Erred in example sentence

The United States managed to get it right, albeit very slowly, whereas many European countries erred on the side of the status quo for a much longer time, if not systematically, as they refused to see that the region could be evolving in a direction contrary to what they deemed to be in their strategic interest.

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The paper’s central premise was that Japan’s monetary and fiscal authorities had erred mainly by acting too timidly.

And when counseling Asian countries on how to manage the crisis, the IMF erred – not for the last time, it should be noted – in the direction of too much fiscal austerity.

A faster pace for rates hikes could have offset the slow start, but the ECB again erred on the side of caution.

To be sure, I must acknowledge that I erred in one respect, which I am grateful to Skidelsky for pointing out.

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