Sentence examples for a misguided order from inspiring English sources

Hume offers various criticisms, but a particularly fundamental objection is that Hobbes adopts a misguided order of explanation.

As he tells it, part of the problem has been misguided orders from presidents, like Eisenhower's demand in 1953 that the shah of Iran be restored to his throne.

In 1887, Phan concluded that his tactics were misguided, ordering his subordinates to cease open combat and resort to guerrilla tactics.

It's one thing when your doctor misdiagnoses you and prescribes a medication that aggravates your condition, but it's quite another when your government forces you to comply with that doctor's misguided orders.

First, the central bank ordered a maximum interest rate of 7% on peso loans, in a misguided attempt to decree confidence.

I also think of Longfellow's "Wreck of the Hesperus," in which a misguided sea captain ties his daughter to the mast of a ship in order to keep her safe during a hurricane.

Still, Anderson said Sexton had the choice to stand up to corrupt orders from superiors but instead participated in the conspiracy in "a misguided attempt to protect the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department".

What is usually, with a misguided anthropomorphism, called the will of God is in fact nothing other than this unchanging natural order.

It is a misguided hope.

It is a misguided decision.

This is a misguided argument.