Sentence examples for Deliberate misunderstanding from inspiring English sources

But some MPs believe that it was a deliberate misunderstanding.

"Do I look like a wrestler?" The deliberate misunderstanding did not fool them.

In the end, Standard Chartered has decided to pay a hefty settlement rather than risk an embarrassing and prolonged showdown, even though it had rejected Mr Lawsky's accusations as a deliberate misunderstanding of normal bank processes.

There is a history of accidental and deliberate misunderstanding in climate negotiations that has left deep scars, but leaders must overcome this legacy of mistrust by building on common ground in a genuine, fair and trusting way that is based on mutual responsibility – to ourselves and to billions around the world.

She was a decent version of that: deliberate misunderstanding of the questions, plus a few dutiful jabs with the pre-planned soundbites.

There is a history of accidental and deliberate misunderstanding in climate negotiations that has left deep scars, but leaders must overcome this legacy of mistrust by building on common ground in a genuine, fair and trusting way that is based on mutual responsibility -- to ourselves and to billions around the world.

Johnson's stories soon became full of the bloc's supposed absurdities — rules about straight bananas, fishermen wearing hairnets, an E.U. skyscraper two miles high — often confected or based on deliberate misunderstandings.

The tradition of deliberate partisan misunderstanding is now so well established that, partly as a consequence, the really difficult decisions end up in the courts, partly because these are one of the last places, along with the universities, where careful public thought can be applied to public policy.

Neither of these things was true, though whether the discrepancy was due to misunderstanding or deliberate obfuscation was never clear.

American officers admitted that they did step up their military presence in Najaf on July 19th, but only in order to protect a visiting defence official, Paul Wolfowitz. Whetheror not the misunderstanding was deliberate, Mr Sadr is indulging in brinkmanship.

And the Oceana study's authors also could not determine where in the food chain the mislabeling arose — the wholesaler, the retailer or at the fishing dock itself — or whether it came about through misunderstanding or deliberate concealment.