Sentence examples for perhaps mistaken from inspiring English sources

Mr. Harling said the speech allowed Mr. Assad to try to persuade the undecided that he is still a plausible choice, and reflected a belief in the president's circle — perhaps mistaken — that "people will ultimately come back to them, because they offer more of the prospect of a state".

Hugh Kerr (Labour MEP 1994-99), Edinburgh Mistaken decisions to go to war are more terrible than other mistakes (Editorial, 5 July); except perhaps mistaken decisions not to go to war: Rwanda, 1 million dead; Syria unknown, but awful and not getting any better.

For example it classes those properties that satisfy (ii) but not (i) (such as the 'capacities' of Cartwright 1994) as a species of disposition, which is perhaps mistaken, or at least overly simplistic.

I was perhaps mistaken.

However, illustrating the overall relationship between piwi-like sequences not only supports existing classifications, but also helps explain why the link between the mid domain of piwi structures and Ago sequences can be missed (and perhaps mistaken for having an incorrect motif).

While that did not happen, the cranes promptly scattered, perhaps mistaking it for a predatory eagle.

He suggested that our rackety prize was some kind of undefined Gove-ian conspiracy and, perhaps mistaking our prize for actual legislation, that we were "language police".

"I guess it's just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for prophecy have been seeking its fulfilment ever since".

They were presumably laid so fans could experience stepping onto a real football field, but many guests walked gingerly around them, perhaps mistaking them for some new urban greening initiative.

Perhaps mistaking my silence for disapproval at the maid's young age, Mother said, "I wanted someone young, to get used to our ways, to be like a daughter".

For that, you'll need the little varmint to creep across your plate of coquille St.-Jacques, or perhaps mistake it for a peppercorn on your steak à la metamorphosis.