Mr. Bolton, who met with Mr. Annan, said the proposed changes were being wrongly portrayed as a break with past American commitments that were agreed to at the millennium summit meeting in 2000.

Mr. Bennett, whose bail was revoked last June, sat quietly in a blue prison outfit as his lawyer, Michael D. Pinnisi, argued that Mr. Bennett and his family were being wrongly portrayed.

During the trial, defense attorney Catherine Brown Dodson argued that Towery was wrongly portrayed as an innocent elderly man, and that Holberg acted in self-defense when Towery attacked her.

But Joseph Solari Jr., president of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Medical Products Group, told the advisory panel that the implants "have been wrongly portrayed as unsafe."

Last week, a ruling-party heavyweight, Hiromu Nonaka, publicly attacked Mr. Takenaka for "verbal subterfuge," saying he had wrongly portrayed the Resona developments as a positive step.

Davies notoriety in the music business has led to him becoming probably the only Australian rock manager ever to be wrongly portrayed in American TV and film.

In response to the President's speech, leaders of the Michigan Militia told The Associated Press that he had wrongly portrayed their movement as violent.

Apparently Ram Gopal Verma had even shown Raj Thackeray rushes of the film to allay his fears of being wrongly portrayed.

Friends say that he gets wrongly portrayed as "God's Rottweiler" and that he is actually a warm and spiritual man.