Sentence examples for mistaken effort from inspiring English sources
The policy of secrecy, he said, is a mistaken effort to preserve the dignity of the state.
Bill Leonard, dean of Wake Forest Divinity School, said Mr. Falwell's remarks were "a mistaken effort to sound prophetic".
The Democratic National Committee, apparently under pressure from the Clinton camp, has limited the number of debates to six — a mistaken effort to protect the front-runner from harm.
Some critics have long argued that the construction of seawalls was a mistaken, hubristic effort to control nature as well as the kind of wasteful public works project that successive Japanese governments used to reward politically connected companies in flush times and to try to kick-start a stagnant economy.
In any case Mr. Reynolds, who has often mistaken lack of effort for effortlessness, sits around looking bored, except when he is knocked unconscious.
Moscow's relations with the Vatican had been improving, but Archbishop Paolo Pezzi, whose diocese oversees Moscow and Kaliningrad, said that the region's legislators were "profoundly mistaken" in their effort to hand over the neo-Gothic Church of the Holy Family to the Russian Orthodox rather than the Roman Catholic Church.
And for the common good she is willing to have quoted by the Guardian interviewer several lines from a poem by herself that could easily be mistaken for a first effort by one of the young people she wishes to encourage," he said.
Many people think that the Branch Davidians were a dangerous religious cult, but Gladwell argues that this view is mistaken, and that negotiators' efforts failed because they didn't understand or take seriously the Branch Davidians' beliefs.
In fact, it is important, in my view, not to mistake this U.S. effort in Iraq for anything other than military interventionism wrapped in humanitarianism.
In reviewing its work The New York Times announced that Mould's effort was "generally mistaken for a miniature penitentiary," and The Real Estate Record and Guide called it "ridiculous".
