Sentence examples for wrongly pursued from inspiring English sources

The phrase "wrongly pursued" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone is being chased or followed inappropriately or unjustly. Example: "The suspect felt that he was wrongly pursued by the authorities without sufficient evidence."

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The prosecutors have plainly been frustrated by articles and columns suggesting that Mr. Schwarz is an innocent man who has been wrongly pursued.

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Local manufacturers, though, say the first shots have been fired, and they question whether the g multinationals are wrongly pursuing a policy of appeasement.

When John reports Laura's disappearance to the Italian police he inadvertently becomes a suspect in the murder case they are investigating an innocent man being wrongly accused and pursued by the authorities is a common Hitchcock trait.

ITV is the second name in a long list of organisations and individuals pursued by Lord McAlpine for wrongly linking him to a paedophile ring.

In Toxteth in Liverpool, for example, unrest was triggered in 1981 after police pursued a man they wrongly suspected had stolen a motorbike, then arrested a nearby student for assault when he attempted to intervene.

Of the violent offences, including rape, that had been written off as "no crime" by the force, just under a fifth were wrongly classified and should have been pursued, inspectors found.HMIC examined 66 recorded crimes of rape, violence and robbery that South Yorkshire police had recorded as no-crime but found that 11 of these – equal to 17% – were incorrectly classified.

The maxim may be: "act in a way such that if peace is best pursued by letting people think (wrongly) that it is in fact justice that is being pursued, you should let people think so".

However, besides asking ourselves whether such self-frustratingness is what accounts for the possibly unjust nature of the maxim, we may provide a higher order formulation of the maxim: "Act in a way such that if one legitimate goal is best pursued by letting people think (wrongly) that it is in fact another legitimate goal that is being pursued, you should let people think so".

In opening remarks to the shareholders, Mr. Ospel acknowledged that "we judged a number of developments wrongly" but insisted that the bank had long pursued a cautious investment strategy.

A touchstone of the American filmic tradition, The Fugitive tells the story of Dr. Richard Kimble Harrison Fordd), a man wrongly accused of his wife's murder and pursued by a US marshal played by Tommy Lee Jones.

"Accountability" was a concept that the last administration rightly pursued for the perpetrators of genocide but wrongly evaded itself.

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