Mistake
in sentence
1844 examples of Mistake in a sentence
The political costs for the ECB of making this type of
mistake
could be exorbitant.
Merkel’s greatest
mistake
in this election was to rely on the same defensive strategy that she used in the last two elections, when she won resoundingly.
“Every important
mistake
I’ve made in my life, I’ve made because I was too tired,” he once said.
Vajpayee’s blunder compounded Nehru’s 1954
mistake
in implicitly accepting, in the Panchsheel Treaty, China’s annexation of Tibet, without securing (or even seeking) recognition of the then-existing Indo-Tibetan border.
Britain should not make the same
mistake
twice.
It would be a
mistake
to blame knowledge managers, or, for that matter, neo-liberal ideology, for this instrumental view of universities as "service providers."
But it is a
mistake
to confuse primacy with empire.
By adopting an aggressive, revisionist stance, Putin has made a historic and strategic
mistake.
Japan has made this
mistake
before.
A similar
mistake
is made in assessing China’s debts, about which the world is most concerned.
This is why it is a
mistake
for cynics to shrug off Trump’s rhetoric as simply one of the things politicians do.
In a low-growth environment, in particular, developing countries cannot afford to make the same
mistake.
The EU also bears part of the responsibility for this outcome: the failure to clean up bank balance sheets prior to the fiscal consolidation was a collective
mistake.
This would be an understandable mistake, but a
mistake
nevertheless.
The message to EU institutions is clear: It may have been a
mistake
to give you this task, but the decision was made, so your role now is to make the euro work.
Thus Milosevic was allowed to defend himself – a huge
mistake
in terms of the trial’s length and efficiency.
It would be a mistake, however, to view the vote in Greece as a straightforward victory for democracy – despite what the country’s prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, and his supporters like to claim.
Treating housing mortgages as if they were US Treasury bonds was a
mistake
in 2008 and it is a
mistake
today.
Although Schmitt is notorious for joining the Nazi Party in 1933, it would be a
mistake
to dismiss him for that reason alone.
In addition to its growing political and natural-resource challenges, Asia has made the
mistake
of overemphasizing GDP growth to the exclusion of other indices of development.
So make no
mistake.
Continuing to maintain that stance would be a
mistake.
If history is any guide, the consequences of this
mistake
could extend far beyond the economy.
Japan made a similar
mistake
when its property bubble burst in 1990.
But it would be a
mistake
to limit our concern solely to Islamic terrorists, for that would ignore the way that technology is putting into the hands of deviant groups and individuals' destructive capabilities that were once limited primarily to governments and armies.
That is why critics argue that Bush's policy in Iraq was a
mistake.
But the real S&P 500 less than doubled, because investors apparently were unwilling to repeat their
mistake
in the years leading to 2000, when they overreacted to rapid earnings growth.
Californian voters' first
mistake
is thus what may be called "the lure of the immediate"--none too surprising in a state where instant gratification is supposedly a core value.
It would be a
mistake
of historic proportions to delay it.
Make no mistake: judging by the track record of its establishment pundits, the rich world needs some lessons.
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