Sentence examples for point in the wrong direction from inspiring English sources

This goal will not be achieved automatically; in many places the trends today point in the wrong direction.

And market indicators for the next domino in line for a bailout, Italy, point in the wrong direction.

If the numbers point in the wrong direction, find tame academics and businessfolk to produce more convenient ones, and call their guesses "expert opinion".

*However*, the post provides no argument that teacher evaluations are likely to be so biased so as to be useless, or worse, that they may point in the wrong direction; i.e., a teacher with an evalution of 5 is better than a teacher with an evaluation of 6.

Many indicators, however, point in the wrong direction.

"We have been in a major struggle to compare favorably with last year's summer season week after week and with yet another 'down' weekend on the books, the summer deficit just added another percentage point in the wrong direction," said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at ComScore, who pointed out that this weekend's crop could not compete with 2016′s "Jason Bourne" and "Bad Moms".

The device pointing in the wrong direction.

All this points in the wrong direction.

The national pavilions are signposts pointed in the wrong direction.

"The Justice Department's guns seem pointed in the wrong direction," Mr. Aiken said.

Like the guns of Singapore, their weapons were pointing in the wrong direction.