Wrong Sentence Examples
Sometimes I make a mistake and do the wrong thing.
I can neither punish him if he does wrong nor reward him if he does right.
Right or wrong, the decision had been made.
What's wrong with that?
But right or wrong, she isn't his daughter.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand's driver, Leopold Loyka, made a wrong turn.
Maybe something was wrong all along.
I'd use the wrong towel or leave a dish out, and then you'd be threatening to kill me again.
So the histories say, and it is all quite wrong, as anyone who cares to look into the matter can easily convince himself.
He felt that everything was now at an end, all was in confusion and crumbling to pieces, that nobody was right or wrong, the future held nothing, and there was no escape from this position.
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I was wrong and I admit it.
There was right and wrong, good and evil, and every human but the woman before him had fallen for some temptation of the dark side.
What's wrong with it?
I may be dead wrong, but I for one say, go for it.
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I pretend like I know what's right and wrong, but I don't.
An inner voice tells us we are in the wrong if we are idle.
Molly was impressed, Howie was confused and Julie petrified she'd use the wrong utensils.
Does thee suppose that it is very wrong for Benjamin to do such a thing?
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Martha exclaimed when I told her Julie had entered the million dollar hunt for Howie and her letter might have fallen into the wrong hands.
And Pierre decided that the steward's proposals which had so pleased him were wrong and that he must go to Petersburg and settle his wife's affairs and must rebuild in Moscow.
The horse first, regardless of whether it was right or wrong to show fear, snorted, reared almost throwing the major, and galloped aside.
Some people get to the top of the ladder, only to find that it's leaning against the wrong wall?
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He wasn't completely wrong.
I should have thought about it before, but it's never too late to stop doing something you know is wrong.
I can sense it and I'm never wrong.
The episode proved how easy it was to say the wrong thing at the wrong time.
Has she ever been wrong?
What's wrong with me?
Bianca, Sofi—" "Wait, what's wrong?" he asked.
No one shall be allowed to think it was anything wrong; and some day she will write a great, beautiful story or poem that will make many people happy.
Dulce watches you and tries to find things you do wrong.
You didn't say a word to your father, but you snarled at me as though I did something wrong.
While she was outside having a pity party, he was trying to figure out what he'd done wrong.
Any time a wild animal isn't afraid of you, there is probably something wrong.
Could she have been wrong about it all?
I can understand you not wanting to invest the money for a car, but what's wrong with accepting a ride now and then?
There was a position open at a private home, but the salary had to be wrong.
Act like nothing is wrong.
Bordeaux said he couldn't get you to come back with him, but I guess he was wrong.
He was still wrong.
Apparently she was wrong.
Who are we to suggest that it's wrong?
She was wrong, all right - and she had no idea how wrong she was.
There's nothing wrong with having a different opinion.
Obviously I was wrong.
I'm a mess wondering what's wrong with me.
Then he started feeling guilty, as if he was doing something wrong.
No, this was pillow talk with Quinn but Howie knows something is wrong.
I didn't want to get it wrong.
Then he asked, "Are you ever wrong?"
There's nothing wrong with that girl!
Ethel Reagan found none that fit her pattern being proved wrong.
Perhaps it's time to send him down the wrong trail.
She kept looking toward Martha until Martha asked if something was wrong.
Martha could tell by the look on my face that something was wrong.
The time frame on this is all wrong.
Is there something wrong?
It was difficult to remember step by step but I didn't want to get it wrong.
After doubling back and being rewarded with a branch slap on my cheek I realized I wasn't wrong after all; the Pace Arrow was gone!
Don't get me wrong; I'm not condoning what we did but there were others who were much worse; sicko guys who really hurt their victims; sometimes killed them.
If I thought sermonizing would wear out Willard for my questions, I was dead wrong.
I found the key, just where you said but when I went in, I knew something was wrong.
I'd been so wrong!
There wasn't something wrong with him; he was wrong!
Somehow, it seemed wrong not to warn him.
I've got an army of bored assassins on the verge of killing off the wrong souls.
It was all wrong, and all she felt was anger.
And one would be wrong.
Whatever they told you, it's wrong.
Surely Dr. Howe is wrong when he says, "A teacher cannot be a child."
The police blamed street violence though the neighborhood was wrong and girl had no known gang involvement.
After several wrong turns I pulled into the parking lot of the Pacific Crest Inn.
He sensed something wrong but kept it from the petite woman beside him, who had enough of her own issues to deal with.
You ever meet someone and you knew there was something just wrong about them?
You didn't say anything wrong.
I mean, it's one thing to hurt yourself but to hurt someone else is just wrong!
Perhaps you have the wrong number?
Oh, God, what's wrong now?
She sipped her cocoa, cheered by the thought of soon knowing what was wrong with her.
She's started having symptoms that the doctors can't figure out what's wrong.
The words were the first sign of something very, very wrong.
Jake, something is really wrong with me.
Her last hope for understanding what was wrong with her was someone she innately knew she didn't want to meet.
By his tone, something was more wrong than the horrible costume.
What was wrong with her?
You know what's wrong with me.
Katie was wrong, though.
Did the man stab the wrong person?
It's not so bad to admit you were wrong, is it?
Would the deity shed light on what Gabriel was doing wrong?
I'm doing something wrong, aren't I?
You can bet the numbers are wrong.
Something was very wrong.
Unless things go wrong, Sofi said.
Darian lingered, unable to figure out exactly what was wrong.
I wanted Sirian to be wrong, but the attack today…I can't take that chance, Taran.
It had to be wrong.
Something was really wrong with all these people.
There's something wrong with you!
The moment they walked in, though, he sensed where his plan was going to go wrong.
There is something so wrong with you!
The Gods now knew Xander's intention of claiming her; what they couldn't know was that he was also prepared to walk away, if she made the wrong decision.
