Sentence examples for misguided intervention from inspiring English sources

But it has been a case of misguided intervention.

As in the original, we see the scruffily contented Ekdal family reduced to ruin through the misguided intervention of Gregers Werle.

Steve's friends — "friends" may not be the appropriate word — put him in an ice-filled bathtub, a misguided intervention they had seen on TV.

Our misguided intervention in Vietnam's civil war had catastrophic consequences for the Vietnamese: millions died, hundreds of thousands of soldiers are still missing in action, and tens of thousands of children suffer from horrendous birth defects that can be credibly linked to American use of defoliants like Agent Orange.

This summer, the al-Wefaq opposition party was banned; soon afterward Mr. Rajab was arrested, charged with "spreading false news" because of his reporting about torture in a government prison, and "insulting a neighboring country" because of tweets about Saudi Arabia's misguided intervention in Yemen.

Its 2003 setting and highly critical references to the war in Iraq seem to be staking the novel's claim to a grand theme: that simplistic worldviews and impoverished imaginations lead to misguided interventions.

Policy based on common assumptions and popular sentiments can become a recipe for mistaken prescriptions and misguided interventions.

once-promising bid for the GOP presidential nomination, you'll be happy to know that even if Paul's hopes have faded, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has swallowed up many of his arguments against government surveillance and misguided interventions in the Middle East.

Many informants talked about "de-worming campaigns" in areas without clean drinking water sources; groups that provided free eye glasses without an eye exam; or groups that indiscriminately handed out vitamins as examples of particularly misguided interventions which reflect the lack of coordination and consultation with the local healthcare community.

It is not hard to portray this as another tragic example of misguided, Western intervention.

Mr Lavrov cited Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya as places where misguided outside intervention had left people worse not better off.