As he tells it, part of the problem has been misguided orders from presidents, like Eisenhower's demand in 1953 that the shah of Iran be restored to his throne.
In 1887, Phan concluded that his tactics were misguided, ordering his subordinates to cease open combat and resort to guerrilla tactics.
It's one thing when your doctor misdiagnoses you and prescribes a medication that aggravates your condition, but it's quite another when your government forces you to comply with that doctor's misguided orders.
The most popular dish, and inspiration for countless misguided Seamless orders, remains the sensational black-cod miso.
The first, and by far more dangerous, is already law: the president's misguided and much criticized order authorizing secret trials before an American military commission.
We believe the executive order is misguided and a fundamental step backwards.
Another classic conundrum is the sometimes misguided conviction that in order to progress in academe, you must spend your postdoc in a big, well-funded research group, says Carla (not her real name), a biologist who completed a five-year postdoc at a prestigious private university.
If we don't come to our senses and get our deeply misguided priorities back in order, America engaging in nation building wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could easily join that ignominious list.
First, the central bank ordered a maximum interest rate of 7% on peso loans, in a misguided attempt to decree confidence.
Misguided American attempts to impose order produced the "Black Hawk Down" fiasco in 1993 and an ultimately useless Ehtiopian invasion in 2006.