If she made the wrong choice, there would be nothing standing between him and the will of those who wanted to cause irreparable harm to the human world.
You're right and wrong.
In the United Kingdom the employment of brewery yeasts selected from a single cell has not come into general use; it may probably be accounted for in a great measure by conservatism and the wrong application of Hansen's theories.
The mother dragon probably knows the road to the earth's surface, and if she went the other way then we have come the wrong way, said the Wizard, thoughtfully.
They might balk at getting on an airline flight flown by a computer and prefer having a pilot on board to take over if he "feels in his gut" that something is wrong (even if that feeling is the airport burrito he had for lunch).
If I am ultimately proven wrong and the world rejects GM foods, we will still end hunger.
And when they run over a man that is walking in his sleep, a supernumerary sleeper in the wrong position, and wake him up, they suddenly stop the cars, and make a hue and cry about it, as if this were an exception.
I know that out of a million cases only one goes wrong, but it is her fancy and mine.
The Moscovites felt that something was wrong and that to discuss the bad news was difficult, and so it was best to be silent.
I'm only tormented by the wrong I have done him.
He said a few words to Prince Andrew and Chernyshev about the present war, with the air of a man who knows beforehand that all will go wrong, and who is not displeased that it should be so.
Don't get me wrong, Ben.
God, what's wrong with me?
But after a night of boozing, he'd punch out a nun in a wheelchair for looking at him the wrong way.
It was the wrong thing to say— or do—to Cynthia Dean.
When Dean returned to Bird Song, it was mid-morning, but if he expected a quiet empty building with the Dawkinses at the courthouse and the rest of the clientele enjoying the splendors of Ouray, he was wrong.
Her dreams, however mad, were never wrong.
Why couldn't he be wrong – just once?
Helen did slap very wrong girl.
Though he heard and saw nothing around him he found his way by instinct and did not go wrong in the side streets that led to the Povarskoy.
Not because she did anything wrong, though.
If I thought Howie might have difficulty napping, I was dead wrong.
Maybe we're aging this skeleton in the wrong direction.
His age was wrong but that was when they suspected Martha's bones dated back to the 1960s.
We were sure we had identified him but now we believe we were wrong.
When the child he told about the bones didn't come forward and report what he saw, Billy still felt wrong about the skeleton remaining undiscovered.
I think Wynn was insurance, in case something went wrong.
But something was wrong.
She wasn't certain what was wrong with her, but she didn't want to lie to Andre.
What if her assumption about Darkyn was wrong?
There was nothing wrong with Katie's figure except that she was a little over weight.
He couldn't possibly know or understand, but he seemed to sense something was wrong between them.
Something was wrong here.
Deidre prayed she was wrong as she approached.
His head was titled to the side, as if he was trying to determine what was wrong with her.
I will find a way to stop it, now that Wynn told me what's wrong.
He wasn't expecting humor at such a time, not when everything was wrong.
Or aware that what he did was mostly wrong.
She wished she had a moment to talk to Gabriel, the deity charged with protecting the dead, to make sure she wasn't doing something wrong.
What did I do wrong?
What's wrong with you?
Katie's mouth dropped open, and she began to realize something was very, very wrong.
She rubbed her head, wondering if the kid lived somewhere else in the building while unable to shake the sense that something was really, really wrong.
Cute, but you have the wrong species.
Her thoughts went to Rhyn then Hannah then the past few weeks as she sought to figure out where she'd gone wrong.
The emperor concluded that this could not be D'Erlon, because he had arrived too soon and was marching in an evidently wrong direction.
He claims for himself and his companions that they have lived a quiet and moral life, paying their dues and doing no wrong to their neighbours.
The main mistake is in giving the result as true to a small fraction of a square inch; but, if this degree of accuracy had been possible, it would have been wrong to give 7r a value which is in error by more than 1 in 2000.
The rearguard itself, at Hamatan, was almost entirely sacrificed, owing to the wrong direction taken in retreating by its left flankguard.
The Liao-Yang central mass was still held in hand, for the landing of the 4th Army - really only a division at present - at Takushan and the wrong placing of another Japanese division supposed to be with Kuroki (really intended for Nogi) had aroused Kuropatkin's fears for the holding capacity of Keller's detachment.
With a battle-front exceeding two days' marches the wrong distribution of reserves by both sides was a grave misfortune.
During the Revolution the tomb, and as it was supposed the coffin, were transferred with much pomp to the town museum; but it was discovered that the wrong coffin had been taken, and it was afterwards restored to its old position.
It is wrong, therefore, to impute to Kant, as is often done, the view that human reason is, on ultimate subjects, at war with itself, in the sense of being impelled by equally strong arguments towards alternatives contradictory of each other.
A workman, for instance, cannot produce a stress on one member by making some other member of a wrong length.
To this it added the sovereignty over demons, from a wrong interpretation of Eccles.
The queen sadly needed such of Wel a counsellor, for Prince Albert's position was one full of difficulty, and party malignity was continually putting wrong constructions upon the advice which he gave, and imputing to him advice which he did not give.
He is throughout more concerned for the wrong done to the faith at Ephesus than to himself, saying that if he held the views attributed to him by Cyril he would be the first to condemn himself without mercy.
The PseudoIsidorian idea being that all lay control over things ecclesiastical is wrong, all transferences by laymen of ecclesiastical offices or benefices, even though no money changed hands in the process, were now classed as simony (Humbert, Adversus Simoniacos, 1057-1058).
In the post-Vedic period ` right ' or ` wrong ' simply means the exact performance or the neglect, whether intentional or unintentional - of all the details of a prescribed ritual, the centre of which was the sacrifice.
But this statement is wrong, for at least five phrases or clauses in the Greek Legend are derived from the sections in question.
