Sentence examples for misguided set from inspiring English sources

"The city's obstinacy, its unflagging defense of an overrun position reflects a misguided set of priorities and loyalties.

He's a victim of a strange and misguided set of rules that have somehow conspired to rule that marriage, raising children and being moulded by these experiences is incompatible with being the leader of a Christian church.

The revelation outraged Care Not Killing spokesman Alistair Thompson, who said: "This is another deeply depressing and misguided set of comments from two much-loved celebrities, who should know better".

This last point is one echoed by Dr Urs Heierli, (pdf) who suggests that the lack of widespread political support to date comes down to a misguided set of priorities: "Political forces and their international institutions do not, it seems, consider hunger as intolerable and as a major human problem.

It's misguided to set up an invidious comparison between Hillary and Palin, as some have done, suggesting that Palin worked her way up into power and status, while Hillary did it "the easy way" through marriage and connections.

The service was not failing, and many of the problems it had were the consequence of sustained government mismanagement and misguided target-setting, rather than internal incompetence.

The protagonist is separated in youth from his needy, misguided parents and set on a lavish but fatal course.

He worked in most genres except the western: with Raymond Chandler he co-scripted the classic noir thriller Double Indemnity, but he failed badly when directing Bing Crosby in The Emperor Waltz, a misguided period musical set in his native Austria.

What we have seen in the recent past is that fear about crime -- as well as crime rates actually rising from the mid-1960s through about 1990 -- led to our country to embark on a misguided, incredibly harmful set of policies that resulted in mass incarceration, particularly affecting African-American men.

Foreign direct investment is strong, and Brazil now holds more dollars than it owes, a happy development that has led to misguided suggestions of setting up a sovereign wealth fund.Even so, Brazil is clearly far from immune to what happens in the rest of the world.

The federal government must quickly move to enact legislation, and stem the trend of individual states setting misguided immigration policies that should be under the purview of the federal government.