Sentence examples for misleading past from inspiring English sources

A tactic called "incubation" has become a standard way for companies to create attractive funds with high, but misleading, past profits.

But since the disclosures last week showing that the agency does indeed routinely collect data on the phone calls of millions of Americans, Obama administration officials have struggled to explain what now appear to have been misleading past statements.

Another member of Congress is misleading constituents about past support for the Violence Against Women Act, a law whose protections Republicans allowed to briefly expire in 2013 for the first time since its passage two decades ago.

Ministers were forced to apologise to MPs for misleading them in the past.

Random House's parent company, Bertelsmann, has been accused in the past of misleading the public about its activities during the Nazi period.

"Lucent needs to tread carefully not to appear in a similar league with Oxford Health Plans and Tyco International," said John Gonsalves, vice president of Adventis, a communications consulting company based in Boston, in reference to two companies accused in the past of misleading investors about their financial situation.

One possibility is that environmentalists have been misled by their past success.

And it declared that a chart they produced in 1999 about past climate was "misleading".

"Given the NSA's past history of misleading the public, it's hard to take his word at value," Regenbogen said.

It is not my purpose to suggest that we have yet to discover a female Michelangelo, but it is misleading to look at the past through the eyes of men alone.

As a letter-writer to the Times quoted by McKay put it in 1934: "Why do our lean-limbed young men and shapely damsels make themselves so ugly in potato colour and khaki while merely taking a walk?" Still, the impression the book gives that the walkers' struggle essentially belongs to a somewhat quaint past is rather misleading.