Mistake
in sentence
1844 examples of Mistake in a sentence
Was it an honest
mistake?
But it would be a
mistake
to accept the Conservative narrative as the last word.
That would be a serious
mistake.
So, for Putin, getting caught cheating is a mistake, but nothing to be ashamed of.
I believe that this trend is a serious
mistake
which, quite myopically, overlooks the potential for mistakes in regulation.
But make no mistake: it has been a difficult road.
History – from post-revolutionary France to modern Thailand – has repeatedly shown that it is a
mistake
to write off the old establishment.
All of us tend to make the same
mistake
repeatedly: we think at the beginning of a revolution that freedom and justice have prevailed over dictatorship and cruelty.
All of them may soon face a realization like that of Joseph Fouché, Napoleon’s police chief, after the abduction and sham trial of the Duke of Enghien: “It was worse than a crime; it was a mistake.”
There is a role for both, depending on the context, but we should avoid the common
mistake
of automatically thinking that the transformational landscape architect is a better leader than the careful gardener.
Those of us who believe that invading Iraq was a mistake, and that Bush is guilty of hubris in his failure to plan adequately for the aftermath, face a dilemma: if America withdraws too precipitously, it may compound these mistakes.
Make no mistake: this problem was made in America, and that is where it will have to be solved.
Abe must not make the same
mistake.
Censuring Ireland, however, is a dangerous mistake, both on the merits and from a methodological point of view.
Censuring Ireland is also a grave
mistake
from a methodological point of view; indeed, this is perhaps the gravest aspect of the case.
Moreover, Putin has never made a
mistake
about the loyalty of the people he promotes.
But make no mistake: Putin’s popularity ratings relied not on his vigor, humor, or mystique, but on salaries and credits that Russians had never enjoyed before.
Russia lost, after its goalkeeper made a silly
mistake
and its best player was ejected for hitting an opponent.
It’s a
mistake.
Adopting the euro was a
mistake.
Though China is no colonizer, it would be a
mistake
to assume that its growing global footprint is purely benign.
Waiting until the downturn occurs to plan this coordinated response would be a
mistake.
Although it could stabilize the debt/GDP ratio, the sequester would be a mistake: it fails to distinguish among spending priorities, would undermine essential programs, and would mean another significant dent in growth this year.
Though Congress must guard against repeating its disastrous
mistake
in 2003, when it supported the war in Iraq, the commitment to promote human rights that the US made following September 11, 1973, seems a more appropriate standard for weighing Obama’s proposal for US military action in Syria.
Sometimes errors are not discovered until later, when they are working papers, as with Reinhart and Rogoff, or after publication, as with Nobel laureate Ken Arrow, who had to correct a
mistake
in the proof of his famous impossibility theorem.
In fact, including this provision was a serious mistake, and needs to be corrected with new legislation.
That
mistake
was made by the Japanese, who tried, unsuccessfully, to muddle through, only to end up with 18 years of stagnation.
Greater regulation would be a mistake, the report argues, because the global economy’s best defense against systemic risk is the exercise of common sense and “due diligence” by each and every person who invests or interacts with hedge funds.
This could be a grave
mistake.
Politically, it would be a big
mistake
for Germany to exit the euro, because that would reinstate the Rhine as the border between France and Germany.
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