Sentence examples for misguided assumption from inspiring English sources

Chilcot says the intelligence community worked from the start on the misguided assumption that Saddam had WMDs, saying it was "ingrained" in their thinking.

There is a misguided assumption that baby-sitting is sustenance enough for the aging, said Moina Shaiq, founder of the Muslim Support Network, which brings seniors together.

Thus in 1980 he attacked Iran under the misguided assumption that the new Islamic Republic was so unpopular that it would collapse after one good shove.

This, the ethos of the market economies since the Industrial Revolution, is grounded in a mythical and misguided assumption — that our resources are infinite.

On the plazas outside, where scalpers still held to the misguided assumption they could get $500 CAN for tickets, a series of great roars came from within the stadium as American goals rocketed in the net: boom.

Chilcot says the intelligence community worked from the start on the misguided assumption that Saddam had WMDs and made no attempt to consider the possibility that he had got rid of them, which he had.

But much of the coverage makes several misguided assumptions.

Alas, the quip helped spark lazy and misguided assumptions that he was an evanescent pop-puppet; the kind of cannon-fodder regularly fuelling shows such as The X Factor and Pop Idol.

Years of mistakes like this, misguided assumptions and even outright accusations — DaJuan said one Amateur Athletic Union coach told him he was lying about the identity of his father — make the connection a bit unfortunate.

The ratio was always based on faulty science and misguided assumptions, and it still disproportionately punishes blacks, who make up more than 80 percent of those prosecuted for federal crack offenses.

It claims that the article contains "many misguided assumptions about FGM and the progress that has been made in recent years" and that instead of a "new approach" current strategies are effective and need to be further supported.