Sentence examples for it is wrong to interpret from inspiring English sources

A Foreign Office spokesman later played down Johnson's remarks, saying: "It is wrong to interpret the foreign secretary's comments as a suggestion that this is the first step towards military action in Syria.

When judges or academics say that it is wrong to interpret a law in such a way that everyone is a felon, the Justice Department has usually replied by saying, roughly, that federal prosecutors don't bother with minor cases — they only go after the really bad guys.

It follows from these claims that it is wrong to interpret events such as eclipses or natural disasters as omens sent by heaven.

Conversely, if it is indeed right to doubt the scientific plausibility of suggested mechanisms, their operation in human exposures, and their lack of operation in animal studies, then it is wrong to interpret the patterns among human studies as indicative of causality.

It's wrong to interpret this as secularisation.

The Met later attempted to clarify the commissioner's position, arguing it was wrong to interpret his comments as a proposal that fraud victims should not be compensated.

Yet it would be wrong to interpret this deal as signalling new thinking on industrial policy.

He said it would be wrong to interpret Olmert's response to Blair's telephone call as a rebuff.

"It would be wrong to interpret any inspection report as a final grade for a restaurant," he said.

"It would be wrong to interpret Australia as racist or intolerant," said Gerard Henderson, who heads a policy group called the Sydney Institute.

But it would be wrong to interpret these words in the manner of those critics who see Rousseau as a prophet of modern totalitarianism.