Sentence examples for a misapplication from inspiring English sources

Ms. Goldman sees the policy as overcautious and as a misapplication of the law.

This is a misapplication of language that Hannah Smith regards as deeply insulting.

"What I saw was a misapplication of just criminal proportions," Mr. Butler said.

Enron has said that a misapplication of that rule accounted for most of the improperly reported profits.

Where Blumer argued that polling rests on a misapplication of social science, Rogers argued that it rests on a misunderstanding of American democracy.

In addition, stretching the meaning of certain terms in the definition, such as a group "in part" and "destroy," also suggests a misapplication of the word "genocide".

These dialectical presumptions include the attempt to infer from the contingent (within experience) to some cause lying outside the world of sense altogether, an effort involving a transcendental misapplication of the categories.

This week, Mo Mowlam has admitted to smoking cannabis as a student, the footballer Maradona has gone into a Cuban clinic for his cocaine habit, and in a gross misapplication of justice, two charity workers at a Cambridge drop-in centre for the homeless have been sentenced to a total of nine years imprisonment for failing to take "reasonable steps" to prevent drug-dealing on the premises.

Proper reasons to restate financial figures include the discovery of new facts, like side letters that change the way a contract should be accounted for, or a clear misapplication of generally accepted accounting principles.

If cycling laws were a wise response to actual cycling rather than a clumsy misapplication of motor vehicle laws, I suspect that compliance, even by me, would rise.

v. Casey, It would be unfortunate, however, if those who disagree with the result were induced to regard it as merely a regrettable misapplication of Casey.