Sentence examples for checking the wrong from inspiring English sources

A third, Matt, responded by suggesting perhaps "we're checking the wrong box when we're filling out paperwork," meaning they'd be provided with social services they desperately need if they weren't white.

If you suspect you are on the list you may not know why and you can't find out, though it could be a case of an FBI agent checking the wrong box on a form.

An example of a slip is applying for an incorrect test due to checking the wrong box on the laboratory form.

After the match, she remained convinced that Engzell had checked the wrong ball mark, but declined to use the call as an excuse.

Suppose that just one homeland security immigration investigator had been assigned to check Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's background, instead of trying to catch a U.S. employer who might have checked the wrong box in an immigration form.

Funny how he got the job: you checked the wrong box on a confusing form, and the judge -- a close friend of the contractor -- ruled that you were stuck.

"I'd checked the wrong box when I signed up, and it was going into my savings, not into my checking".

Just ask Rahinah Ibrahim, a Stanford University student who ended up on a no-fly list in 2004 after an FBI agent accidentally checked the wrong box on a form.

But each time we hear that a client's application has been denied because he checked the wrong box or took family leave on the wrong day, we can't help but take it personally, because we do have skin in the game.

And I thought about those four Muslim Americans on the no-fly list because they refused to become FBI informants, and about Rahinah Ibrahim, a Malaysian student studying at Stanford University who ended up on the list because an FBI agent checked the wrong box on a form.

The feature space were partitioned into three regions, i.e., risk-free, risk-tolerable, and risk-intolerable regions by checking the RD loss due to wrong mode decision and the probability distribution of inter/intra modes.