Sentences with phrase «on wrong premises»

I am perfectly fine with people not liking the film, it just bothers me when people tell me, on wrong premises, that I shouldn't like the film either.

Since they are not faceless writers, their articles were well - intentioned and wakeup calls on security situation in the country though some of the assumptions on the person of the NSA were on wrong premises.

That the end has not arrived and Jesus has not come in some world - shattering way is proof that all such speculative prophecy has been in vain and wrong, based on a wrong premise.

Government guidelines re: vitamin C is useless, because it's based on wrong premise.

Not exact matches

If you maintain a contrarian mindset, and start with the premise that most investors do the wrong thing at the wrong time, you are less likely to be panicked and act on emotion when others do.

Earl Dreeshen, the first Conservative to speak to the motion, objected on the grounds that the premise of the motion is wrong — that the money is not, as the NDP motion puts it, «missing.»

Brown's conclusion is based on this premise and it is here that Brown has gone wrong in his argument.

He based his theory of motion on false premises, and so the results are absurdly wrong.

The pundit's remarks were premised on a number of very wrong assumptions and assessment of the situation.

I'm not saying spending on the OL is a bad idea, or that you are wrong at all, because I do agree with your basic premise.

But since the one statement of fact in the entire article is wrong, and the whole analysis is built on an erroneous premise, I'm not enormously interested in the policy recommendations.

While I'm not surprised that you got a ton of upvotes on here, this answer is full of premises that are just wrong.

As it stands, it is clear that the court below premised its decision on this issue on a wrong appreciation of the claim of the appellants before the trial Federal High Court.

What is more likely, I ask: that every scientist on the planet who has a different view than RC is wrong, or that RC makes its «mind» up a-priori, and then proceeds from that premise?

It would be one thing if the McTeigue and screenwriter Ryan Engle sold the audience on the premise of «What if a bunch of criminals messed with the wrong mom?

It's a fun premise, don't get me wrong, but there's an overwhelming amount of info to take on board.

Based on a popular Japanese manga series, this live - action version gets almost everything wrong, despite an intriguing premise.

If the premise makes it sound like Glazer's sold out and made a commercial horror / sci - fi genre picture, you couldn't be more wrong — this is the filmmaker at his most experimental and unfiltered, with stunning images that of all three of his films to date, is most reminiscent of his unforgettable commercials work (more on this below).

Though the premise has the makings of a reasonable sci - fi movie — two guys stranded on earth years after civilization — somewhere along the line something has gone very, very wrong.

The premise, which pits crooks on both sides of the law against each other in the aftermath of a heist gone wrong, might bring to mind the foul - mouthed Tarantino imitations of yesteryear, but this style-less Take Your Daughter To Work Day release doesn't even have the personality of a knock - off.

I also very much appreciated [Lecturer] Rick Weissbourd's class on Moral Education, whose central premise is that moral education is more than a matter of moral literacy, of helping children to determine right from wrong.

The premise of the game is simple: a math equation (always addition) pops up on your screen and you have 2 seconds to decide whether it is right or wrong (and try to get as many right as you can in a row).

The record run - up in equity markets since then doesn't mean he's wrong — it just means that he will have had to be very patient for any investments based on this premise to pan out.

By presenting Boress's installation together with Mousavi's paintings and ephemera, For All the Wrong Reasons examines the possibilities of a reflection on political context within the premise of an art exhibit.

They start with a premise of proving the overwhelming consensus on climate science wrong, whereas the real IPCC simply summarizes the best science to date on climate change.

And, as Matt Yglesias points out, one of Dubner and Levitt's arguments rests on the (demonstrably wrong and in any case wildly irrelevant) premise that solar panels are always black.

This entire article is based on a few absurdly wrong premises.

At most, you have built an argument in which one of the premises is wrong (# 3, and I'm not sure if your characterization of aerosol inverse modelling is specific enough to help people understand) and therefore it casts doubt on the conclusion.

In each case their arguments have been proven demonstrably wrong, and yet they keep coming up with new variations on the same fundamentally flawed premise.

Predicting the future may be «an inescapable task for decisionmakers,» but it is not the only task and it is wrong to plan solely on predictive premises.

Long - term strategies should be built not on «visions» of the future but instead on the premise that longer term predictions (that is, forecasts of situations years and decades out), however presently credible, will probably prove wrong.

It's an interesting enough paper, but the argument ultimately depends on the premise that the model is fundamentally correct, so if the natural - only control run doesn't look like the real world, then the natural - only assumption must be wrong.

They are willing to cause mass starvation of folks on the other side of the world, rather than acknowledge that their original premise has been proven to be completely wrong.

No they are not shrinking and as far as AGW the basic premises this theory has been based on are all wrong.

Moreover, Malthus was wrong on population increase on other important aspects, just as Garrett Hardin was proven wrong by last year Nobel price winner Elinor Ostrom, exactly because his premises did not correspond very less to empirical reality.

A necessary premise of Thomson's argument is that the court will, on the merits, decide that Thomson committed no legal wrong and that its Litigator service is not an infringement of copyright or a violation of individual class members» moral rights.

The statute also is based on the premise that it is wrong to presume a person to be more dangerous because of race or sex or religion or nationality or place of birth or place of residence.

Doug Brackmann: One of the basic premises of the book is that being driven, having this reward deficiency, we essentially have to develop something called insight, you know, the ability to look into our inner world and really question what is our central nervous system telling us about what's going on around us, and if we're feeling like there's always something missing or wrong, you'll find it.

In short, this means that if you were doing nothing wrong and you were lawfully on a premises you can recover for damages caused by a dog, even if the dog has never attacked anyone else before.

Indeed, PJ O'Rourke recently make a brilliant amicus brief to the US Supreme Court on the constitutional merit of false political speech (http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/sba-list-merits-filed-brief.pdf) Mind you, not all untruths are defamatory (and, indeed, PJ O'Rourke's submission is based on the premise that while the state can't / shouldn't ban untruthful political speech, wronged politicians can nevertheless seek the remedy of a defamation suit).

(She would be wrong if interpretive formalism is illusory, but she would be right on her own premises.)

While it was considered acceptable to express personal sorrow and to sympathise with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for their evident pain, such responses were basically premised on a denial that Australia's Indigenous peoples were wronged in any way which gives rise to contemporary liability, either moral or legal.

Still, the fundamental premise on which it was based - that children were better off away from their black families - was wrong, indeed repugnant.