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Muslim religious and political leaders have the intellectual capital to refute their misplaced religious convictions, and can repeat sura after sura, hadith after hadith, detailing Islam's rejection of violence and repudiation of the killing of innocents.
The way to square this apparent circle is by noting that we love our motherland not because of a misplaced sense of ethnic or racial superiority, but because it stands for noble and universal values.
The belief that Russians desire an authoritarian leader is also misplaced.
And under presidents de Gaulle, Pompidou, and Giscard d'Estaing that faith was not misplaced.
The bad news is that the IEA’s optimism about unconventional sources could be misplaced.
But simplistic free-market optimism is misplaced for at least four reasons.
Iraq provides numerous examples of the dangers created by misplaced priorities.
They view the state as soft, pandering to minorities out of misplaced Westernized secularism.
These concerns, while understandable, are misplaced.
The misplaced fear that allowing opioids to be used in hospitals will fuel addiction and crime in the community has led to tight restrictions on their use, and clinicians are not trained to provide them when they are needed.
But, to the extent that a misplaced focus on country rankings becomes a barrier to sensible policy, it can do real damage.
The heated discussions about austerity of recent years have been misplaced, with both critics and official cheerleaders overestimating the amount of austerity applied.
Asia needs Roosevelt-style reassurance, not a misplaced financial orthodoxy.
Those fears are not completely misplaced.
When you weigh this against the possibility of the development of the drug industry’s Next Big Thing or, at the very least, a new method to produce high-value compounds at low cost, regulators’ preoccupation with such unlikely events appears to be misplaced.
That optimism was sorely misplaced.
The global food crisis of 2007-2008 was a warning of what the future may hold in store if we continue with business as usual, including misplaced opposition to the use of modern science in food and agriculture.
Cool economic logic should come before misplaced political pride.
This faith is sadly – and dangerously – misplaced.
But the perception that fragility presages failure is misplaced.
Once again, we see how misplaced Western national priorities can bring ruin on a non-Western nation.
This fear is misplaced.
In the end, there is no way around it: If Congress does not like trade deficits, it needs to address America’s saving problem and stop fixating on misplaced concerns over currency manipulation.
That allegiance is misplaced.
There were dire – though ultimately misplaced – predictions about chaotic conditions for participants, and then, of course, the catastrophic performance of the home team.
Another common reason for the collective misperception is misplaced nostalgia.
But they stem largely from misplaced generalizations.
This suggests an important advantage of the euro for Germany, where misplaced nostalgia for the deutsche mark -- no doubt aided by the steady invective against the common currency by government officials -- is growing.
That belief turned out to be misplaced, to say the least.
The Federal Reserve, having taken interest rates down to spectacularly low levels—in part, because of misplaced fears about deflation-- started the interest rate normalization process too late.
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