Sentence examples for mistaken demand from inspiring English sources

The charge of tautology against the theory thus rests on the mistaken demand that an explanatory variable must always be defined in terms distinct from its causes and effects.

When shown to be mistaken, I demand a second opinion.

However unwise and mistaken the demand, it is but the assertion of a natural right, and such must be conceded".

He said the archdiocese had been been mistaken in demanding "secrecy as a part of legal settlements" because secrecy "places others at risk".

The agency, after realizing its mistake, demanded that the lawyers return the classified material, and subsequently sealed virtually all the court records relating to the case.

Asking the Libyans not to lay on a welcome for him was a prime example of a well-known diplomatic mistake: demanding that water should run uphill.

But the expansion was built on debt and mistaken assumptions that demand for natural gas would grow as fast as supply.

Whitehall's approach remains much as it was under Gordon Brown; a reliance on cheap credit and monetary stimulus, a misplaced obsession with demand and a mistaken belief that corporatism is free enterprise.

In the video, shot for the online magazine Bird in Flight, the men are sitting close to each other on a bench, with one holding a bunch of flowers, when some men approached and reportedly told the pair that they had apparently mistaken Ukraine for America and demanded to know if they were "patriots," Kis told the Guardian.

Guevara's writings reveal an introspective man quick to admit his mistakes and demand more of himself.

Singles' rights advocates face an uphill battle because their demands for equality are easily mistaken for anti-marriage assaults.