Sentence examples for misguided interpretations from inspiring English sources

One of the tragedies of the Egyptian Arab Spring is that so many mistakes have been based on misguided interpretations of what democracy should be.

He said that secularism and "misguided" interpretations of the reforms of the liberalizing Second Vatican Council contributed to the context of the abuse.

"Faced with the increasing secularism of today's world," he told Archbishop Williams, "the church must ensure that the deposit of faith is proclaimed in its integrity and preserved from erroneous and misguided interpretations".

Plutarch's polemics were, then, motivated by his desire to advocate Platonism against what he regarded as misguided interpretations and criticisms on the part of Epicureans and Stoics.

They are, rather, products of troubled environments and have subscribed to distorted and misguided interpretations of Islam that have no basis in traditional Islamic doctrine.

But to ban all Muslim immigration because of terrorism that emerges from misguided interpretations of Islam is like banning all Christian immigration because of attacks on abortion clinics or violent racist ideology emerging from incorrect interpretations of Christianity.

No one was denying the obvious evidence suggesting Jabar had been influenced by people pushing a misguided interpretation of Islam.

He said Mr. Sperling was trying to pave the way for tax increases by advancing "a misguided interpretation of the mandate given to this newly created committee".

The second, also at the heart of Lord Black's appeal (which the Court agreed to hear in May), is that his conviction rested on a misguided interpretation of the legal concept of "honest services".

From earliest childhood, Marie-Thérèse's behavior mirrored her mother's, whether she was donning a miniature version of the grand panier (the giant hoop skirt that, the author notes, "weighed as much as she did") or frolicking in the bucolic gardens of the Petit Trianon in accordance with Marie Antoinette's elegant, if misguided, interpretation of Rousseau.

WASHINGTON — In an unusual break with the White House, the Democratic leaders of Congress told the Supreme Court on Monday that President Obama was pursuing a misguided interpretation of federal Medicaid law that made it more difficult for low-income people to obtain health care.