Sentence examples for misapply from inspiring English sources

Organisations are concerned about security and they misapply various things.

The first two lines quote back, as in a dream, the justifications of reason, or religion, or whatever force wants to transmute accident into law; the following five borrow the tone and deliberately misapply it to a description of these children's bodies first sinking, then rising, in the "manifold dark arms" of the pond.

"What I did not realize would happen is that the industry would take that data and try to misapply it to fire retardants in general," he says.

A report from the charity Christian Aid, which is concerned with the effect on developing countries, estimated that governments lose $160 billion a year when companies working across borders misapply the rules.

This may have been the reason why I didn't cross the line and try for a political career: at that time, SNP party politics seemed like (and I misapply the Freud quote about nationalism here, but it works very well at this level) the "narcissism of minor differences".

It adds: "Multinationals have been able to use or misapply those rules to separate income from the economic activities that produce that income and to shift it to low tax environments.

"The few areas where there were potentially harmful exposures were limited in space and time, mostly in the area very close to the wellhead during the spring and summer of 2010," says BP.Trustees compiling the NRDA retort that BP "misinterprets and misapplies data".

His new book (reviewed here) focuses on the 1930s lessons that were misapplied in the recent crisis.

Despite his courtly manner in private, which so charmed Ms Albright, the mantle of statesman seems misapplied for the old curmudgeon.

But if Mr Cameron returns to Downing Street, it could seem tragically misapplied.

Significantly, the founders of re-engineering accept many of these charges, though they blame cack-handed consultants who, they say, misunderstood and misapplied their ideas.