Sentence examples for mistaken reference from inspiring English sources

This article was amended on 2 June 2016 to remove a mistaken reference to Henning Mankell's death.

Moloney and McIntyre are both adamant that the tabloid was not given access to Price's recording, and point to the mistaken reference to "Boston University" as proof.

The headline and standfirst on this story were amended on 7 May 2013 to correct a mistaken reference to a Philip Larkin poem.

Why do so many of the media outlets, the Guardian included, persist in the mistaken reference to the opinion polls having a margin of error, typically plus or minus 3%?

Additional research by Shanna Hanbury This article was altered on 20 July 2015 to change a mistaken reference to the first Olympics in Latin America to the first in South America, and to correct the Paralympian's first name.

In one instance an officer appeared to reveal that the special forces unit had been operating in Iraq in 2001, two years before the invasion, though that was later described by military sources as a mistaken reference to Afghanistan.

This article was amended on 14 June 2014, to remove mistaken references to overseas aid.

Other recent acts of violence against Sikhs — the defacing in February of a temple in Michigan, the beating of a cabdriver in California in late 2010 — involved mistaken references to Al Qaeda or militant Islam.

A simple plea for teachers to employ clearer language is weak advice it will be welcome, but what will be more effective is recognizing and calling out mistaken references to intentionality in students' answers and even in textbook explanations.

In several novels I found mistaken references to aspects of Judaism and Jewish life that surprised me because they were pretty obvious.

An eavesdropper might have mistaken their references to Eton, the Observer, and a nasty flu bug for genteel chit-chat.