CLEVELAND — Seeking to counter federal hate crime charges, defense lawyers for 16 Amish men and women on trial here said Tuesday that their clients had cut the beards and hair of perceived enemies out of compassion — trying, with admittedly misguided methods, to help them repent and see the true Amish way.
"The occupation forces bear full responsibility for this due to their misguided methods in treating the security situation," said the cleric, sitting just off the slain ayatollah's prayer room, which was draped with yards of black cloth.
Brent Staples' advocacy of "scientifically proven" methods of teaching reading, as opposed to whole-language methods, is misguided (Editorial Observer, Jan . 5.
And why should those attempting to view the world and themselves honestly, critically, with empathy and idealism however misguided their conclusions, impractical their methods, or unlikely their outcomes be subject to greater derision than the cynical profiteers, the polluters, and the narcissists?
Companies' interview methods can also be misguided.
To some investigators, however, trying to find the single "best" method for comparing treatments is as misguided as the equally conventional quest for the "best" treatment for all patients with a given condition.
He tells her that the whole premise of her project — sampling a different method of test prep each month — is misguided; successful preparation requires a sustained approach.
But there is no going back to assign ontological commitments to the original theory couched in ordinary language.[44] More recent critics of the method of paraphrase see the search for paraphrase as fundamentally misguided.
Application of methods for geochemical anomaly recognition based on classical statistics can, thus, be misguided and potentially result in spurious anomalies.
Naturalists might part company with adherents of other reductionist views over whether or not the armchair methods of philosophers, and related appeals to intuitions, thought experiments and the like, are misguided.
Knowing that deep breathing has been shown to be misguided during a panic attack, researchers at Stanford and Southern Methodist universities developed the CART (capnometry-assisted respiratory training) method, which utilizes shallow, consistent breathes.
