Sentence examples for wrongly than from inspiring English sources

The premise underpinning its justice system is that it is far worse to convict wrongly than to fail to convict at all.

There is general agreement among the sages of the peoples of the past ages, that if we are granted power commensurate with our will, we are more likely to use it wrongly than to use it rightly, more likely to use it stupidly than to use it intelligently.

He was born in 1898, into a rough and ready but pious Ulster Protestant family in Belfast; his father was dense and eccentric — a man with "more power of confusing an issue or taking up a fact wrongly than any man I have ever met," his exasperated son wrote much later — and his mother, who died before Lewis turned ten, was warm and loving and simple.

It is more likely, however, that the newspaper has printed the result wrongly than that she should win the lottery.

Beliefs born of patterned thought take hold, and eventually leave a legacy in her 21st century progeny that states, "It is more prudent to believe wrongly than not to believe and be wrong".

They conclude wrongly that traditions other than Christianity have no good resources and insights for helping their practitioners understand and cope with the loss of a loved one and they appeal to fear of punishment as a basis for religious commitment.

They are more likely to be wrongly prosecuted than to see their exploiters behind bars.

Questions of jurisprudence aside, what does it say about our society that we become more enraged when we think someone has been wrongly acquitted than when he has been wrongly convicted?

The mpMRI-based approach resulted in a lower number of patients wrongly diagnosed than with TRUS-guided biopsy for all men, at all prevalence rates.

In his own genome-wide analysis [ 174], many times more genes support an actinobacterial ancestry for eukaryotes (which Martin wrongly rejects) than they do for an archaebacterial ancestry for eukaryotes (which he wrongly accepts, despite all the other evidence against it and for a sister relationship instead [ 1, 129, 175]).

Similar calculations could be made for the four subsequent closed primaries which wrongly awarded more than double the delegates than New York did.