Sentence examples for on the wrong question from inspiring English sources

Ms. Rampell's summary: "Americans are focusing on the wrong question.

Heritage is not just offering the wrong answer; it's obsessing on the wrong question.

"Biotech: Golden Egg or Wrong Basket?" [L.I.@Work, Feb. 23] about the effort to promote a biotechnology industry on Long Island, focuses on the wrong question.

When we focus on the wrong question ("should I have gotten in on the Facebook I.P.O.?"), we're more likely to make poor decisions based on short-term thinking and emotion.

12.46pm: I have received a comment from Ron Bailey, one of the report's authors, addressing remarks below the line about the report's claims of neutrality on nuclear energy: Your correspondents seem to be focusing on the wrong question.

The problem with this debating point is that it puts the emphasis on the wrong question — whether Israel is a good or bad country, and thereby implies that if it were clearly one or the other, the boycott would be clearly bad or good.

A possible consequence of neglecting this primary stage is to spend resources on producing the right answers to the wrong questions.

I had been so focused on the wrong questions throughout the morning.

If the regime is truly tottering, we may have been focused on the wrong questions about North Korea.

But I wonder if our obsession with current events and specific investments focuses on the wrong questions.

If you're focusing on the wrong questions, you're not really providing the leadership you should.