Sentence examples for were mistaken to from inspiring English sources

He said union members were mistaken to think that successful reorganizations were commonplace.

But Sarkozy also said the Palestinians were mistaken to seek full recognition as a state at the security council.

In 1992, Roger Wilkins wrote that blacks were mistaken to believe that the power to segregate was the greatest power used against them.

(We had gone there for the weekend assuming it was just like a smaller New York City; we were mistaken, to put it mildly).

Mr. Diamond said that Republicans were mistaken to treat his expertise in labor economics as irrelevant to decisions about monetary policy.

Some of those who have occupied the E.U.'s highest offices now say they were mistaken to think that if they knocked down economic barriers, a feeling of political unity underneath the blue-and-gold E.U. flag would follow.

It is mistaken to view it as a cost.

But Democrats would be mistaken to dismiss the Wisconsin result.

You are mistaken to characterise it ideologically as our enemy.

The researchers emphasized that these interventions should not be mistaken to be silver bullets.

"One would be mistaken to attribute too much significance to the Henry plan, however.