Sentence examples for based on a mistake from inspiring English sources

In fact, this case was based on a mistake.

No: the spelling of "island" is based on a mistake.

Eno's production of this transparent, polyrhythmic light box, it turns out, is based on a mistake — his own.

The objection as I have put it forward, though it explains much of the initial resistance many feel toward contextualism, is based on a mistake.

Most of us care about our future because it is ours — but this most fundamental human instinct is based on a mistake, Parfit believes.

"Do you think that President Clinton should be condemned for the rest of his life based on a mistake he made in his life?" Sanford asked during a recent debate with his opponent, the Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch.

When applied to experimental situations, it meant that one could get apparently confirming results from a poorly executed experiment or one that is based on a mistaken hypothesis.

But this thesis is based on a mistaken premise.

But it is based on a mistaken premise.

The former president insists this is based on a mistaken assumption.

Yet it is settled that a certificate of citizenship based on a mistaken finding of five years residence is subject to revocation.