What's the difference between misdirection and mismanagement?
Misdirection
Definition:
(n.) The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.
(n.) An error of a judge in charging the jury on a matter of law.
Example Sentences:
(1) This technique was used to bring misdirected urinations in a severely retarded male under rapid stimulus control of a floating target in the commode.
(2) I argue that these lines of argument are conceptually misdirected and have no bearing on the bare permissibility of voluntary euthanasia.
(3) These "misdirected wiping responses" have been explained in terms of two alternative hypotheses of nerve regeneration: nerve respecification or selective reinnervation.
(4) One school of thought, the "eliminative materialistics," see FP as a misdirected and scientifically redundant approach to the mind which should be discarded; the "functionalists," in contrast, consider FP categories, such as belief, to be essential.
(5) These aberrant connections, which may represent misdirected corticospinal fibers, help to explain the impairment of voluntary movements experienced by these subjects.
(6) The sympathetic block of the nerves supplying the head, neck, and arm (Horner's syndrome) resulted from a misdirected intraoral local anesthetic injection.
(7) In a case of general fibrosis syndrom we found almost normally contracting vertical recti, which is compatible only with a supranuclear or misdirectional cause.
(8) Progress had been made with these methods and it is suggested that remediation may be misdirected if the primary language retrieval problem is overlooked in such cases.
(9) b) Management of trichiasis: Electrolysis of misdirected lashes leads to contraction and renewed misdirection.
(10) In Albini’s view, these plans may prove lofty but misdirected.
(11) When, however, neurotic fears, secondary gain, or guilt underlying the inhibited or misdirected will are thoroughly analysed, patients are enabled to strive for their long-range aims, as clarified during the course of their analysis.
(12) The Tory administration, being determined to secure contracts for both its arms manufacturers and the construction company Balfour Beatty, misdirected some £200m to finance a white elephant dam in Malaysia, through an obscure funding mechanism called the Aid and Trade Provision.
(13) You too can perfectly well continue to use Facebook, and even adopt Facebook Home, as long as you make sure to "curate" your data trail with appropriate misdirection.
(14) Opponents, close to the Kremlin, claim he was misguided and misdirected by Berezovsky and others.
(15) But the most insidious, most outrageous and grandest misdirection being put forward by those responsible is that nobody could have seen this coming.
(16) Saccade latency, in the saccade task, and the percentage of errors (misdirected saccades made towards the visual target), in the antisaccade task, were compared in each group of patients with the values of 20 control subjects.
(17) It was concluded that misdirected reflexes are mediated via dorsal nerve branches occupying normal mid-dorsal areas of the back.
(18) When the dam-16 allele is present together with mutD5 a reduced efficiency of repair as well as loss of strand discrimination and misdirected repair results in the appearance of transition mutations at high frequency.
(19) The clinical and electromyographic signs of the misdirection syndrome after oculomotor palsy are described.
(20) On 'valid' cue trials, the cue directed attention to the target's spatial coordinates; on 'invalid' cue trials, the cue misdirected attention.
Mismanagement
Definition:
(n.) Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.
Example Sentences:
(1) But sanctions and mismanagement took their toll, and the scale of the long-awaited economic catharsis won’t be grand,” he says.
(2) But the investigation was not published until almost a year after the whistleblower's approach, as the National Union of Teachers prepared to publish its own documents about the mismanagement at the free school.
(3) In most developing countries, however, treatment services are limited, coverage of the infected female population is inadequate, and women seeking treatment are likely to be mismanaged.
(4) "We believe that this is unavoidable following the recent costs to all the citizens of the UK as a result of banking failures, mismanagement and improper practices," said a spokesperson for the City Reform Group.
(5) Sanchez hasn't worked out because the Jets have mismanaged him, but that doesn't take away from the fact that the actual trade itself reflects good value still today.
(6) To avoid the pitfalls of misdiagnosis and mismanagement, the nature of Crohn's disease should be understood and the gynecologic aspects of the disease recognized.
(7) Epithelioid sarcoma (ES) occasionally may be confused, both clinically and histologically, with isolated necrobiotic granulomas (ING), leading to misdiagnosis and potential mismanagement of these conditions.
(8) He casts Livingstone's tenure as one big financial mismanagement and contrasts this to his own administration, which, he argues, has been rewarded by the coalition government for responsibly cutting waste with funding that will allow major infrastructure investments such as Crossrail and tube upgrades to go ahead.
(9) But then a mismanaged clean-up in an underground garbage dump ignited a seam of anthracite eight miles long that proved impossible to extinguish.
(10) The correction is likely to anger the families of those missing, particularly in China, where there have been accusations that Malaysia has mismanaged the search and deliberately withheld information.
(11) But this week, after months of conflicting statements, the government said it would seek financial help from the IMF in a bid to end a deepening currency crisis exacerbated by mismanagement of oil revenues.
(12) Mismanagement and ballooning costs saw the price tag leap to more than $12bn by 1993, and under Clinton Congress finally voted for building work on the collider to be scrapped.
(13) Urban political corruption and financial mismanagement have only deepened tensions.
(14) Billions and billions raised in the name of people in Bangladesh, in Somalia, in our name, that are mismanaged and used inefficiently.” And anyone expecting her to pipe down soon is in for a disappointment.
(15) Not long ago, Imperial College's medicine department were told that their "productivity" target for publications was to "publish three papers per annum including one in a prestigious journal with an impact factor of at least five.″ The effect of instructions like that is to reduce the quality of science and to demoralise the victims of this sort of mismanagement.
(16) And that world of popular journalism, as I saw it then, and the Herald eventually mutated through the mismanagement of the Mirror Group, its eventual owners, into ...
(17) Domestic economic mismanagement is a big part of the problem, with particular criticism of government cuts in fuel and food subsidies despite public and parliamentary opposition.
(18) The former chairman blamed "mismanagement" for the retailer's dire predicament, and is interested in acquiring some of its stores to add to his DW Sports Fitness chain.
(19) He claimed Osborne’s own economic mismanagement, particularly a swingeing supplementary duty imposed in 2011, was partly to blame for the sector’s slump.
(20) Photograph: Thomas Karlsson Writer Will Coldwell put on his best hipster brogues, turned up his jeans, and sought out a different side of Europe’s major cities in covering these innovative walking tours that revel in art, history, food, drink – and even financial mismanagement.