Sentence examples for misguided drive from inspiring English sources

A quest for the exotic, a need to one up my last best location; perhaps even some misguided drive to prove or lose myself--kept me hopping buses, trains and highways; periodically throwing away junk that wouldn't fit in one pack.

He hit one of the most spectacularly misguided drives of the tournament on the 13th hole, slicing it right, which was the way the wind was already blowing.

Rusbridger wrote that the destruction of the hard drives was a futile and misguided effort in the digital age, since the data were stored elsewhere as well and would remain available to the Guardian.

The goal of every program is not to push the read heads of the hard drive to the theoretical limit in some misguided effort at testing the platters.

She rightly exposed the pursuit of misguided, domestically driven policies as self-defeating in the mid to long term.

"It's a common but misguided tactic to drive homeless people out of downtown areas".

Much thanks for this case of collective amnesia can be given to former DCCC chair Rahm Emanuel, who recruited Blue Dogs and built the Blue Dog Coalition in a misguided attempt to drive the Democratic party more towards "the middle" (obviously following the lead of his former boss, the original "Blue Dog Bill Clintonn).

The pragmatic commitment to growth that one sees in Asia and other emerging markets today stands in contrast to the west's misguided policies, which, driven by a combination of ideology and vested interests, almost seem to reflect a commitment not to grow.

It's the misguided lawmakers trying to drive him out.

But I know now what drives these misguided people to do the things they do.

I have no doubt that many of these killings are driven by misguided fear ― based on stereotypes of poor black men, or violent black men.