Sentence examples for its misplaced from inspiring English sources

Republican lawmakers asserted that the science underpinning the regulatory effort was a hoax, questioned the agency's interpretation of a Supreme Court decision giving it power to regulate carbon dioxide, and accused the Obama administration of sacrificing American jobs in its misplaced zeal to address climate change.

One increasingly wonders, in this age of stars being able to tweet above the noise of unmistakable booing, how many other creative and deluded ways there can possibly be for the celebrity world to express its disdain for public opinion, or its misplaced belief that widespread hate and ridicule is in some way preferable to or more justifiable than indifference or positivity.

In watching the movie and being drawn into Eastwood's view of a society rendered dysfunctional by its misplaced sympathies, I found myself seeing something else at the same time: a view of a society and the very idea of what society means.

For his part, Popper became increasingly critical of the main tenets of logical positivism, especially of what he considered to be its misplaced focus on the theory of meaning in philosophy and upon verification in scientific methodology, and revelled in the title 'the official opposition' which was bestowed upon him by Neurath.

Neurath rejected Popper's approach for its stealth empiricism and its pseudorationalism: its misplaced emphasis on and faith in the normative uniqueness, precision and conclusiveness of a logical method at the expense of its own limitations and pragmatic character (Zolo 1989, Cat 1995, Hacohen 2000).

Although three-page Senate Resolution 84 does not even mention the use of reserve funds, that is where The Times focuses its misplaced objection.

What Rolling Stone did not say outright last December was how profoundly it had misplaced its trust in itself.

THE FOREMOST horror show was Union Pacific's maladroit 1996 acquisition of Southern Pacific, with its congestion, misplaced cargo and red ink.

It is like molten glass: you can stretch it, shape it, chop it, misspell, mispronounce or misinflect it, cruelly misplace its elements and somehow you still end with English.

It was the fans' chance to celebrate their role in restoring order to a league that had misplaced its priorities among its bank statements.

That runaway court's order to start counting was promptly, and rightly, obeyed -- until a majority of the highest court, recognizing its deference had been misplaced and its authority was being challenged, stayed the counting fingers.