Sentence examples for an erroneous view of from inspiring English sources

If the district court based its conclusion on an erroneous view of the law, the appellate court would be justified in concluding that it had abused its discretion.

"We find that the district court's findings depend on an erroneous view of the law," the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled.

He argued the Siac judges, chaired by Mr Justice Mitting, had taken an "erroneous" view of the position in Jordan and the legal tests that had to be applied.

A district court would necessarily abuse its discretion if it based its ruling on an erroneous view of the law or on a clearly erroneous assessment of the evidence.

"If a district court's findings rest on an erroneous view of the law, they may be set aside on that basis". Pullman-Standard v. Swint, supra, 456 U.S., at 287, 102 S.Ct., at 1789.

Nitrogen first was considered a chemical element by Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, whose explanation of the role of oxygen in combustion eventually overthrew the phlogiston theory, an erroneous view of combustion that became popular in the early 18th century.

The Commission's responsibility at all times is to measure applications by the standard of 'public convenience, interest, or necessity.' The Commission originally found respondent's application inconsistent with the public interest because of an erroneous view regarding the law of Pennsylvania.

A very shallow look at what gets in the way of men getting into therapy and a very erroneous view of social workers and marriage and family therapists.

To hold otherwise would reflect an anomalous and erroneous view of federal-state relations.

"Maybe this is what happens when you watch two-and-a-half seasons of a show in two-and-a-half weeks -- I guess I feel like I have a condensed (and possibly erroneous) view of what Harvey and Jessica would stand for.

Subjectivity (and its companion idea, intersubjectivity, which speaks specifically to the dynamic mentioned above) also gives us the requisite awareness to avoid the erroneous view of the oral historian as an enfranchising agent, or someone that gives voice to their subjects.