Sentence examples for wrong tack from inspiring English sources

By trying to answer anti-Jewish vitriol with logic, Mr. Friedman is taking the wrong tack.

"Drinking tea in mosques" became a term of derision used by those convinced this was exactly the wrong tack.

"The whole drift of our work now is that this is the wrong tack to take," he said.

"If we're talking about the revitalization of certain areas of the town of Southampton, I think that they're taking the wrong tack," Mrs. Prete said.

But the Pataki team has taken the wrong tack in trying to silence these legitimate questions about how the administration does business.

One result, Mr. Fulton said, is that a city that expands a road to eliminate an area of stop-and-go traffic -- where idling cars produce extra pollution -- may be taking the wrong tack.

Accordingly then, right or wrong, with intention this paper tacks towards the goals of elevating rates of DV prosecution, raising rates of DV conviction, and also increasing the content of DV criminal sentences.

The same treatment is applied to Radiohead's "Street Spirit," but this may be the album's only misstep, it seeming like a tacked-on or wrong conclusion to the collection of adventures we just accompanied Gabriel on.

Cameron insisted it was "completely wrong" to suggest that he changes tack on Europe to appease his party.

Cameron said it was wrong to suggest he had changed tack on Europe to appease his party.

When Cameron and Osborne act partly for crude strategic reasons the sequence tends to go badly wrong and they are forced to change tack.