Sentence examples for under a wrong from inspiring English sources

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A hazy timeline can be constructed from the records, some of them so poorly kept that they list Commander Goetzee under a wrong name and even the wrong race.

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That tendency is especially acute in Iraq after decades under Saddam Hussein, when a wrong reply could mean death.

TROOPS MEET HEAVY RESISTANCE IN NASIRIYA (DETAILED MAP ABOVE) -- Members of a maintenance company come under fire after taking a wrong turn toward the city.

This basic rule of justice essentially acknowledges that government committing a wrong under its official capacity is far worse than a private citizen doing so, undermining belief in and support for that government.

Passing Blackwater convoys sometimes intimidates even Westerners, who fear coming under attack if they make a wrong move.

One of them gave a wrong name under the influence, and now Greece is being sued by a woman that was never even arrested for slander.

One of them gave a wrong name under the influence, and now Greece is being sued by a woman who was never even arrested for slander.

David Troughton's Bolingbroke is also brilliantly effective: an overweening politician who cloaks driving ambition under a sense of wrong - "I am a subject and I challenge law" - and who swiftly dispatches Richard's followers with a bullet through the brain.

Finally, we employ the concept of acceptable regret to identify the circumstances under which a potentially wrong strategy is tolerable to a decision-maker.

Pastoralists self-medicate camels and other livestock (45.8%), which can lead to between over-dosing, under-dosing or wrong drug use.

(The plot went awry, he said, when agents paid by the agency put a bomb under the wrong car, killing several Libyan bystanders).

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