute T3’s success to China alone.
Then there was Trump’s firing of Comey in May, followed by misleading statements from White House aides regarding why he had done so.
But to make too much of them in cases such as those of Merah or Breivik can be misleading.
Exxon and others sponsored misleading journalism and groups that masqueraded as “think tanks.”
(This is also why simple calculations based on costs per kWh are often grossly misleading, helping to make wind and other intermittent renewables appear to be cheaper than they are.)
To try to enforce a single definitive interpretation is deeply misleading, and thus unhelpful – and potentially dangerous – in policymaking.
But any import boom creates a misleading impression of the local economy’s productive capacity.
Shouldn’t they worry that categorical statements such as those above may prove to be misleading in at least some settings?
Similarly, much like the misleading “ticking time bomb” scenario has served to rationalize torture, the “imminent massacre” argument is used to justify immediate intervention.
Such content is not just polarizing; it is often misleading and incendiary, and there are signs that it can undermine constructive democratic discourse.
The world is awash in information, some of it accurate, some misleading.
In fact, some of this supposed evidence was misleading, because it reflected nothing more than a change in regulatory standards that had brought hidden loans to the surface.
As a result, he concluded, highly complex models may regularly yield misleading information.
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