Sentence examples for he is off base from inspiring English sources

He is off base, though, in suggesting that vouchers allowing parents to choose their child's school would affect the curriculum choices in public schools.

At least the oaf has doubts and acts upon them, but he's off base at first: "The whole thing is a smokescreen," he insists.

John Rosenthal (On Language, Aug. 18) is correct in attributing the defense of "It is I" to prescriptive linguists, but he's off base with "Whom shall I say is calling?" That unfortunate locution has been put into the mouths of scores of butlers by writers who are neither prescriptivist nor descriptivist; they are simply wrong.

Here too, however, he was off base.

In my opinion, she was off base".

"So any inference that any of the money that the government is giving has anything to do with this business is off base," he said.

Limbaugh may be wrong about whether a communist can grasp the meaning of the phrase, but he's right that Putin is off base.

Timothy H. Buchman is off base when he states that the city's "branch libraries have languished" (Letter, Feb. 27, in response to "What It Takes," Feb. 13).

I think that Mr Rajan is off base when he suggests trying to make the regulatory process more uniform in order to close gaps.

I think the Japanese theory is off base.

But your gloomy assessment of charter performance is off base.