Sentence examples for was correct not from inspiring English sources

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Who would now say that it was correct not to intervene in Rwanda?

He was correct; not a single ball was hit Posada's way.

He was lbw to Bhuvneshwar Kumar and it transpired that his partner, Alastair Cook, was correct not to advise a review.

Villas-Boas accepted the referee, Kevin Friend, was correct not to award a penalty when Jan Vertonghen fell under a Seamus Coleman challenge in the first half and again when the roles were reversed in the second half.

The company lost its bid for Hotjobs.com, a competitor, to Yahoo last year, but management was correct not to overpay, Mr. McHugh said, adding, "Earnings growth won't slow down because they didn't make the acquisition".

Leicester's manager, Nigel Pearson, was correct not to celebrate promotion prematurely before the MK Dons result was known but admitted his side look set to return to the Championship.

I think I was correct not to bother with listening to the people who were writing books about how to write books because if you want to write you just write.

"The decision … was correct, not only because it followed existing precedent, but because the entire project of seeking to confer legal rights on animals is misguided from the ground up," writes Richard Epstein, a legal scholar at New York University (NYU) in New York City, in an email to ScienceInsider.

"I wanted to make sure, unlike most politicians, that what I said was correct, not make a quick statement.

"I wanted to make sure, unlike most politicians, that what I said was correct, not make a quick statement," he said in attempting to explain why he took two days to denounce neo-Nazis.

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