Sentence examples for targeted the wrong from inspiring English sources

Simply put, they targeted the wrong things.

They targeted the wrong side of the prisoner's chest, apparently intentionally, and he bled to death.

Police say seven Lehigh University football players have been charged in an off-campus break-in meant as revenge, but they targeted the wrong northeastern Pennsylvania home.

From there, officials say, his reasons varied: He targeted the wrong house on a street in Queens where he said he once purchased crack cocaine.

They would rather make troops available as props in gung-ho videos than available to explain how the commanders let Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda leaders escape or targeted the wrong villages.

But in the second strike a drone targeted the wrong house, hitting the residence of a pro-government tribal leader six miles outside the town of Wana, in South Waziristan.

They are targeting the wrong people".

To put it another way, we target the wrong variable.

If an operator targets the wrong house, innocents will die.

And of course, mistakes have been made, particularly in targeting the wrong vehicles in the south.

He said the policy of stricter rules on student visas was targeting the wrong area of the immigration problem.