Sentence examples for being of the wrong from inspiring English sources

More than half their teachers had been fired for being of the wrong sex.

Yet the real crime in Zimbabwe is not being of the wrong race, writes Lindsey Hilsum in the New Statesman, but being in the wrong party.

"They're saying things like, 'as Palestinians, we know what it's like to be targeted and killed for being of the wrong ethnicity'".

I did not know then that being of the wrong ethnic minority group (Chinese) and the wrong religion (Catholic) I would not be able to easily attend college because of the ethnic quota system that favors ethnic Malays.

Others go along simply because they don't want to stand out from the crowd and be singled out as being of the "wrong" religion or not being religious.

In light of the above discussion of NIPT results being potentially used to abort healthy female fetuses just because of being of the 'wrong' sex, it is clear that DTC-tests for early fetal sex determination should be regarded with concern, given that those who only want to know what color to paint the baby room will have ample opportunity to learn about the sex of the fetus later in pregnancy.

Kasich suggested that maybe their degrees were of the wrong kind, or simply wrong for the region.

There was a lot of fossil fuel there, but it was of the wrong sort.

There is a failure of intentional action only when intermediaries are of the wrong kind.

(Misconnections might be subdivided into micro-connections, which are of the wrong magnitude such as the photons, and pseudo-connections, which are of the wrong sort such as the paint).

However, the certainty of death achieved by idle talk of this kind is of the wrong sort.