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- verb Present participle of
misapply .
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Examples
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Maybe people are misapplying their intuitions from being in bodies of water.
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And I don; t know whether this mess is occurring because USPTO is misapplying the law or if a flawed statute is leading to these peculiar results.
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And I don; t know whether this mess is occurring because USPTO is misapplying the law or if a flawed statute is leading to these peculiar results.
Spring Break: Patents Gone Wild « Steve Wildstrom on Tech 2010
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The Supremes did not spank the 6th for misapplying AEDPA, although they could have.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Sixth Circuit the New Ninth (At Least in Habeas Cases)? 2010
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It was Russia, after all, that first misused the important emerging norm of R2P when misapplying it to its attempted invasion of Georgia in 2008.
Simon Adams: Russia Veto Simon Adams 2012
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The Supreme Court in June found that the Justice Department had been misapplying a crime theory, known as "honest services" fraud, in Mr. Skilling's case and others.
Enron's Skilling to Seek Release John R. Emshwiller 2010
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The suit stems from articles published in 2009, in which the publication accused Toe of diverting and misapplying millions of dollars given as compensation to victims of a caterpillar worm invasion in Bong County, and ex-combatants working on rubber plantations.
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The Supremes did not spank the 6th for misapplying AEDPA, although they could have.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Sixth Circuit the New Ninth (At Least in Habeas Cases)? 2010
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But after the tragedy of 9/11, misapplying the "war" narrative to supposedly fight Al Qa'ida was very convenient for the neo-conservatives and the oil lobby who wielded such power in the Bush/Cheney Administration.
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SIEGEL: They say that they have not defrauded anyone, the SEC is misapplying the law, and they have been advised by the best lawyers and the best accountants there are.
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