Mistake
in sentence
1844 examples of Mistake in a sentence
This is a mistake, because military approaches alone cannot make America safe.
Perhaps that would be enough to reassure everyone that policymakers’ current acquiescence in a prolonged slump was a horrible
mistake
that will not be repeated.
On this dimension, the US seems destined to repeat the
mistake
of the British.
In fact, it would be a
mistake
for Japan to roll back its environmental regulations, or its health and safety regulations.
As the benefits of globalization became manifest, and the damage wrought by autarkic policies also became evident, policymakers in the East began to appreciate that their anti-globalization stance had been a
mistake.
Ordinary Japanese say sumimasen countless times each day, to apologize to friends or strangers for even the most trivial accident or
mistake.
That is why Germany’s refusal to help find a way to finance the proposed European investment agenda – which, for a limited time, would fund productive private investment – is a
mistake.
Germany’s fourth policy
mistake
is its apparent withdrawal of support for the ECB.
The US government’s misguided move from potential mediator and problem solver to active backer of the Syrian insurrection was, predictably, a terrible
mistake.
It would be a
mistake
to assume that Germany’s government could ignore or circumvent the court’s decision.
But it would be a
mistake
to assume that Germany's economic performance vindicates its policymaking.
The Americans now realize that I ended up here by
mistake
and have told me that they want to let me go.
For example, though China said little in public about Russia’s invasion and dismemberment of Georgia last summer, Russia is making a strategic
mistake
if it equates China’s public silence with tacit acquiescence in the Kremlin’s claim to “privileged” influence in the post-Soviet countries to China’s west.
The mistake, however, is to assume that open societies are more permissive and vulnerable to terrorism than those who live under authoritarian regimes.
It would be a
mistake
to believe that the deaths of thousands of civilians, along with arbitrary imprisonment and torture, do not contribute to the spread of terror in Iraq.
While the country may seem to be on the “right side of history” – something that the Soviet Union could never claim – triumphalism is a
mistake.
Yet it would be a grave
mistake
to assume that the ECB can deliver lasting economic peace.
It was the biggest
mistake
of my medical career.”
But make no mistake: the institution Powell will now head rules the global financial system.
(Fortunately, of the candidates Trump was considering for the Fed post, Powell is the one least likely to repeat this mistake.)
But the West need not risk making the same
mistake
and accepting the same false choices.
In an already overtaxed country (at least for the 60% of taxpayers who do not or cannot cheat), this was a huge political
mistake.
That may turn out to be a mistake: successes like his are never easy to replicate, not without having proved something first.
Make no mistake: the scourge of Pakistani terrorism emanates more from the country’s Scotch whisky-sipping generals than from the bead-rubbing mullahs.
And make no mistake: the West’s attitude toward Turkey matters.
Expanding NATO into the Baltic States in 2002 – the Alliance’s first enlargement into former Soviet territory – was a catastrophic mistake, which made it almost impossible for a Russian to be both patriotic and pro-Western.
Given Iran’s continued progress with its nuclear program, heeding conservative demands for a return to hostility and antagonism would be a
mistake.
This leads us to the second
mistake.
But, as things stand, a strategy of containment would be a
mistake.
It would thus be a fateful
mistake
for Western powers to abandon the ideas and institutions that delivered prosperity and stability in previous decades.
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