Mistake
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1844 examples of Mistake in a sentence
The copy I have seen, contains several brief hardcore sexscenes, that seems to have been left in the movie by
mistake.
A free afternoon, a few bucks to go see a movie, some good friends by my side, and I made the regretful
mistake
of going to see "Cats & Dogs."
10) Francois Truffaut - I'm sorry, nothing against the guy personally, but Spielberg casting him in this movie was a
mistake.
The absence of the Thenardiers was a terrible mistake, they are crucial to understand the character of not only Cosette, but Jean Valjean, Marius, and Javert as well.
This is no less of a
mistake
in the case of Russia, with a leader like Putin who measures himself and his fellow leaders in terms of crude machismo.
The IMF’s apology was a
mistake
for two reasons.
There is, however, a lively debate about whether there was a fourth big mistake: Alan Greenspan’s decision in 2001-2004 to push and keep nominal interest rates on US Treasury securities very low in order to try to keep the economy near full employment.
Rather, Greenspan's
mistake
– if it was a
mistake
– was his failure to overrule the market and aggressively push the interest rate up above its natural rate, which would have deepened and prolonged the recession that started in 2001.
But today is one of those days when I don’t think that Greenspan’s failure to raise interest rates above the natural rate to generate high unemployment and avert the growth of a mortgage-finance bubble was a
mistake.
This shortsightedness is a grave
mistake
that impedes innovation and progress.
But it would be a
mistake
to assume that allowing money to dominate every sphere of life comes without other costs that are difficult to express in financial terms.
Before 2007, such a policy was seen as a
mistake
at worst; now it is interpreted as a malign strategy.
But one should not make the
mistake
of viewing these interventions in black-and-white terms.
But if Kirchner's presidency gives rise to yet more political frustration, then we Argentines will again make the
mistake
of looking for a caudillo who promises to answer all our prayers.
The best joke of all – that Bezos bought the Post by
mistake
through an errant one-click purchase (a capability patented by Amazon) – has a ring of truth to it.
The purchase was not an economically motivated decision, though it was no
mistake.
But viewing intervention in Syria within the paradigm of Western messianism is a
mistake.
The Ayatollah and the WitchesWASHINGTON, DC – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has now made the
mistake
that all Iranian presidents make: he has challenged the authority of the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
But it would be a
mistake
to “over-learn” the lessons that the Arab revolutions have taught about information, technology, and power.
This is their second
mistake.
Prominent US politicians who supported the 2003 invasion – including many Republicans – now admit that it was a mistake, as do a majority of Americans.
Of course, its current ideological hostility to Israel’s very existence is a serious issue; but Israel and the West should not compound their grievous
mistake
of not recognizing the legitimacy of its electoral victory in Gaza by rejecting any Palestinian state in which Hamas plays a governing role.
And make no mistake: the election of Emmanuel Macron is a landmark event, raising hopes that France will re-energize its economy sufficiently to become a full and equal partner to Germany in eurozone governance.
But overseeing a faltering economy was hardly the only
mistake
Soviet leaders made.
Indeed, the Fed has doubled down on an approach aimed at recreating the madness of an asset- and credit-dependent consumption model – precisely the
mistake
that pushed the US economy toward the abyss in 2003-2006.
But closing off dialogue with Iran would be a precipitous and dangerous
mistake.
But it was a
mistake
for the Norwegian Nobel Committee to cite his work in Aceh as a reason for giving him the prize.
To see the
mistake
in this criticism, imagine that, on the basis of theory and some assumptions, one recommends new policy X, even though there is no hard evidence regarding whether or not X works.
Blair made the fatal
mistake
of setting his own limit to his tenure of office by saying that he would not contest a fourth election as leader of the Labour Party.
A
mistake
in a presidential debate can turn the tide of public opinion overnight, as happened to President Gerald Ford in his debate with Jimmy Carter in 1976.
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