Sentence examples for misguided premise from inspiring English sources

What we want is a "Snooze-a-Thon" for the 18-and-older crowd, one based not on the misguided premise that seeing sleep induces sleep but on real-world experience.

Much of the emerging debate on what comes next in a post-FCA payday world seems to be based on what our charity believes is the misguided premise that people who can't access payday loans simply need a different type of credit.

But a grounded journalistic comprehension of a foreign country is rare in major American fiction, which tends to proceed on the not obviously misguided premise that, since American reality is preoccupyingly interesting, the novel should function as a kind of brilliant cultural selfie.

The economists argue that current government policy – which is for Britain to take 20,000 Syrians by 2020, plus an uncertain number of unaccompanied child refugees – is "based on the misguided premise that refugees will be deterred from travelling to the EU" by a refusal to take in those who have arrived "and by refusing to offer safe or legal routes by which to come".

Fund investors dutifully piled in on the misguided premise that these funds would yield positive returns even when the market fell, says Louis Stanasolovich, chief executive of Legend Financial Advisors, a fee-only wealth management firm.

But few economists agree with this misguided premise.

But the biggest problem is now America, which is no longer leading the drive for freer trade.Trade negotiations operate on the misguided mercantilist premise that opening domestic markets is a concession to be exchanged for access to foreign ones.

Two, he climbed out on the political limb during the campaign in boosting the Afghan enterprise so as to protect himself against Republican charges of being a spineless dove on national security, however misguided the premise.

Many contended that Governor Cuomo's basic premise is misguided.

And more importantly, his entire premise is misguided: The U.S. could learn a thing or two from France about work-life balance.

Larry Summers, then the president of Harvard and now an adviser to President Obama, dismissed the paper's premise as "largely misguided" and warned it could harm the world by encouraging unwise additional regulation.