Sentence examples for misdirected attempt from inspiring English sources

The goalkeeper made a bad call trying to reach a high ball after a misdirected attempt by Mauricio Victorino to clear a free-kick and he was left stranded as Lee Chung-yong, the Bolton player, headed in.

"I still have your applications on file from the last six Saturdays you filled them out," the manager informed me, looking disdainfully at my best prairie skirt, Yo-Yo shoes and misdirected attempt at Charlene Tilton hair.

The immune system itself becomes a cancer, eating away at the body in misdirected attempts to defend it.

From a very young age, boys are socialized to consider imperfect bodies "bad," according to Hagman, through such external influences as advertising and schools' misdirected attempts to counteract the obesity epidemic.

When left-sided DLTs are misdirected into the RMB, attempts to reposition the left-sided DLTs into the LMB usually fail without any manipulations [ 4], thus necessitating FOB guidance.

Never once did it misdirect me or attempt to send me into the river or something else equally disagreeable.

Effort is never misdirected.

Experts say the attempt to point to small businesses is misdirected.

The subject's initial attempts to touch the target will be misdirected, and there is a discrepancy between its location as seen and as felt.

Similarly, some attempt to explain fascist demonologies as the expression of irrationally misdirected anger and frustration, whereas others emphasize the rational ways in which these demonologies were used to perpetuate professional or class advantages.

"It's an attempt to misdirect the Spanish population and make them forget what everyone really wants to talk about [the state of the economy]," he argues.