Sentence examples for misguided status from inspiring English sources

It is not survival instinct but misguided status instinct that prompts drivers to buy these vulgar, environmentally offensive vehicles to tackle the terrain of Main Street.

It is a misguided effort to enhance the status of women grounded in speculation about what a woman hidden in a burqa must feel.

Preferences for the status quo and misguided beliefs about sunk costs stand in the way of rational decision-making.

Studies that test the association between an individual's concurrency and infection status are theoretically misguided and empirically irrelevant.

Although patients with stroke mimics infrequently receive thrombolytics and their treatment generally does not lead to harmful complications [18], CT perfusion may spare patients with status epilepticus from the misguided treatment of intravenous thrombolysis.

This position is misguided.

In one refrain of "Life Would Be Wonderful," he sang about the Residents themselves: their lack of a major label, their status as "aging hippies with misguided fantasies," and their fear of impending "war to save our S.U.V's".

In spite of being told that the colour-blind approach would simply maintain the status quo, that well meaning but misguided thinking prevailed.

He acknowledges, almost parenthetically, that federal law trumps state initiatives on matters of immigration status, and that these state laws "are misguided at best, mean-spirited and racially tainted at worst".

If this is right, any search for the real ontological status of fictional objects appears to be misguided.

Were Britain's leaders misguided, blinded by the desire to preserve its great-power status and to create a welfare state when they should have been rebuilding industry and improving infrastructure, as others in Europe were doing?