Sentence examples for in error thinking from inspiring English sources

When asked about the growing circumstantial evidence that the separatists shot down the jet in error, thinking it to be a Ukrainian air force plane, Borodai said: "It's a lie and I hope it will be proved as a lie by experts, including international experts who have already arrived on our territory".

Pistorius said he shot her in error, thinking that someone had broken into his home.

Ruling on the McLoughlin case, the Court of Appeal said the sentencing judge had been "in error" in thinking he did not have the power to make a whole-life order in the wake of the Strasbourg court's ruling.

"I think they are committing a fundamental error in thinking that the policies we are following are weakening France, when in fact these policies are strengthening it," he told Europe 1.

Even if you can't eradicate the distortions ingrained into the way your mind works, you can build tests and disciplines into your decision-making process that can uncover errors in thinking before they become errors in judgment.

Then, mulling things over, he comes to realize his error in thinking that he has seen through the veil to the reality beneath.

He contended that Republicans out to roll back the welfare state made a fundamental error in thinking that politicians and their actions drive history.

In 1996, as Mr. Galbraith approached his 90th year, he wrote "The Good Society". He contended that Republicans out to roll back the welfare state made a fundamental error in thinking that politicians and their actions drive history.

No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function" (Asch, 1952, p. 61).

As a partial answer, we suggest a common error in thinking about brains the failure to account for relations between spatial and temporal scales that might be generally expected in complex systems.

One place to start is by acknowledging two errors in thinking that have blighted U.S. policy in the past decade: the conservative delusion that the United States could, more or less single-handedly, use its military power to reinvent the Middle East, and the liberal illusion that we could simply walk away from the mess that Bush, Cheney & Co. created.