Sentence examples for understood incorrectly from inspiring English sources

It was understood incorrectly by the GCSB that a further step in the immigration process would have to be taken before Dotcom and associates had protection against interception of communications," Neazor wrote.

Some have understood this (incorrectly in our view) as asserting that there are no mechanisms that work only once, or that a mechanism must work significantly more than once in order to count as a mechanism.

This is because these terms are both poorly understood and incorrectly used.

Statistics is increasingly used in all fields of medicine but is often poorly understood and incorrectly applied.

mis·un·der·stand Pronunciation: \mi-ˌsən-dər-ˈstand\ Date: 13th century 1 : to fail to understand 2 : to interpret incorrectly.

Did I understand this incorrectly or when did this all change?

For Yorck, as for Dilthey, human life is incorrectly understood if it is subsumed under the generic catch-all category of "existence".

His likely response would be to say: "We meant to ban punishments that are cruel and unusual, not what I can now see we, along with everyone else, incorrectly understood that ban to entail.

One may argue that it was intended this way in the Rig Veda and that at some unspecifiable time in history, and because of some unspecifiable instigator, it was subsequently, and incorrectly, understood to be inherited.

Although sunlight is your best resource when the image comes up incorrectly understood, you may need to light your area with alternate lighting to help you out.

And I'll rip them to shreds if they understand my withdrawal incorrectly and abuse it.