Examples of misapply

• This list excludes many other areas of research that are less easily distinguished but equally dangerous if misapplied.

• At the very least, one could object that the notion of multiple passivization is misapplied here, as the formal similarity is plausibly regarded as concord.

• Not only are secondary sources often over-used, they are frequently misapplied.

• Alternatively, they may take the judgment to other authorities through the petitioning system (shangfang), and claim that the courts have misapplied the laws.

• This means that purely ethical consistency arguments are often misapplied, because they assume a transitivity of moral acceptability that often is not there.

• As with all psychiatric terms, personality disorder can be misapplied as a pejorative label.

• This could be because the forms have been misapplied, and a synthesised organisation of the basic idea or pattern has not been achieved.

• It is not surprising that subjects make errors by misapplying strategies that work for other tasks.

• Primitive operations that may be misapplied are highlighted in red, while the rest are highlighted in green.

• They will tend to misapply rules to themselves, particularly when the rule is formulated in pejorative language.

• Dworkin urges that prior decisions misapplied the concept and therefore misapplied the law.

• Even if it is not dangerous, the drugs can be misapplied or misdirected.

• It unifies a valley by clear demarcation instead of confusing and depriving the citizens of the valley by splitting villages and misapplying scarce resources.

• They have almost grotesquely misapplied the whole concept of fairness repeatedly in many of their policies over the past two and a half years.

• If young people are being let down in a particular area, if resources are being misapplied, we need to instigate action on their behalf.