Sentence examples for applied to the wrong from inspiring English sources

It is said that perseverance is a good trait except when applied to the wrong aims.

States stored in memory will get jostled inadvertently, for example, and operations will be applied to the wrong quantum bit.

The dirty tricks include an attempted LSD ambush, a box of poisoned cigars and a powerful depilatory that ends up catastrophically applied to the wrong head.

But in the 20th century it came to be applied to the "wrong" kind of reader: overly effusive, academically untrained and often female.

But applied to the wrong cause, devotion to duty can lead to disaster.Such explanations may throw some light on the origins of the Holocaust, but they leave huge lacunae.

There is an important lesson to learn from that simple observation: much of the regulation we have is applied to the wrong people, in the wrong place, asks the wrong questions, and fails to identify the risk that the regulation is meant to control.

But Fitzgerald's dictum could be way, way wrong if applied to the 2016 Republican presidential race.

"To say that community property applies to the Dodgers is wrong," Victoria Cook said.

So wine-growers who assume their weather station data will apply to the whole vineyard will often be wrong.

One would also be wrong, because logic rarely applies to the most counterintuitive of sports.

Aly also said the same thinking gets applied to young Muslims where using the wrong words, having the wrong hobbies, or simply owning something with religious symbolism such as the Shahada, may all be used as "indicators" to mark out a Muslim as radicalised or extremist.