Sentence examples for mistaken statements from inspiring English sources

Last week, the two former executives, Colin Myler, who was editor of The News of the World until it closed this month, and Tom Crone, the former legal manager for News International, accused him of making "mistaken" statements to Parliament in his testimony on Tuesday.

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The most serious error, which slipped into the IPCC's fourth assessment in 2007 and prompted a global outcry, was the mistaken statement that the Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035.

They more frequently mistook false statements for true ones.

No one could mistake the statement of her own vulnerability.

However, several participants saw a risk that any explicit statement of economic conditions specified in the Committee's forward guidance could be mistaken for a statement of its longer-run objectives.

Bennett, in the immediate continuation of the above quote, recruits objects for just such a purpose: "That rests on the mistaken assumption that causal statements must report relations between shovers and forcers.

Her resistance to cosmetic surgery could easily be mistaken for a political statement, but the reason she always gives is that she doesn't think facelifts look good.

Despite mounting pressure, it took Johnson six days to semi-clarify his statement was mistaken, though he is yet to apologise.

The article concluded with what became one of Steinem's most famous quotes: "If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?" Although clearly meant in the context of transsexuality, the quote is frequently mistaken as a general statement about feminism.

Former NATO General Secretary Jaap de Hoop Scheffer advised Wilders not to make a speech, arguing that the international public does not know who is in the Dutch cabinet and who is in parliament and thus Wilders' speech could be mistaken as an official statement of the Dutch government.