Mistake
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1844 examples of Mistake in a sentence
Make no mistake: Egyptians are committed to completing their impressive revolution, and they will.
But make no mistake: a gene-driven farm would epitomize the industrial approach to agriculture, which has failed the test of sustainability.
It could have either avoided a monumental mistake, as Iraq has now proved to be, or it could have brought the United Nations on board from the outset, ensuring that military action, and the subsequent occupation and reconstruction of the country, would have broad multilateral support.
As we know from decades of Japanese and Swiss experience, selling a low-interest-rate currency simply to chase higher US yields is often a costly
mistake.
And yet, to focus the Democratic agenda on Trump and diversity would be a
mistake.
But the cursed EMU prospect -- a waste of time, a waste of energy, a terrible
mistake
that much is clear today -- forces everybody to put on a demanding show in the monetary stage.
An important trade deal advanced, and no issue was made of the new Abbott government’s embarrassingly fulsome embrace of US leadership in the region, and its rookie
mistake
in describing Japan as “our best friend in Asia” (the right formula in these cases being “We have no better friend than…”).
For Ukraine to push for more, such as by requesting membership in the EU, would be a tactical
mistake.
This was a mistake: high interest rates helped to push their economies into deep recession.
But an attack by either Israel or the US on Iran’s nuclear installations would be a calamitous mistake, or, as Meir Dagan, a former chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service, put it, “the stupidest idea” possible.
It would be a grave
mistake
to think that they represent Europe’s “end of history.”
Congress could easily repeat the
mistake
of privatizing them while failing to eliminate the implicit guarantee.
Enshrining economic-policy fads, as the European Union has done with its central bank’s single-minded focus on inflation, is a
mistake.
Giving racism a voice in Jerusalem’s administration is a
mistake
that must be corrected – ideally before tensions in the city escalate further.
But limiting the significance of the “no” vote to mere political calculation would be a mistake, for it also reflects the importance of the “French malaise” about Europe.
But it is a
mistake
to count too much on hard or soft power alone.
Haldane still believes this will happen; the BoE’s
mistake
was more a matter of “timing” than of logic.
The new millennium did not bring down airplanes or knock out power grids; but no software engineer has confessed that the Y2K scare was a con – or at least a serious
mistake
– that cost the United States alone an estimated $300 billion.
In an increasingly cutthroat media culture – in which falling behind a story is often considered worse than making a
mistake
– serious journalism has largely given way to infotainment and sensationalism.
Today, we know that this was just another
mistake
in an ongoing crisis that has been full of them.
With food riots in dozens of countries, isn’t it time to admit that the whole idea was a giant, if well-intentioned,
mistake?
Those who ignore it, especially by blocking market forces, are making a tragic
mistake.
Abundant evidence from the ex-communist countries indicated that it is
mistake
for government bureaucrats to try to fine-tune the transformation to market economies.
For example, one group, while recognizing that the current tensions increase the risk of a policy accident or mistake, views them as part of a process of posturing and negotiation.
But to do so would be a serious
mistake.
America’s third
mistake
was to overestimate how effective conventional military power would be in dealing with the weak states and networked transnational organizations that characterize international politics, at least in the broader Middle East.
Israel made a similar
mistake
in thinking that it could use its enormous margin of conventional military power to destroy Hezbollah in last summer’s Lebanon War.
Germany made a similar mistake, giving up two goals to South Korea in stoppage time.
In my view, interpreting today’s low inflation as a symptom of temporary supply-side shocks will most likely prove to be a
mistake.
Some consider the Palestinian prisoners’ release a mistake, legally and ethically, and a shocking injustice to the families of their victims.
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