This fact was to him the basis of the conventional distinction of right and wrong, and in this sense he held that regard should be paid to law and custom.
Any documentary analysis of the Pentateuch may be right or wrong; but archaeology contributes nothing either one way or another as to the answer.
He was probably wrong, but there are some indications of relationship to justify the same view.
The dating implied by the latter notation is wrong, as I certainly belongs to the 12th, not to the 10th century, and 118 is probably later than 209.
From the time of Amos downwards the prophets spoke mainly at great historical crises, when events were moving fast and a few years were often sufficient to show that they were right and their opponents wrong in their reading of the signs of the times.
But it is based on an entirely wrong conception of the two offices.
Several revisions of the text exist, the later of which present such striking agreement with the later Wycliffite version that we shall not be far wrong if we assume that they were made use of to a considerable extent by the revisers of this version.
If similarly we leave, as historical, the plain of Troy, and the name Agamemnon, we shall perhaps not be far wrong.
And looking at those drawings I dreamed I felt that I was doing wrong, but could not tear myself away from them.
From the pretense of illness, from his daughter's distress, and by the embarrassed faces of Sonya and Marya Dmitrievna, the count saw clearly that something had gone wrong during his absence, but it was so terrible for him to think that anything disgraceful had happened to his beloved daughter, and he so prized his own cheerful tranquillity, that he avoided inquiries and tried to assure himself that nothing particularly had happened; and he was only dissatisfied that her indisposition delayed their return to the country.
Entering big rapids with your raft in the wrong position or missing an important mid-rapid move will often yield a calamitous outcome.
Dusty wondered what the hell was wrong with everyone around him and rubbed the back of his neck.
He rubbed his neck, unable to shake the feeling that something was wrong.
Rather, that something else was wrong.
I put my hand on them and I wait for their body to tell me what's wrong.
He said nothing to Talon, gave no trace he knew something was wrong.
Shivering, she couldn't help thinking something was very wrong.
Unless there was something wrong with it.
Maybe her fear of her father was wrong.
She was even more afraid of what he'd say, if he thought something was wrong with her like everyone else did.
Rourk did nothing wrong.
I need you to bring in some sort of paperwork from your doctor stating what's wrong.
They don't know what's wrong.
Of course they know what's wrong.
I can't make reasonable accommodations for you if I don't know what's wrong.
I just came back from a battery of tests that said nothing's wrong with me.
What do you mean there's nothing wrong?
They don't know what's wrong, and I'm not making it up!
Tell me where I am, why I'm here, and what's wrong with me.
What's wrong with him?
You all kidnapped me, drugged me, dragged me to Arizona—if I'm really in Arizona—and you won't tell me why or what's wrong with me!
It was still sooooo wrong!
What in God's name was wrong with her?
What I did was wrong, she whispered.
Miles away, Sofia couldn't shake the feeling that something was very wrong with Damian.
He'd always found something wrong, something evil or bad, no matter how small the inclination.
There's nothing wrong with it.
With Claire's death, he'd avenged his brother and righted the wrong made thousands of years ago.
What is so wrong in that? he countered.
Is there something wrong with me?
I knew something was wrong.
Nervous about proposing a deal, she also feared doing it wrong.
Don't get me wrong.
She could almost guess what was wrong but remained quiet.
A flicker of alarm went across her features, warning Deidre something was wrong.
Was she pushing the good-kid, bad-kid behavior, the line between right and wrong, a bit too far?
Fred could tell by the look on her face that something was wrong.
She looked up at her husband as he began to dress "It's as if she's done something wrong and wants to talk about it but doesn't know how."
But in the dark, just feeling around for 'em—the stones I'd left—I was scared we might mess up and make a wrong turn.
While Dean was fully exonerated from any wrongdoing in the unfortunate affair, either Fitzgerald failed to agree with the determination or simply despised being judged wrong.
Unfortunately, Cynthia Dean had chosen the wrong audience.
God, was she preaching to the wrong congregation!
I get the impression that's chasing down the wrong trail.
We couldn't have taken a wrong turn!
The words weren't out of his mouth before he realized how wrong they were.
Maybe I've got it all wrong, and he wasn't listening at all—just staring at my boobs, and pretending to listen—but to me, it was what I was looking for.
The funny thing is, they're creeping up to the wrong food bowl.
I can't fix whatever is wrong down there, Gabriel said in frustration.
You did nothing wrong, Gabriel.
Wynn was wrong about her being broken.
She knew it was wrong.
He should've let you remember every wrong you committed so you could relive them every second of every day.
Being wrong won't stop her from taking Destiny if she's determined, though.
And yet, in her heart she was sure it was wrong.
I convinced myself that you and I had married the wrong people.
Josh had called him a walk-away-Joe, but he was wrong.
He tells me maybe you would not approve, but I see he is wrong.
The doctor said it was unlikely because of the tests, but doctors had been wrong about tests on him before.
Nothing was wrong with his ability to do that.
Later, as she looked down at his sleeping form, she was silently cursing the doctor because his diagnosis was correct, but for the wrong partner.
She landed on her knees, horrified yet knowing something was very wrong.
Nothing had blown up or gone wrong since he'd returned from Hell.
As much as he's done wrong in his life, he's not a liar.
We're in northern Europe, so you can't go wrong with sweaters.
I righted a wrong, which required another wrong of sorts.
She paused a short distance from him, sensing something wrong.
He pissed off the wrong people.
Something was really wrong if Gabriel.s thousands-year-old habit changed suddenly.
Rhyn looked around, agitated again by the sense that something else was wrong.
Something was really wrong, and he couldn.t help but think it was more than him this time.
You chose the wrong side, Kris.
She doubted he saw anything wrong with the treatment he was accustomed to.
