Sentence examples for decisively wrong from inspiring English sources

With Labour voting for the government's bill to cap welfare spending, the debate on the welfare state has taken a decisively wrong turn.

One of the truisms of contemporary pop culture is that just when you think it couldn't get any worse, its purveyors any more shameless, you are proved decisively wrong.

But after he flicks the switch, she's proven decisively wrong: The safe crumples under the force of the press and shatters into pieces.

Contemporary biography has always been a tricky balancing act, even before Paula Broadwell demonstrated with her book about David H. Petraeus how the scales can tip decisively the wrong way.

H.W. Houweling, Monnickendam, Netherlands Vali Nasr is right in "Forcing Obama's Hand in Syria" (Views, Sept. 2) that this is "a defining moment for American foreign policy" and that "America should act decisively," but wrong in arguing for a military strike.

The Platonic vision can persist in economics because economic models are mathematical (in that sense Platonic), and you can never decisively prove them wrong.

Ironically, in areas of science where researchers believe that a new piece of evidence might decisively prove them wrong, they are perhaps more circumspect with their suggestions.

But there's a very well-known narrative when it comes to therapy and the relief of suffering – and it leaves Pollens and his fellow psychoanalysts decisively on the wrong side of history.

In 2004 any Democratic opponent of George Bush will make much of unemployment, tax cuts for the rich and the failure to deal decisively with corporate wrong-doing.

But he decisively proved that supposition wrong with "Written on Skin," which was enthusiastically received at its premiere in July at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

Rarely have two people so clearly placed themselves on the wrong side of history as decisively as Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett did through their article about Iran.