Sentence examples for mistaken understanding from inspiring English sources

"In this case of a journalist being detained and the local police using criminal-case methods to enter into a dispute over reputation between a business and the media, the mistaken understanding and application of the law is hard to understand and leaves one speechless," the newspaper said in an editorial.

The error of individualism leads to a mistaken understanding of the role of government.

The constant to-ing and fro-ing of their (often mistaken) understanding of one another is held steadily in focus.

Yet even such an ingenious stroke of scholarship cannot completely account for Holmes's mistaken understanding of a goose's gullet.

Interestingly, it is perfectly possible to have a mistaken understanding of a word and yet use it correctly for quite a while.

But fixed as the piece is to an outmoded, even mistaken, understanding of the politics of the diamond trade, For the Love of God doesn't reconsider the diamond.

The scientific community tests and retests its explanations, challenging all assumptions, eventually eliminating biases and mistaken understandings.

This means that there is often confusion or mistaken understandings, and it is likely that these emotions would color a child's outlook, not a worldly or mature understanding of mom and dad's divorce or house foreclosure, etc. Keep preaching for the pulpit.

Explain how the on-again, off-again relationship has impacted you but make it clear that this is merely a background story to your ending it; you don't want to leave any room for mistaken understandings that there is a chance left open to try again.

Originalists have been able to achieve agreement on these broad underlying principles, but they have often viewed as unduly narrow and mistaken the understanding held by the original originalists-the "framers" of originalism, if you will-as to how those principles must be put into action.

Beneath the debate over the name of the Washington NFL football team is an underlying truth: the vast majority of Americans have a limited -- and often mistaken -- understanding of Native American history.