He didn.t want her storming out as usual when he said something wrong.
Do you ever find it difficult to follow the Code when it seems so wrong to do so?
Everything that.s gone wrong has been because of you! he returned.
There was too much wrong with the woman's words, but she dumped her confusion and wounded feelings to ask, "Where has he gone?"
For over a week, he'd hoped his instincts to be wrong.
Talal's assessment of there being something wrong returned to her.
What have I said wrong this time?
I did it wrong!
She didn't know if the choice she made was the right one, but she knew staying alone in the row house had been the wrong one.
Tears rose, and she wiped them away, scared something would go wrong at the last minute.
Then he added, "If it is in code, we're the wrong crowd for trying to break it."
Oh, I knew he just thought that way because I was his kid, but I figured he was a pretty smart guy himself so he couldn't be all wrong.
Most women were putty in the old man's hands, but Claire Quincy had pushed all the wrong buttons and short-circuited his good nature.
Don't get me wrong, I know she's hurting, but my main concern is my boy.
But Dean could see in spite of Fred's humor, something was wrong.
That, and given the fact she was in the wrong line when they were passing out brains makes me think we're missing something.
We don't want to give Bird Song the wrong reputation and have Sheriff Jake Weller down here busting the place.
I'd know I was doing wrong.
You know you're doing wrong, but you sort of admit to your own imperfections.
I'd know damn well it was wrong.
I don't know what's right and wrong anymore.
You haven't done anything wrong.
I know I was doing wrong, but I was so mad, I didn't give a shit.
It's wrong, for both of us.
Well, at least her secret is still intact, even if it's now being preserved by Claire for all the wrong reasons.
Better to have the pen missing than to have the wrong color ink someone might notice.
That's just it, we're handling them, and it feels wrong to me now.
They might get the wrong idea, or worse yet, come back.
You're wrong about that.
Well, you think wrong.
I think she's wrong; you deceived one another, and you are both going to have to forgive to have a future.
You think everything wrong with us is your fault, and that is simply not true.
What is wrong with you?
I am not willing to risk the consequences if you're wrong.
There's nothing wrong with wanting to be cherished and protected.
What's wrong with being different?
Then you presumed wrong.
There's nothing wrong with naming your animals.
Let me know if anything goes wrong.
He had no idea what he was doing wrong.
Aren't you headed in the wrong direction?
What had she said wrong?
There's nothing wrong with a man and woman making love - as long as it's sanctioned by marriage.
If he was the wrong man, why did it feel so right?
Did I do something wrong?
Lana paused in her pacing, wondering if she'd done something wrong.
The look on Elise's face when she realized that Lana had known something was wrong at the Peak.
I knew something was wrong there.
I thought something was wrong when Brady's men stumbled across one of the devices and returned it to the mountain.
We're looking at this all wrong.
I'm happy he's wrong.
This will all be worth it to hear you say you were wrong about something, and I was right.
And where everything had gone wrong.
What's wrong? she asked, pausing near him.
Katie ate her food and water cubes, waiting for Gabriel. She fingered the second necklace he'd given her, not convinced Andre was wrong. The beads felt like plastic, and something about Gabe had changed.
Unable to sleep without knowing the truth, Toby huddled beneath the jungle leaves and stretched his senses until he found Katie. He couldn't put her in more danger, if there was something wrong with Ully. She was close enough for him to find when he needed to. If he kept some distance between him and Katie, he could figure out what was wrong with Ully without endangering her more.
What was wrong with me that I had so many nightmares?
He has a black and white sense of right and wrong.
Do you think I was wrong in sending him?
Something had gone awry, or so the twins found out a day or two later, although Vinnie swore everything went according to plan and they hadn't done anything wrong.
You fellows have got it all wrong.
Perhaps the time was wrong.
Your buddy is being a little coy but he's hung around the wrong people long enough to pick up some information.
Even the drive to the Poconos went well, with Dean only making two wrong turns.
Tell me what's wrong?
As soon as he entered the house, he knew something was wrong.
I was with her in Norfolk when they popped the sheet on the wrong guy.
If you'd spend as much time chasing after the truth as you do trying to convince your gut instincts they're wrong maybe we'd get somewhere.
He even stooped to playing a Loretta Lynn CD, although if Fred had caught him he would have sworn it was in the wrong container.
I went down a one-way street the wrong way and he didn't have the guts to follow.
Thank God it didn't appear she had been contacted by her husband, but something was seriously wrong and Dean was smack-dab in the middle of it.
When you found the bug, I was sure we were dead ducks, but you blamed the wrong guys.
There was too much that could go wrong, but Winston insisted.
Maybe. Correct me if I'm wrong.
There are no right or wrong answers to these questions.
Being ultra conservative and religious didn't make her parents wrong.
Maybe Mary was right – and yet, that would mean her parents had been wrong.
No, because you might realize you're wrong.
Whether it was right or wrong, it certainly felt good to step into his stride.
Where did I go wrong, Carmen?
Yes, but I thought you might take it wrong.
Maybe the doctors were wrong about Alex.
There was no defined point at which everything went wrong – or right, depending on the viewpoint.
Is something wrong with Lori?
I remember, but I was wrong.
Are you sure nothing is wrong?
I didn't mean to imply that there was anything wrong with the way you dress.
It felt strange - and somehow wrong.
Nothing is wrong and I'm not overwhelmed with work.
There's nothing wrong with our sex life, Carmen.
Josh saw me running after Brutus and came over to see what was wrong.
Maybe it was wrong to pray for a baby when he was so certain that it was impossible.
Most of all, I don't want you to avoid the doctor when there could be something wrong.
And you thought missing him so badly was wrong.
I thought there was something wrong with me.
There's something about him that rubs me the wrong way.
