Sentence examples for proved off-base from inspiring English sources

Look for reengineered e-commerce strategies from Internet companies that were there for e-tail's first round, like AOL Time Warner's AOL and Yahoo!, but whose initial efforts proved off-base.

Predictions that Mr. Tavares would be fired during an emergency cabinet meeting on Thursday night proved off base, and he has denounced the press for what he calls a campaign of sensationalism and a lack of understanding of the budget process.

It was the hearing's most intriguing moment and one that raised questions about who coordinated the administration's talking points and why they ultimately proved so off-base.

The assumptions have proved off the mark.

His concerns about the religious ramifications of our experiment also proved to be way off-base.

If the estimates about Iraq's capabilities ultimately prove far off base, it will be harder for the administration to bring international pressure to bear against North Korea, Iran, Syria and other rogue states based on intelligence assessments that they are building unconventional weapons or aiding terrorists.

A year is an extremely long time in politics, and there is every likelihood that electoral predictions made now will prove to have been dramatically off-base come April or May next year.

Andrew Miller of The Pitch stated "[the concert] at Sandstone proved that many [of Spears's] criticisms are off-base observations from people who have never actually attended one of these stars' shows.

Are we completely off-base?

Your sources are off-base.

Allianz calls this estimate "grossly off-base".