Sentence examples for costly false from inspiring English sources

On Wednesday, officials briefly began three men's singles matches in what proved a costly false start.

Given the prevalence of cancer, it's not surprising that those affected are frequently the target of outlandish and costly false cures.

Here's the abstract: Public officials with the authority to order hurricane evacuations face a difficult trade-off between risks to life and costly false alarms.

Regardless, they are likely to be costly "false trails".

Costly false negative errors ('no sniper: we are safe') occur frequently across different domains.

Similar to Wolfe et al. (2007), this manipulation increased the hit rate, but also increased the rate of potentially costly false alarms, suggesting that it produced a shift in decision criterion rather than an increase in sensitivity.

"The findings of this research suggest that the traditional assumption that action on climate change is net-costly is false.

In science, being 'pretty sure' about such things isn't acceptable and can lead to the costly rework or false labelling of data.

Republicans claim that preexisting conditions will be covered, but most independent analysts say coverage will be diminished, watered down, inexplicably costly, lending a false promise of coverage to the reality of a return to the terrifying days before the ACA took effect.

Kallabatoon and laces are used for the costly pipes and false (jhuta) lace is used for the common ones.

In this signal-detection metaphor, a low threshold for activation of the fight-or-flight response, though energetically costly during a false alarm (anxiety or panic attack), can prevent the far higher fitness cost of being killed by a predator or conspecific.