What's wrong with Bill?
The premonition was wrong.
She had done nothing wrong.
No, he didn't want to consider the possibility that he might be wrong.
You wanted a man who would wear the pants — so if anything went wrong the blame would be on him, not you.
I said something wrong?
He was wrong, though.
I guess I was wrong.
Was she merely looking for someone to blame if the decision was wrong?
I was wrong about Alexia.
I'm not wrong about Lori's baby.
Two young lives wasted because they fell in love with the wrong person.
I suppose this rights your wrong, though I will never forgive you.
It would have been wrong to talk badly about him to Felipa.
Well, he'd be barking up the wrong tree.
Where had she gone wrong?
But Josh was wrong.
After all that's happened, do you think a simple 'I'm sorry, I was wrong' heals the wounds?
Perhaps I was wrong to make such decisions for you only because you live in my house.
She searched his face but found no clue as to what she had done wrong.
She couldn't remember a single time when they were wrong.
Of course, they had to have been wrong sometime.
If this be overlooked, a wrong impression may be derived as to the absolute amplitudes of the changes.
When that passionate young prince, in revenge for a fancied wrong, resolved to drive the English out of Bengal, his first step was to occupy the fortified factory at Cossimbazar, and make prisoners of Hastings and his companions.
In this matter the opposition were in the wrong, and by attacking the parliament discredited themselves.
None of them has an idea of what the West calls morality, except the simple one of right or wrong arising out of property.
It would be wrong, however, to conclude that moral considerations have led up to this state of things.
His faith made him believe that his adversaries were in the wrong; but how great must have been this faith, which permitted him to undertake the work at a time when mechanical appliances for the execution of such an undertaking did not exist, and when for the utilization of the proposed canal there was as yet no steam mercantile marine !
Custom or public opinion doubtless secured that the parties would not agree to wrong.
If by any chance wrong signals are printed or the instruments get out of phase, the sender is stopped by the receiver sending a few signals, after which both type-wheels are again set to zero and correspondence continued.
The electrical condition of the cable was then excellent, but unfortunately the electrician in charge, Wildman Whitehouse, conceived the wrong idea that it should be worked by currents of high potential.
Then if the king or any of his servants do wrong and complaint is made to four of the twenty-five, they are to ask for redress.
The discovery of a single fossil creature in a geological stratum of a wrong period, the detection of a single anatomical or physiological fact irreconcilable with origin by descent with modification, would have been destructive of the theory and would have made the reputation of the observer.
The pope received the appeal, absolved him and restored him to the rank of priest, and sent a bishop and two priests as legates to Africa with instructions to them to hear the cause of Apiarius anew and for execution of their sentence to crave the prefect's aid; moreover, they were to summon the bishop of Sicca to Rome and to excommunicate him, unless he should amend those things which the legates deemed wrong.
Equally disastrous are those climatic or seasonal changes which involve temperatures in themselves not excessive but in wrong sequence; how many more useful plants could be grown in the open in the United Kingdom if the deceptively mild springs were not so often followed by frosts in May and June!
The peculiar service which was rendered at this juncture by the ` Cambridge School' was that, instead of opposing a mere dogmatic opposition to the Tubingen critics, they met them frankly on their own ground; and instead of arguing that their conclusions ought not to be and could not be true, they simply proved that their facts and their premisses were wrong.
It has also been identified with a mound now called et-Tell (" the heap"), but though the name of a neighbouring village, Turmus Aya, is suggestive, it is in the wrong direction from Bethel.
Check my contribution to see all my changes and discuss them with me if i did something wrong.
The use of the word "clergy" as a plural, though the New English Dictionary quotes the high authority of Cardinal Newman for it, is less rare than wrong; in the case cited "Some hundred Clergy" should have been "Some hundred of the Clergy."
The different threads of social activity are so closely interwoven that we cannot follow any one for very long without forming wrong impressions, and it becomes necessary to turn back and study others which seemed at first sight unrelated to the subject of our investigations.
As chivalry directed the layman to defend what was right, so the preaching of the Crusades directed him to attack what was wrong - the possession by "infidels" of the Sepulchre of Christ.
Eusebius having gone wrong on this point, others of the Fathers followed suit, so that Philo is reckoned by Jerome among the ecclesiastical writers of the Christians.
On these points he was grievously wrong, and on all he changed his views after a good deal of bitter experience.
By his own investigations and those of Sir Edward Frankland it was proved that the radical methyl existed in acetic acid; and by the electrolysis of sodium acetate, Kolbe concluded that he had isolated this radical; in this, however, he was wrong, for he really obtained ethane, C 2 H 6, and not methyl, CH 3.
All that kind of pre-established harmony Wagner left behind him the moment he deserted the heroes and villains of romantic opera for the visionary and true tragedy of gods and demi-gods, giants and gnomes, with beauty, nobility and love in the wrong, and the forces of destruction and hate set free by blind justice.
It would be wrong, however, to believe that Eugenius IV.
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And though it would be wrong to call Bede a critical historian in the modern sense of the words, he shows a very unusual conscientiousness in collecting his information from the best available sources, and in distinguishing between what he believed to be fact, and what he regarded only as rumour or tradition.
He does not enquire into the abstract right and wrong of any case, but subjects it to the acid test of proletarian interests.
It would be wrong to suppose that Lenin drew profits from the misdeeds of his associates.
Early in that year was begun The Wrong Box, a farcical romance in which Mr Lloyd Osbourne participated; Stevenson also began a romance about the Indian Mutiny, which he abandoned.
Two Latin translations have been published in this work by the same scholar - one on pp. 164-180, the other under the wrong title, Pseudo-Matthaei Evangelium, on pp. 93-112.
