Mistaken
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628 examples of Mistaken in a sentence
Affluent Gulf Cooperation Council countries would be
mistaken
to assume that they are exempt from their neighbors’ public-health problems.
It is based on the
mistaken
belief that a newly muscular United States has all the leverage in dealing with its presumed adversary, and that any Chinese response is hardly worth considering.
The first is inertia, combined with (or disguised as) idealism – the
mistaken
idea that the Internet should be free not just for speech, but also from payment.
It is conceivable that they would do so in a
mistaken
fit of financial orthodoxy.
But consider another possibility: suppose that the financial regulator is
mistaken
in its approach to a particular issue.
It is that the law is based on the
mistaken
view that homosexuality is immoral.
Moreover, the Fund was
mistaken
in assuming that “Europe is different,” and that “sudden stops could not happen within the euro area.”
They are
mistaken.
To doubt this was not just mistaken, but unpatriotic, even “anti-Chinese.”
Recent survey data and a detailed study by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) suggest that both of these oversimplified views are
mistaken.
These fears have turned out to be
mistaken.
Except in extreme cases, confidence cannot cause a bad policy to have good results, and a lack of it cannot cause a good policy to have bad results, any more than jumping out of a window in the
mistaken
belief that humans can fly can offset the effect of gravity.
But Trump is
mistaken
to think that championing the cause of miners and paying respect to a difficult profession will be sufficient to make mining sustainable.
But this assumption was
mistaken.
There are three reasons why the traveler’s impression that the euro is overvalued is
mistaken.
By contrast, suppressing the freedom of speech of Islam’s critics merely gives rise to the suspicion that evidence and sound argument cannot show their arguments to be
mistaken.
In a sense, Pussy Riot created a simulacrum of a punk-rock group, a piece of performance art about anonymous protest musicians being
mistaken
for real musicians by real musicians.
Assertions by Republican Party leaders that excessive social support is the primary culprit – a favorite theme of vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan – are just as
mistaken
as Democratic Party leaders’ claim that permitting tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans to expire at the end of this year would cure all.
Likewise, the European Central Bank’s decision not to cut rates – deluding itself that it may be able to raise them once the allegedly “temporary” credit crunch is gone – is
mistaken.
It is also why it is
mistaken
to speak of a formal G-2 with China, rather than multilateral cooperation.
It is too late to undo the bad forecasts and
mistaken
policies that have marked the aftermath of the financial crisis, but it is not too late to do better.
Trust between intelligence services is a perishable commodity; indeed, there is an implicit threat that a betrayal, or even a
mistaken
disclosure, can sever the relationship then and there.
And they should always disclose their interests, so that proprietary analysis is not
mistaken
for an independent perspective.
In February 2013, then-White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan testified at his Senate confirmation hearing to become CIA Director that, “in the interest of transparency,” the US must acknowledge
mistaken
killings publicly.
The idea that there could forever be two Europes - one democratic, stable, prosperous and integrated; one less democratic, less stable, less prosperous and isolated - is
mistaken.
Emmanuel Macron, the NovelPARIS – Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the French presidential election could be
mistaken
for the plot of a novel that no publisher would accept.
And the real price of 9/11 may be the opportunity costs: for most of the first decade of this century, as the world economy gradually shifted its center of gravity toward Asia, the US was preoccupied with a
mistaken
war of choice in the Middle East.
But if skeptics forget Mark Twain’s famous response to a
mistaken
obituary – “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated” – were the negotiators who have continued to work since then akin to Gogol’s “dead souls?”
So was the Royal Academy of Sciences
mistaken
in not giving its award of a Nobel Prize to Einstein for what most people would consider his most important intellectual discovery?
But they are
mistaken
to believe that preserving this government is safer.
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