Virtually any positive trait when taken to extremes, misunderstood, or misapplied, can quickly become a liability.

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Unfortunately, those beliefs were misapplied in this case, but we still hold the general principle to be true.

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But the tax cases in which they are misapplied and audited are legion.

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But the Court of Appeal upheld Siac's decision last month, saying the lower court had not misinterpreted nor misapplied the law.

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But Deming was, for the most part, misunderstood and misapplied.

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Meltwater said it believes Cote misapplied the fair use doctrine.

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The Act is confusing to those of us who practice in the area regularly, and it can be easily misunderstood and misapplied by those courts which do not regularly face UFTA issues, i.e.

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In asking the Supreme Court to review the issue, Wal-Mart said the appeals court misapplied the standards for defining a class of plaintiffs, exposing it to punitive damages when it should be liable only for back pay.

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In fact, the history of this period is one in which America's leaders have allowed the systematic dismantling of much of its capacity for waging the war of ideas via such broadcasts and woefully misapplied much of what remains.

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