He drew up, with Burnet's assistance, a paper containing his apology, and he wrote to the king a letter, to be delivered after his death, in which he asked Charles's pardon for any wrong he had done him.
But there were those, including Bishop Colenso, who thought the treatment of the Amahlubi wrong, and their agitation induced the British government to recall Sir Benjamin Pine, Sir Garnet Wolseley being sent out as temporary governor.
It might, perhaps, have gone hard with him if his counsel had been strictly followed, as he confessed to have had from his thirty-seventh year a friendly demon, who, if properly invoked, touched his right ear when he purposed doing what was wrong, and his left when he meditated doing good.
In any case the titles are manifestly the product of the same uncritical spirit as we have just been speaking of, for not only are many of the titles certainly wrong, but they are wrong in such a way as to prove that they date from an age to which David was merely the abstract psalmist and which had no idea whatever of the historical conditions of his age.
At the same time a passenger crossing the highway is also bound to use due care in avoiding vehicles, and the mere fact of a driver being on the wrong side of the road would not be evidence of negligence in such a case.
Dirck Coornhert argued, in private conferences and public disputations, that it was wrong to punish heretics, and his great opponents were, as a rule, the ministers, who maintained that there was no room for more than one religion in a state.
To assign any specific date to the end of this formative age is of course impossible, but meaning by the end what has just been stated, we shall not be far wrong if we place it somewhere near the beginning of the 10th century.
It is almost impossible even with the most discriminating care to give a brief account of completed feudalism and convey no wrong impression.
The old view held by Toland and others that the Italian was a translation from the Arabic is demonstrably wrong.
He found it almost impossible to believe that anything could be wrong in persons to whom he had given his friendship, and on several occasions such friends proved themselves unworthy of him.
There were conceptions of less importance than these, in which it is impossible not to feel that it was Saint-Simon's wrong or imperfect idea that put his young admirer on the track to a right and perfected idea.
Comte's subsequent attitude of censorious condemnation put him entirely in the wrong.
No effective unity can follow from it, because you can only find out the right and wrong of a given course by summing up the advantages and disadvantages, and striking a balance, and there is nothing in the Religion of Humanity to force two men to find the balance onthesame side.
Election after election went wrong.
But the Union troops steadily advanced, growing in strength as they went, and a few days after Lee's surrender at Appomattox Johnston advised President Davis that it was in his opinion wrong and useless to continue the conflict, and he was authorized to make terms with Sherman.
Spencer, however, considers that he can not only anticipate such a state of complete adjustment, but even lay down the rules obtaining in it, which will constitute the code of "Absolute Ethics" and the standard for discerning the "least wrong" actions of relative ethics.
With all the Puritan eagerness to push a clear, uncompromising, Scripture-based distinction of right and wrong into the affairs of every-day life, he has a thoroughly English horror of casuistry, and his clumsy canons consequently make wild work with the infinite intricacies of human nature.
He is, in fact, an instance of the tendency, which has so often been remarked by other nations in the English, to drag in moral distinctions at every turn, and to confound everything which is novel to the experience, unpleasant to the taste, and incomprehensible to the understanding, under the general epithets of wrong, wicked and shocking.
Thucydides is almost certainly wrong in saying that the amount of the original tribute was 460 talents (about £106,000); this figure cannot have been reached for at least twelve, probably twenty years, when new members had been enrolled (Lycia, Caria, Eion, Lampsacus).
Similarly he is probably wrong, or at all events includes items of which the tribute lists take no account, when he says that it amounted to 600 talents at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War.
They had, in fact, no idea of doing wrong, and their moral feelings did not come into play.
From this principle, it follows (I) that the distinction between right and wrong is part of the constitution of human nature; (2) that morality stands apart from theology, and the moral qualities of actions are determined apart from the arbitrary will of God; (3) that the ultimate test of an action is its tendency to promote the general harmony or welfare; (4) that appetite and reason concur in the determination of action; and (5) that the moralist is not concerned to solve the problem of freewill and determinism.
If Hallam can ever be said to have deviated from perfect fairness, it was in the tacit assumption that the 19th-century theory of the constitution was the right theory in previous centuries, and that those who departed from it on one side or the other were in the wrong.
Jean offered a solution of the problem; his brother pronounced it to be wrong.
It was perhaps impossible for him to renounce his rights, and his education, co-operating with his natural disposition, made it morally impossible for him to believe that he could be in the wrong.
The Christian duty of love to those that wrong us does not seem to have impressed itself on our Apocalyptist.
To this appeal Polycarp made the memorable answer, "Eighty and six years have I served Him and He bath done me no wrong.
Few sins of omission can be charged against Garrick as a manager, but he refused Home's Douglas, and made the wrong choice between False Delicacy and The Good Natur'd Man.
In the medieval Church there were seven "corporal" and seven "spiritual works of mercy" (opera misericordiae); these were (a) the giving of food to the hungry and drink to the thirsty, the clothing of the naked, the visitation of the sick and of prisoners, the receiving of strangers, and the burial of the dead; (b) the conversion of sinners, teaching of the ignorant, giving of counsel to the doubtful, forgiveness of injuries, patience under wrong, prayer for the living and for the dead.
He argued that the administration of the Church belongs, like all administration, to the state authorities, and that if these go wrong it then lies with Christian people to depose them.
Hence the corps appeared too soon, and in the wrong direction.
He knows that the roots of the quarrel lie in a wrong condition of the church's life.
If the wrong spirit can be exorcised, there is hope that the quarrel will end in a general desire for reconciliation.
John of Damascus (c. 750) believed the bread to be mysteriously changed into the Christ's body, just as when eaten it is changed into any human body; and he argued that it is wrong to say, as Irenaeus had said, that the elements are mere antitypes after as before consecration.
Severity, on the other hand, seemed to him not only inexpedient, but positively wrong.
