Sentence examples for own wrong from inspiring English sources

Mr. Ashcroft doesn't even have the courage of his own wrong convictions.

How did the students envision themselves: as unapproachable figures or regular folks who could laugh at their own wrong notes?

from Florida named Jason Mendoza, and his own wrong soul mate, Tahani, a celebutante-philanthropist — slam doors and trade partners, all the while exploring questions of what goodness really means.

I did suspect I was doing something wrong – or, perhaps more accurately, intuited that, while I was completely right, others were judging me by their own, wrong criteria – when I kept getting the stinkeye on the bus whenever I told my son to be quiet because "nobody else needs to hear you".

Tantalising tentacle: a glance at the label's highlights NoMeansNo: Wrong (1989) The pun-loving Wright brothers left Alternative Tentacles a few years ago to set up their own Wrong label after recording a brace of incredibly taut and disciplined punk-jazz albums.

Make them realize that it's not cool to go around lying all willy nilly just to take the heat off of their own wrong doing.

And even then, if you proved that the idea that you were wrong is wrong, you'll have countless other people asking if you might have been wrong in different ways, or setting up their own experiments to prove your conclusions wrong, which will involve them having to prove their own wrongness wrong as well.

What began as an effort to find out the truth about terrorist threats led to the C.I.A. repeatedly lying to cover up its own wrongs.

Charles Francis Adams Jr., a captain in the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry and the son of Lincoln's minister to Britain, warned that "emancipation would force millions of irresponsible barbarians into society," where they would exact "just vengeance for their own wrongs".

The IPCC is the independent body specifically set up to ensure the police don't abuse their powers and cover-up their own wrong-doing.

Scalia's fury is a rear-guard action that proves its own wrong-headedness: Of course California counts.