Sentence examples for misguided application from inspiring English sources

But to say that I avoided long-term employment merely out of some misguided application of literature to life... would be preposterous.

As the reviewers recognize, there is a tradition that emphasizes only stationary (i.e., flat) bounds, but this turns out to have been a misguided application of the sequential probability ratio test to situations where it is not normative;in particular situations like ours when there are a variety of stimulus strengths that are randomly interleaved.

This interpretation is infused in misguided applications of Darwinian thought such as eugenics, and it is reflected in more legitimate societal applications such as business performance analysis where "optimization" is seen as a laudable goal.

Mr. Olson, do I understand that your argument on the equal protection branch would render academic what was your main argument that's troublesome; that is, that we must say the Florida Supreme Court was so misguided in its application of its own law, that we reject that, and we, the Supreme Court of the United States, decide what the Florida law is?

Since Title IX was enacted in 1972, it has been the subject of debate -- much of it misguided -- about its application to college athletics.

In his order approving bail, Judge Sullivan said he nevertheless "believes that the government's decision to endorse (and enhance) defendant's bail proposal — and that endorsement is critical to the current application — is misguided".

The issue is the difficulty of identifying whether an intervention is misguided tampering or insightful application of tacit knowledge.

Yet our current plans to shift to green energy — centered on so-called carbon offsets and cap-and-trade systems — are in some applications sorely misguided.

That must be superior to the application of some misguided heuristics.

While he said the act was well intentioned, he contended that its application had become misguided, where a stable family environment was too often eclipsed by a desire to keep children linked to their tribe.

In one of the most bizarre — and in my view misguided — recent instances of proximity/location technology applications, mobile maker Nokia has made an app called Job Lens that mashes up augmented reality with job hunting.