Mistaken
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For some, this stance reflects the benefits that they would gain from such purchases; for others, it reflects
mistaken
beliefs.
But if Macri believes that downplaying the importance of climate change is what his country needs, he is sorely
mistaken.
It would be a grave mistake, for example, to sell out Ukraine’s interests and lift the sanctions imposed on Russia out of the
mistaken
belief that the Kremlin’s assistance is needed in Syria.
Bush is right to claim that people in the Middle East would like to be as prosperous and free as the South Koreans, but his notion that the war in Iraq is simply a continuation of US policies in Asia could not be more
mistaken.
So President Vaclav Havel courageously argued during his first trip to Germany in January 1990, but his comments were
mistaken
for weakness.
To assume a constant level and composition of labor demand would be as
mistaken
as taking current passenger demand as a fixed reference point in planning public-transportation systems.
Finally, a benchmark index helps active investors to devise a deliberate strategy to depart from the median investor’s view when they believe that view to be
mistaken.
But the GDP-weighted index should not be
mistaken
for a neutral benchmark.
Any thought of concession or compromise is gravely
mistaken.
They included misguided government interference with markets, high income and capital gains taxes,
mistaken
monetary policy, pressures towards high wages, monopoly, overstocked inventories, uncertainty caused by the reorganization plan for the Supreme Court, rearmament in Europe and fear of war, government encouragement of labor disputes, a savings glut because of population shrinkage, the passing of the frontier, and easy credit before the depression.
In September 2008, the wave of failures and near-failures at global banks (and insurance companies and mutual funds) demonstrated that this view was deeply
mistaken.
At that time, successive rounds of negotiations failed, owing to an all-or-nothing mentality, based largely on the
mistaken
assumption that Assad, like Tunisia's Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, would be ousted relatively quickly.
Just as the war in Iraq was a
mistaken
response to the threat of al-Qaeda, the Bush administration’s green light to Israel’s military assaults in Gaza and Lebanon offers no real solution.
The continuing existence of large strategic nuclear forces deployed on high alert, and of tactical nuclear weapons deployed in certain NATO states and Russia, creates a risk of accidental, unauthorized, or
mistaken
use, and of terrorist groups acquiring these assets.
This argument is also
mistaken.
In the case of the Iraq war, Blair has never conceded that the war was
mistaken
in conception or disastrous in practice: for him, it was still “the right thing to do.”Blair leaves office before the full consequences of the Iraq war have been played out.
Such simple extrapolations of current economic growth rates often turn out to be
mistaken
because of unforeseen events.
Overly optimistic economic projections based on
mistaken
assessments of the global economy’s ailments thus threaten recovery prospects – with potentially far-reaching consequences.
If we spend vast amounts of money on carbon cuts in the
mistaken
belief that we are stopping malaria and reducing malnutrition, we are less likely to put aside money for the direct policies that would help today.
As the economist Lionel Robbins recalled: “Confronted with the freezing deflation of those days, the idea that the prime essential was the writing down of
mistaken
investments and…fostering the disposition to save was…as unsuitable as denying blankets and stimulus to a drunk who has fallen into an icy pond, on the ground that his original trouble was overheating.”
Second, the credo “Trade, not aid” has given way to the
mistaken
belief that trade matters less than foreign assistance.
The beating death of Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American who was
mistaken
for a Japanese, also resonated historically, recalling a pseudo-scientific article on how to distinguish the Chinese from the Japanese that Life magazine published in December 1941.
In response to China’s rapid rise and the assertiveness of its Communist Party leadership, the current conventional wisdom portrays Japan as a country of secondary importance – which is equally
mistaken.
However, we were not
mistaken
when we argued that Communism was not a mere dead end of Western rationalism.
Web search engines are the only mechanism with which to navigate this avalanche of information, so they should not be
mistaken
for an optional accessory, one of the buttons to play with, or a tool to locate the nearest pizza store.
If this is Blair’s calculation, he is
mistaken.
But that common wisdom is grossly mistaken, because British law grants immigrants from all the Commonwealth countries something extraordinary: the right to vote in British elections, even national ones.
That fear is understandable, but the premise is
mistaken.
Freud’s biographer, Ernest Jones, was
mistaken
in calling Freud “the Darwin of the mind.”
You would be
mistaken
if you imagined that bureaucrats in Chile and Colombia had more important things to do than restricting immigration.
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