Sentence examples for wrong describing from inspiring English sources

The inspectors wrongly claimed the school had failed to meet key targets, he says, and even got its name wrong, describing it as Broughton Hall Technology College.

"At Least We Can Apologize" is divided into three sections, whose titles — "Finding Wrong," "Creating Wrong," and "Cultivating Wrong" — describe a surefire, if unmistakably cynical, business strategy.

A discussion on a bulletin board at Salon.com this year titled "When Customer Profiling Goes Wrong" described people's befuddlement upon receiving off-the-wall recommendations from Amazon.

In her 2010 book "Being Wrong," my colleague Kathryn Schulz writes that "error literally doesn't exist in the first person present tense: the sentence 'I am wrong' describes a logical impossibility.

He discusses Einstein's explanation of the formulas that characterize fast-moving bodies as they approach light speed, noting that Einstein (versus Lorentz, who discovered the same formulas but explained them wrong) "described perceptual change that observers would experience," whereas Lorentz described "physical changes that bodies approaching the speed of light would undergo".

This is unfortunate, since many of the wrongs described by the Amazon workers are precisely those that robust collective bargaining can help to mitigate.

A significantly greater proportion of the respondents who in addition felt wronged described themselves as impeded from returning to work [51.3% (47.1-55.5)].

Republican candidate Dr. Ben Carson came close to admitting that he was wrong when describing his faulty memory of Muslims celebrating in New Jersey after 9/11.

There is nothing wrong with describing a person as black or white or Jewish, just like there's nothing wrong with describing someone as having brown hair or a red shirt.

However, Gregory and other contemporary authors were not wholly wrong in describing Clovis, a warrior king, as a religious figure.

Assery says, "I see nothing wrong with describing our program and its positive characteristics".