Suppose, for instance, that some casuists held it wrong to dance on Sunday, while others held it perfectly lawful.
Strict moralists - called rigorists, or "tutiorists" - maintained that the austerer opinion ought always to be followed; dancing on Sundays was certainly wrong, if any good authorities had declared it to be so.
Inspectors are employed to give information regarding the packing of fruit, and also to see to the enforcement of the Fruit Marks Acts, which prohibit the marking of fruit with wrong brands and packing in any fraudulent manner.
Let us suppose that from a text which we will call A a copy has been made which we will call B, and from this again a copy which we will call C. If the copyist of B goes wrong once and the copyist of C twice in a hundred times, then, assuming that there is no coincidence or cancelling of errors, the relative correctness of the three texts A, B, C will be zoo (absolute correctness), 99 and 97.
Further, a, corrector may propose the right word with the wrong meaning.
To join in prayer with any one not a member of the denomination was regarded as unlawful, and even to eat or drink with one who had been excommunicated was held to be wrong.
National culture, economic progress and the production of wealth are either paralysed or developed in a wrong direction.
Hardly any one will be so confident of the virtue of his rulers as to believe that every war which his country wages in every part of its dominions with uncivilized as well as civilized populations, is just and necessary, and it is certainly prima facie not in accordance with an ideal morality that men should bind themselves absolutely for life or for a term of years to kill without question, at the command of their superiors, those who have personally done them no wrong."
The etymology may be wrong, but this is the popular sense of the word.
He agrees with Fechner that physical process of nerve and psychical process of mind are really the same psychophysical process as appearing on the one hand to an observer and on the other hand to one's own consciousness; and that physical phenomena only produce physical phenomena, so that those materialists and realists are wrong who say that physical stimuli produce sensations.
Yet Martineau adopted, as his view of the limits of human intelligence, that Kant was right in making space and time a priori forms of sense, but wrong in limiting them to sensations.
The Thomism, therefore, of our day is wrong, from a metaphysical point of view, so far as it elevates Aristotelianism, as seriously modified but not fundamentally corrected by Aquinas, into an authoritative orthodoxy in metaphysics.
In its most simple and attractive form - one at the same time invested with the authority of the reputed holy author - their account of the creation of the world and of man; the origin of sin and redemption, the history of the Cross, and the disputes between body and soul, right and wrong, heaven and hell, were embodied either in "Historiated Bibles" (Paleya 1) or in special dialogues held between Christ and his disciples, or between renowned Fathers of the Church who expounded these views in a simple manner adapted to the understanding of the people (Lucidaria).
His letter, preserved by the imperial biographer, Eusebius of Caesarea, is a state document inspired by a wisely conciliatory policy; it made out both parties to be equally in the right and in the wrong, at the same time giving them both to understand that such questions, the meaning of which would be grasped only by the few, had better not be brought into public discussion; it was advisable to come to an agreement where the difference of opinion was not fundamental.
It was not founded on any intuitive ideas of right and wrong, nor was it fashioned upon any outward experiences of time and place, but it was formed entirely on what he held to be the revelation of the will of God in the written word, and throughout all his life his faith led him to act up to the very letter of it."
The attack made by David Hume on the causal relation led directly to the new rationalism of Kant, who argued that it was wrong to regard thought as mere analysis.
The absence of the author's final revision may partly account for many repetitions, and for some contradictions, for mistakes in passages borrowed from Greek authors, and for the insertion of marginal additions at wrong places in the text.
After Becket's flight (1164), the king put himself still further in the wrong by impounding the revenues of Canterbury and banishing at one stroke a number of the archbishop's friends and connexions.
The spirit of chivalry implies the arbitrary choice of one or two virtues to be practised in such an exaggerated degree as to become vices, while the ordinary laws of right and wrong are forgotten.
Not a single friend, not a single enemy, was forgotten; the slightest service, the slightest wrong, had its place assigned in her faithful and implacable memory for retribution or reward.
It is a wrong though common practice to press the surface of the soil in the pot in order to feel if it is moist enough, as this soon consolidates it, and prevents it from getting the full benefit of aeration.
Both parties put themselves in the wrong, the province by refusing its quota to the federal war-sheet, the generality by dealing with individual towns instead of with the states of the province.
Hobbes and Locke were wrong in saying that the mind must find in the relation the idea of Power.
The Authorized Version, following the corrupt cursives, is often wrong.
He is described at this period as intellectual, upright and absolutely trustworthy, but obstinate and self-opinionated to the highest degree, arguing with antiquaries about coins, with equerries about horses, and with foreigners about their own countries, always certain that he was right and they wrong, whatever the discussion might be.
He was little attracted by the scholastic learning, though it would be wrong to take his words as evidence of a precocious insight into its weakness.
Aristotle, who speaks highly of the sincerity of Eudoxus's convictions, while giving a qualified approval to his arguments, considers him wrong in not distinguishing the different kinds of pleasure and in making pleasure the summum bonum.
The discussions of the next few years served to make clearer than before the practical workings of the constitution of the United States as a shield and support of slavery; and Garrison, after a long and painful reflection, came to the conclusion that its pro-slavery clauses were immoral, and that it was therefore wrong to take an oath for its support.
God is to him an absolute despot, who declares a thing right or wrong from no inherent necessity but by his arbitrary fiat.
In the case of the six kings of the XXVIth Dynasty, Africanus, the best of his excerptors, gives correct figures for five reigns, but attributes six instead of sixteen years to Necho; the other excerptors have wrong numbers throughout.
Dynasty Manethos figures are wrong wherever we can check them; the names, too, are seriously faulty.
In the XIIth Dynasty the number of the kings is correct and many of the names can be justified, but the reign-lengths are nearly, if not quite, all wrong.
