Sentence examples for incorrectly assuming from inspiring English sources

Critics who say that disparities and shortages persist fault the Pentagon for incorrectly assuming that American troops would return home quickly after the war.

Mr. Wood said the other half of the problem was the law's retail rate cap, which blocked utilities from passing on the cost of power to customers, incorrectly assuming wholesale prices would fall.

In the 1980s and 1990s, when African governments faced severe fiscal crises, the bank pushed for the public sector — often badly managed and inefficient — to pull back from agriculture, incorrectly assuming that market forces would jump-start agricultural growth.

"In our experience, we are more likely to see errors made in the direction of assuming competence on the part of people who may be fairly impaired than incorrectly assuming incompetence in people who are not impaired," Dr. Appelbaum said.

When Old Filth finally confesses all to a priest, incorrectly assuming he has suffered a fatal heart attack, the chief effect is to let readers know that his choice of a nickname may not have been the witty, self-deprecating japery others have assumed.

David Stebenne, Goldberg's biographer, said Goldberg admitted that he had not prepared the way he should have, incorrectly assuming that the justices who had served with him would see the error of sticking by past decisions — and not wait any longer for Congress.

Fans incorrectly assume that injured athletes are no big deal.

"I think many people incorrectly assume we make $600 off each EpiPen," she said.

So different fragments of the same message might be incorrectly assumed to represent different messages.

Many people incorrectly assume that all college athletes are fully covered by health insurance.

He incorrectly assumed that this would not result in huge costs.