Mistake
in sentence
1844 examples of Mistake in a sentence
It would be a
mistake
not to learn lessons from this mess.
But it would be a
mistake
to assume that the reemergence of so-called “XXL powers” like China and India will simply bring a continuation of Western traditions.
But to do so would be a big
mistake.
It would be a
mistake
to cast the prospects for an improved US-India relationship solely in terms of China’s rising power.
All I can say is that I feel ashamed for this failure of the German government and – unfortunately – also for the leaders of the red and green opposition parties who at first applauded this scandalous
mistake!
The answer was no – a decision that, in the wake of the 2007-2008 credit crisis, appears to have been a fundamental
mistake.
Against this background, the repeal of the push-out rule was a
mistake.
In fact, the WHO repeatedly violated Sherlock Holmes’ warning, “It is a capital
mistake
to theorize before you have all the evidence.”
I participated in the second assessment of the scientific evidence conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which perhaps made one critical mistake: it underestimated the pace at which global warming was occurring.
Second, repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, which separated commercial and investment banking, was a
mistake.
But it would be a
mistake
to view this as a fight between the executive and the judiciary, or as an attempt to cover up charges that have led to the resignation of three ministers.
Rather than heed his warnings, Reagan’s chief of staff, James Baker, convinced others in the administration to stay the course, so that they would not have to admit that the president’s signature tax-cutting initiative had been a
mistake.
Reinhart and Rogoff quickly acknowledged the Excel
mistake
they had made.
But make no mistake: both parties are implicated.
China’s
mistake
in the past has been to rely too heavily on debt financing.
It would have been a mistake, for example, to destroy America’s excess capacity in fiber optics, from which US firms gained enormously in the 1990s.
Needless to say, such a move would be a
mistake.
But make no mistake: Bottled water is compounding the world’s resource and environmental challenges.
And make no mistake: These events are, at least partly, the result of climate change.
And it would be a grave
mistake
to think that a condominium between the US and China will impose global order in the way that the Cold War-era US/USSR superpower rivalry did.
It is only logical, on this view, that Kim Jong-un wants to avoid the
mistake
made by Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi, both of whom would still be alive and in power had they acquired deliverable nuclear weapons.
Make no mistake: an orderly euro exit by Greece implies significant economic pain.
And, as the US and the broader international community attempt to address the unfolding events, it would be a
mistake
to leave the peace process off the agenda.
In fact, doing so could be a serious
mistake.
Make no mistake: If matters continue on their current course, the narrow-minded nationalism that is on the rise in Germany today will come back to haunt each and every EU member.
Others may be making the opposite mistake, placing too much stock in historical analogies.
Make no mistake: global warming is real, and it is caused by manmade CO2 emissions.
He has already guided the Fed through two very tumultuous years with only one major
mistake
– the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers.
Former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson made the same
mistake
in May 1970, when he tried to take advantage of Labour’s popularity.
After all, autocrats often
mistake
their people’s proclamations of love and admiration for the real thing.
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