Sentence examples for wrong messenger from inspiring English sources

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My gut says: Sorry, you're just the wrong messenger.

Even if he was the wrong messenger, Mr Summers definitely had the right message.

For example: Brown describes Johnnie Cochran's tactics during the trial as the "right message with the wrong messenger".

Blair may encounter a challenge from rival centrist pro-European groupings, concerned that the former prime minister is the wrong messenger to combat populist anti-elitism.

It was like watching the bearded lady trying to encourage people to pay to see PT Barnum – wrong messenger, wrong message.

In interviews, many voters said that Mr. Paladino's promises of fiscal conservatism, including lowering taxes and slashing government spending, resonated strongly, but that he had turned out to be the wrong messenger.

In fact, from the Assembly floor Monday, and in conversations with Assembly Democrats over the last two weeks, two of the most common views were these: right message, wrong messenger; and right message, wrong timing.

A society where you allow this idea of a dynamic economy to pervade every aspect of life is very frightening to people, and certainly you're not going to be able to build a political coalition around it". Salam, the son of Bangladeshi immigrants, is critical of increased immigration and believes that Trump, though the wrong messenger, has forced an important issue into the open.

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Police officers are the "wrong messengers" to teach about what is fundamentally a health issue, she said.

As a former avid city bicyclist, I lost my taste for bicycling the moment I was hit by a wrong-way messenger and thrown into Sixth Avenue traffic.

If the message is so right, how come Labour's poll lead is shrivelling – unless there's something wrong with the messenger?

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