Sentence examples for costly wrong from inspiring English sources

It's raining - not particularly hard - single wipers most of the way from Leeds, where a costly wrong turning in the centre almost made me fashionably late.

We took a costly wrong turn, and by the time we returned to the main road, Route 36, we had lost an hour.

External strategy advice can be costly — and wrong.

But whether it's restrictive or reasonable, it still exists and can still prove incredibly costly in the wrong spot.

Human-rights groups, and a few in Mr Howard's own party, denounced the strategy: asylum-seekers could languish in the remote camps for years.The critics included Ms Gillard, who once called the Pacific Solution "costly, unsustainable and wrong".

Elder abuse in all its forms is ugly, painful, costly and simply wrong.

It can end in tears, tempers and, if you get it wrong, a costly employment tribunal.

To do so is expensive, difficult and costly if it goes wrong, not to mention environmentally demanding.

To the extent that people misjudge themselves, they may suffer costly consequences by pursuing wrong paths and missing opportunities to take advantage of skills they truly own.

While this information can bring critical insights to pharma companies; it can also lead them down a wrong and costly path if it turns out to be fake or unsubstantiated.

Some conservatives have pushed that critique further, saying that Mr. Obama's policies are too costly, often assist the wrong people and could have the paradoxical effect of driving up college costs.