Sentence examples for wrong award from inspiring English sources

The 'hopelessly wrong' award for state voting goes to Susquehanna Polling of Pennsylvania, who got their polls woefully skewed (again presumably by accident) to the benefit of Mr. Romney, while the broad consensus of the out-of-state polls simultaneously got the result almost spot on.

Among the pollsters, my 'getting it hopelessly wrong' award goes jointly to Gallup and Rasmussen Reports, for a faintly ludicrous set of polls, skewed (presumably by accident) in favour of the Republicans, in the days and weeks running up to election day.

That was, of course, before they all grabbed the wrong awards which was a great, goofy moment to behold.

Do you think FIFA was right or wrong to award the tournament to Qatar?

But it would be wrong to award too much of the credit to any individual player.

The League One football club claimed the London Legacy Development Corporation was wrong to award sole tenancy of the stadium to Premier League side West Ham, and bosses wanted the High Court to intervene.

The court of appeal is also deciding whether the high court was wrong to award damages of £1.2m to eight victims of phone hacking, including Gascoigne and Frost, after a civil trial earlier this year.

The court is deciding whether the high court was wrong to award damages of £1.2m to eight victims of phone hacking, including the actor Sadie Frost, after a civil trial earlier this year.

The former Australia wing David Campese led a wave of support for Joubert yesterday, calling for "someone to be shot" at World Rugby for its statement that the South African referee had been wrong to award the Wallabies' winning penalty at the end of Sunday's quarter-final against Scotland.

In "Right Player Wins Wrong N.L. Award" (Nov. 17), Murray Chass addresses an issue that has occurred to everyone who has followed baseball since the inception of the Most Valuable Player award: the inherently ambiguous name of the award implies that it rewards something different than best performance.

The old Soviet Union wasn't entirely wrong to award mothers of large families with special heroic status, and the French – who have recently had an upturn in fertility – are not wrong to maintain children's allowances at a generous level, and to insist that familles nombreuses obtain special budgetary deals in cultural or recreational pursuits.