Sentence examples for an erroneous idea from inspiring English sources

They go away with an erroneous idea of their predominance.

It is easy to call national sovereignty an "erroneous idea" in a flowery speech.

He points his finger upward, or wields a copy of the Koran, or swipes his hand in front of his chest to dismiss an erroneous idea.

Does this mean, when a fellow book lover gives you a book you hate, the person didn't really know you, or had an erroneous idea of you in their mind?

Lawyers not involved in the case said Wal-Mart would probably try to argue that Judge Jenkins should have decided that employment-related decisions at Wal-Mart are not made centrally, and so a class-action suit against the whole company is based on an erroneous idea.

Royce pointed out that in such a case the mind must contain an (erroneous) idea and its (false) object, while simultaneously intending, or "pointing toward," the idea's true object.

Advertisements and messages about the potentially harmful effects of e-cigarettes and their usefulness for reducing or eliminating smoking should be regulated and be based on scientific evidence to avoid creating any erroneous ideas about these devices in the general population.

Despite those ingredients, the premise never really has a chance, at least in the pilot, because although the script seems to have a specific (though erroneous) idea of what constitutes a suburban teenager, it doesn't bother to delineate Tessa's contrasting persona.

But calling it a divide perpetuates the erroneous idea that it could be bridged by some link such as HS2.

She has the erroneous idea that writing a book is a similarly remarkable achievement.

Madison wrote that such proclamations tend "to imply and certainly nourish the erroneous idea of a national religion".