Sentence examples for widely wrong from inspiring English sources

Therefore, the obtained E-factor is not widely wrong, being in the expected range.

Consumer and civil rights lawyers counter that without class-action treatment, grave but widely dispersed wrongs would never be addressed.

But many views widely held are wrong.

That view is widely held but wrong.

Another relativist response would be to say that the practices in question, though widely accepted, were wrong according to the fundamental standards of the societies (for example, there were arguments against slavery presented in the United States prior to the Civil War).

It remains the case that assassination widely regarded as wrong as a tactic in wars between states - partly because it makes cease-fires very difficult to maintain - but the real point is the necessity of first establishing the appropriateness of applying the military logic.

This view, alhough widely held, is completely wrong.

The opinion-poll method of distinguishing right from wrong is widely accepted among politicians.

She says this very firmly, as if countering a wrong but widely held assumption about 55-year-olds in general.

But executives at the magazines, while refusing to discuss specific photo fees, insist that the widely reported prices are wrong or misleading and that the true costs to their companies are much less.

Armed with examples from pop culture and from the literary canon, Pinker tries to shoot down some basic principles of English grammar (such as the distinction between "who" and "whom"), some looser stylistic preferences (such as the recommendation against splitting infinitives), and some wholly permissible things widely rumored to be wrong (such as beginning sentences with "but" or "and").