The committee concluded: "Whilst we acknowledge that there are mitigating circumstances, Ms Smith clearly breached the rules of the house by wrongly designating her main home from 2004 to 2009.
He has been ruled to have breached several rules: the fact of the payments to Mr Lundie, the excessive value of those payments (£200 to £300 above the monthly market rate, apparently), wrongly designating his constituency residence as his main home, and wrongly claiming for building work and telephone bills.
If a profile is wrongly designated as an aa homozygote, the database search will be unnecessarily restricted and may fail to match a perpetrator reference sample on the database.
What's most painful about these numbers is that each incident when a crime is not recorded, or is wrongly designated a no-crime, does not represent a single event, but a lasting legacy.
In 2000, the Department of Labor commissioned a study that estimated that nearly a third of all employers misclassified some employees as contractors; a 2005 study found that more than 10% of workers in the private sector had been wrongly designated as contractors.
In a bitter fight between two old-line New York charities, a state appeals court yesterday ruled that a foundation that administers charitable gifts from hundreds of trust funds wrongly redirected money designated for a society that aids the poor -- but the court also said the challenge came so late that the claims were barred.
In my field, orthopedic surgery, designating wear and tear of cartilage as "osteoarthritis" (the suffix, "-itis," points to inflammation that is not present) wrongly suggests that anti-inflammatory medications are necessarily better than gentler painkillers; calling shoulder pain "impingement syndrome" has prompted many surgeons to cut out normal but supposedly "impinging" bone.
Smith, who apologised to the Commons earlier this week after a probe concluded she had designated her main home wrongly, and her husband, Richard Timney, are said to have bought the house in Redditch for £81,000 in 1998, using parliamentary expenses to fund it.
But the same word used to designate the "image" we wrongly worship is also the word used to establish our likeness to God when we were made in his "image". This echo alone should serve as a warning against seeing the enthusiasm for images as evidence of man's frivolity.
A council official who relied on Google Streetview rather than visiting a street in Ulverston has apologised after "keep clear" signs were wrongly put along a length of kerbside designated for residents' parking.
Then on Thursday, the nation's highest court issued an order dissolving Parliament, on the grounds that political parties had wrongly been allowed to compete for the one-third of seats designated for individual candidates.
