Sentence examples for measure a misguided from inspiring English sources

De Mello calls the measure "a misguided attempt at solving a much broader problem than where data is warehoused".

This will likely be the legacy of Measure B: a misguided case for condoms that deserves only condemnation.

In this instance, the California Teachers Union, the state's richest and most powerful lobby, decided to oppose the measure in a misguided attempt to protect teacher due process rights and as a result four union-fearing legislators simply didn't vote.

Nixon described the bill as "a misguided measure that punishes children".

In the political realm, the concept of unintended consequences usually refers to some variant of dreary socioeconomic fallout from a misguided policy measure.

Compared with the Holocaust, the rape of Nanking, the siege of Leningrad or the indiscriminate bombings of large cities by both sides, it can seem merely a misguided security measure.

But power companies and many economists argue that price controls are a misguided and shortsighted measure that will only increase the risk of blackouts in both the short run and the long.

Broadway's "Fair Lady" of December 1993, suffered an unfair measure of misguided conceits.

I think it's a misguided fantasy because whenever you start measuring [in that way]…you have no real quality of measurement…you have no idea really what you are measuring other than that these links are being sent around.

"It measures inequality," Mr Rector insists, adding that it will help advance a misguided anti-poverty agenda.For all the time spent developing the SPM, it is still a work in progress.

This ban is rooted in a misguided moralism that fails to understand both patterns of addiction and measures needed to protect the public health.