Sentence examples for popular misunderstanding from inspiring English sources

This is increasingly done, due to the popular misunderstanding that development per se will lead to a better climate.

Unfortunately, the sustainability movement's politics, not to mention its marketing, have led to a popular misunderstanding: that a perfect, stasis-under-glass equilibrium is achievable.

But this is largely due to popular misunderstanding of the most important economic issues, aided and abetted by flawed media coverage.

But one popular misunderstanding about the Saudis -- and about OPEC in general -- is that high prices, no matter how high, are to their benefit.

Mr. Graham's proposal revived a popular misunderstanding: In the often heated debate over birthright citizenship, pundits refer to the problem of "anchor babies," and talk show callers express frustration that pregnant women could cross the border from Mexico illegally, then rely on their American citizen newborns to put them immediately on a path to citizenship.

This is a popular misunderstanding, as better-informed conservatives recognize.

Through detailed reporting from closed nuclear cities in the southern Urals to smuggler trails in Kurdistan the author corrects many popular misunderstandings about the nuclear business.

Contrary to popular misunderstandings, Democratic Socialism neither seeks to repudiate the profit motive nor to abolish markets.

So the money changers were actually a legitimate service of the Temple, helping people fulfill their religious duties — not whatever debased slur has entered into popular, ignorant misunderstanding".

But the bill will face a reservoir of popular fear, resentment and misunderstanding.

The mission also received some criticism in the domestic press: Mark Lawson in The Independent called prime minister Major's efforts with the mission a "failure... to silence the hostile snipers" based on a misunderstanding of popular indecision about Bosnia and on a failure to manage domestic press skepticism.