Sentence examples for mistaken action from inspiring English sources

You are a man who has enough courage to annul a wrong and mistaken action," he added, in idiosyncratic spelling and capitalization.

But megamergers are sexy and provide motion that can be mistaken for action.

He said another complainant had mistaken his action of hugging her.

A free society cannot tolerate words being mistaken for actions.

In the filing yesterday, Mr. Tanella's lawyer argued that the immunity would protect a federal agent even if the agent was mistaken about the action required.

"The Station Agent" is never going to be mistaken for an action movie, unless you count the delirious scene in which Joe guns his truck alongside a racing train, while Fin points a video camera at the engines and freight cars, to capture their blur for posterity.

In those who do not know what the good is, reason gives rise to mistaken impulses to action.

Jack and Gwen see this and mistake his actions for collaboration.

The caution inherent in this internal process is appropriate to guard against mistaken or imprudent actions when targeting individuals who have the power to wreak havoc on America while hiding among civilians in faraway places.

Examples of convulsive actions also suggest that the Millian account of Locke's theory of action is mistaken.

As the report states: "Taxpayers who honestly seek to comply with the law often make inadvertent errors, causing them either to overpay their tax or to become subject to IRS enforcement action for mistaken underpayment of tax.