Sentence examples for positively misleading from inspiring English sources

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Unless one understands what this means its utility is non-existent, or it is positively misleading.

That is not only statistically insignificant, in Ryder Cup matchplay terms it can be positively misleading.

In some respects, the lessons were superfluous, and in others they were positively misleading.

Mr. Walsh concludes that those books are "textually and therefore materially unreliable to the point of being at times positively misleading in their presentation of the facts".

Nevertheless, his understanding of the purpose, meaning, intentions, and context of The Federalist and its relationship to the US Constitution is so inaccurate, and so skewed to reflect presentist right-wing sentiments, as to be positively misleading.

On the basis of 40 years of indicators work, we argue that frontiers and characteristics of STI indicators that were important last century may no longer be so relevant today and indeed may even be positively misleading.

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As Lord Kerr famously said in the supreme court, "evidence which has been insulated from challenge may positively mislead".

That assumption was awry, he went on, because the evidence would not have been challenged, and "evidence which has been insulated from challenge may positively mislead".

A consequence of parallelism and convergence, long-branch effects arise in phylogenetic inference when there is unequal molecular divergence among lineages, and they can positively mislead inference based on parsimony especially, but also inference based on maximum likelihood and Bayesian approaches.

THE study did not delve into why companies distort charts, but some financial industry experts say the practice is more about spinning information positively than intentionally misleading readers.

And misleading.

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