Sentence examples for benefit wrong from inspiring English sources

He said: If we had carried out a comprehensive spending review last year, we would have got our forecast for spending on unemployment benefit wrong by £15bn over the next five years... That's why the time for the spending review is not now.

And the technology might benefit the wrong people: "If biologists could have done for the dictators of the 20th century what they can now do for roundworms and flies — double their life span — then Mao Zedong might still be alive".

The heavy price that the government seeks to exact – indicting him under the Espionage Act as if he had sold secrets to an enemy with no chance of explaining the broader public benefit – is wrong.

"The research credit benefits the wrong companies and encourages the wrong kind of research," said Mr. Rashkin, a tax expert and executive at Marvell Technology, a company based in Santa Clara, Calif.

How easy it is for an anti-marijuana crusader to dismiss its medical benefits; how wrong he is to advocate denying me something that eases my suffering.

Some of these are complex inquiries where tenants are receiving the wrong benefit or require support through an appeal process.

The real challenge is to recognise, and address, how much the privileges of the past continue to benefit some, and wrong others, today.

"The state should not benefit from its wrong," explained Mr. Brennan, who reintroduced his bill on Feb. 3, his sixth attempt to get it passed.

America's actions then were driven by the cold war and were pragmatic, economic, and with the benefit of hindsight, wrong.

Perhaps the vehemence of the row, and the difficulty of resolving it, should point towards the fact that attacking child benefit is the wrong place to start dismantling the welfare state, even in these painfully austere times.

A system already prone to errors will be put under more pressure by the rapid pace of the government's welfare reforms, which is likely to result in more people denied support or on the wrong benefit.