The news supplied was meagre and inappropriate, and it did not take long for mischievous results to accrue, and the official mind was at first disposed to blame the Press for what was wrong in the " publicity " of the moment.
His interests were secular and he was certainly proud and ambitious; but Stubbs has pictured the fairer side of his character when he observes that Beaufort "was merciful in his political enmities, enlightened in his foreign policy; that he was devotedly faithful, and ready to sacrifice his wealth and labour for the king; that from the moment of his death everything began to go wrong, and 'went worse and worse until all was lost."
He felt that the institution was morally wrong, but held that Congress could not interfere with it in the states in which it existed, and ought not to hinder the natural tendency toward territorial expansion through a fear that the evil would spread.
It is now acknowledged by all linguists that this supposition is quite wrong, and that the Aryans probably came from Europe.
That decision is not only wrong, it is a misinterpretation of the rules.
This conception of the pilgrimage, as a means of expiation or a source of pardon for wrong, was foreign to the ancient Church.
It would, however, be wrong to suppose that the influence of truly Hellenic art on Phrygia began with the conquest of Alexander.
In one of the Dialogues 2 instances are given - the desire for emancipation from sensuality, aspirations towards the attainment of love to others, the wish not to injure any living thing, the desire for the eradication of wrong and for the promotion of right dispositions in one's own heart, and so on.
Now this is admittedly wrong.
In avenging wrong, a member of the village or of the clan to which the offender belonged would serve equally well to satisfy their ideas of justice if the culprit himself could not be easily reached.
The latter supplied only the rough materials; the Gotz von Berlichingen whom Goethe drew, with his lofty ideals of right and wrong, and his enthusiasm for freedom, is a very different personage from the unscrupulous robber-knight of the 16th century, the rough friend of Franz von Sickingen and of the revolting peasants.
The early stages of morphinism are marked by moral degeneration; the patient seems to lose all sense of right and wrong, and will lie most plausibly and even thieve to obtain the drug; personal disorderliness, disregard of time, neglect of business and decline of family affection become soon evident.
Whether Cicero was right or wrong, none can question his amazing energy.
He sometimes deliberately puts the case upon a wrong issue.
As psychology recognizes a distinction of pleasure and pain, and metaphysics of good and evil, so morality assumes the difference between right and wrong in action, good and bad in character; but the distinction in psychology and metaphysics applies to what is, the difference in morality is based on a judgment of what is by what ought to be.
In the theological phrase original sin it means the inherited tendency to do wrong.
From the Posthumous Papers (pp. ' 22, 24) it is clear that Mrs Grote was wrong in asserting that she first in 1823 (autumn) suggested the History of Greece; the book was already in preparation in 1822, though what was then written was subsequently reconstructed.
But it must be kept in mind that the conversion of services into rents went on very gradually, as a series of private agreements, and that it would be very wrong to suppose, as some scholars have done, that it had led to a general commutation by the middle or even the end of the 14th century.
So far as he follows Aristotle in saying that " all " does not mean a definite number of individuals he is right; but when he says that we mean no individuals at all he deserts Aristotle and goes wrong.
Hence Sigwart is right in saying that " All bodies are extended " means " Whatever is a body is extended," but wrong in identifying this form with " If anything is a body it is extended."
But whether Kant be right or wrong, Wundt and his school are decidedly wrong in supposing " supplementary notions which are not contained in experience itself, but are gained by a process of logical treatment of this experience "; as if our behalf in causality could be neither a posteriori nor a priori, but beyond experience wake up in a hypothetical major premise of induction.
It is evident that this is a very delicate method of determining the wetness z, but, since with dry saturated steam at low pressures this formula always gives negative values of the wetness, it is clear that Regnault's numerical coefficients must be wrong.
The values so found are necessarily erroneous if formula (io) for the total heat is wrong.
But finally Frankfort, having chosen the wrong side in the war of 1866, was annexed by Prussia, and only the three seaboard towns remain as full members of the new confederate Empire under the style of Freie and Hansestddte.
It is not to be supposed that one of these great geologists was necessarily in the wrong; each had right on his side.
The dates are often wrong, and little attention is paid to geographical details, which makes the narrative of military expeditions beyond the borders of the empire difficult to understand.
That is to say, there are no general principles of action, and no words which indicate that acts have been classified as good or bad, right or wrong.
The book in short forms so good a prologue to the action of the war that we can hardly be wrong in attributing it to the genius which devised the rest of the Iliad.
Even in Italy, though his general course of action was warped by wrong prepossessions, he in many instances manifested exceptional practical sagacity in dealing with immediate difficulties and emergencies.
This was simply a cumbrous way of saying that God awakens in the righteous heart an intuitive faculty of discerning right from wrong.
The idea of plagiarism as a wrong is comparatively modern, and has grown up with the increasing sense of property in works of the intellect.
Vasari's account of this invention, given in his lives of Pollaiuolo and Maso Finiguerra, is very interesting, but he is wrong in asserting that Maso was the first worker in niello who took proofs or impressions of his plates.
For, if the ultimate ground, of obligation lay in a refined sensitiveness to differences between right and wrong, what should be said to a man who might affirm that, just as he had no ear for music, he was insensitive to ethical differences commonly recognized ?
The Commons, however, passed a bill annulling the sentence; and a conference was held in which the Lords, while again acknowledging that legally they were wrong, adhered to their former determination.
With all his learning and ingenuity Coke failed in inducing or even forcing the jury to bring in a bill against the court of chancery, and it seems fairly certain that on the technical point of law involved he was wrong.
Bacon's conduct throughout the affair has been blamed, but apparently on wrong grounds.
But the soberminded among the Jews - these had throughout been the vast majority - seized their opportunity to reclaim those who had been the victims of a terrible wrong.