Sentence examples for they misconstrued from inspiring English sources

Opponents seized on it, and even if they misconstrued it, she may have reduced further her seemingly slim chances of capturing the nomination.

They misconstrued it as apps stealing this information, not asking for it.

Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions," he once remarked mischievously.

Bernanke understood that he needed to talk turkey to the Street, lest they misconstrue his remarks and head the wrong way down a one-way alley.

The Internet is at full tilt with thousands of readers writing that they were shocked at her comments and others saying that they were misconstrued.

As Cliff recounts, the "landing party had assumed that Hindu temples were Christian churches, they had misconstrued the Brahmins' invocation of a local deity as veneration of the Virgin Mary and they had decided the Hindu figures on the temple walls were outlandish Christian saints".

A week later, Zoeller was on to the apology portion of the tour, telling CNN: "My comments were not intended to be racially derogatory, and I apologize for the fact that they were misconstrued in that fashion".

Well, if he's such a student of history, has he not understood that you know that's the one thing you don't do, is engage in a land war in Afghanistan?" Mr. Steele has not spoken publicly since he made the remarks, but in private conversations with Republican officials over the weekend, he sought to explain that they were "misconstrued," the officials said.

They'd misconstrued his words.

They had misconstrued his words.

He stands by his Facebook posts, but claims they were misconstrued: The "kill them all" post, for example, was unfairly divorced from its historical context, he said, arguing it was part of a broader argument about civilizational war.