Sentence examples for wrong cause from inspiring English sources

This seems obvious, but it's surprising how often people assign the wrong cause to an outcome.

Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal needs more troops, but the Obama administration is fighting a wrong cause in a hostile country.

They attach themselves to the wrong cause, make half-hearted decisions that lead to disastrous results, are magnetically drawn to their own destruction.

As it is, I think Haynes favors the wrong cause; we get long, supersensitive scenes between Cathy and Raymond, during which the husband's dilemma almost falls from view.

But Mr. Rester says he is also motivated by guilt, by a sense that he gave himself to the wrong cause.

Vast and unchartable forces: we don't like the idea of these very much, and so we dedicate ourselves to locating a cause — even a wrong cause will do — a need that becomes most pressing when children are involved.

Admittedly, if used for the wrong causes or taken the wrong way, it can be disastrous.

Finally, those who argue for looking at underlying causes usually have the wrong causes in mind.

Sometimes educated guesses about missing bits are wrong, causing the reader to arrive at different meanings from what was intended.

The worrying, and not knowing for months what was wrong, caused him to lose about 20 pounds.

Another was fatally injured on set and three others perished when a stunt went wrong, causing a speedboat to explode.