Sentence examples for believed wrongly to be from inspiring English sources

It was believed — wrongly — to be a cure for syphilis and thus was extremely valuable.

On this day in 2003, U.S. President George W. Bush ordered air strikes on Baghdad, thus launching the Iraq War to oust dictator Saddam Hussein, who was believed (wrongly) to be manufacturing weapons of mass destruction.

The Korean war was an American venture intended to contain the newly victorious Chinese government of Mao Zedong, believed, quite wrongly, to be Moscow's puppet.

Hoffmann, Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Prince and the Pauper," Poe's "William Wilson," and Dostoyevsky's "The Double" — his best book, according to Nabokov, who himself conjured up "Despair," in which a businessman kills a tramp whom he believes, quite wrongly, to be his doppelgänger.

This equals Acridine Orange (AO), which is falsely named a vital stain, and which stains nucleic acids either green (this was wrongly believed to be vital) or red (this was wrongly believed to be dead).

Uncomfortable with contradicting a man they believed (wrongly) was wildly popular with the public, most news organizations ended up giving Reagan a pass.

A woman has been charged with attempted murder after another woman was attacked at an art exhibition in what was wrongly believed to be performance art.

On May 20 , 2001 a poplar farm wrongly believed to be raising genetically engineered trees was set on fire.

A rare mistake by Evans enabled Salah to pounce on a Chris Brunt back pass that the defender wrongly believed to be bound for Ben Foster.

Mr Rose argues, counter-intuitively, that the pride the American military takes in marksmanship sometimes delays its acceptance of a more lethal new rifle which is (often wrongly) believed to be less accurate than existing ordnance.

Communications engineer Edward Devenney was told he had betrayed his country and his colleagues by meeting two men he wrongly believed to be Russian spies to discuss nuclear submarine secrets.