Sentence examples for completely off base from inspiring English sources

As Romney said Wednesday on Fox News, "I respond to the attacks that come, but they say in politics if you are responding, you are losing," adding that it was better to call them "completely off base".

Fortunately, the polls are rarely completely off base.

While Mr. Netanyahu's remarks were inaccurate, he was not completely off base.

"Little Helpers Aren't Enough: Santa Needs an Image Expert" (Dec. 21) is completely off base.

But then again, I have only had this theory for a few moments, and it may be completely off base.

In other words, the Hellenization of our economic discourse, in which we're all just a year or two of deficits from becoming another Greece, is completely off base.

Mr. Kuykendall says that the advertisement is "completely off-base" and that he has a solid history of supporting comprehensive medical care programs for older people.

As it turns out, nosy strangers are not completely off-base: a growing body of research shows that a baby's experiences in utero can have long-term consequences (something we reported in depth here).

He added: "Mr Trump's message and all of the behaviour that I have witnessed over the two decades that I have known him have consistently been pro-Jewish and pro-Israel and accusations otherwise are completely off-base".

Completely off-base was Mr. Korb's claim that "had Gabreski been closed, its operations could easily have been moved to the Stewart Air Base in Newburgh, N.Y., thus keeping jobs from going out of state".

Still, while the original proponents of the doctrine won't ever admit that they were wrong — my experience is that nobody in the political world ever admits to having been wrong about anything — you might think that having been so completely off-base about something so central to their belief system would have caused the Austrians to lose popularity, even within the G.O.P.