Sentence examples for a basic mistake from inspiring English sources

"They've been letting taxes determine their strategy, and that's a basic mistake.

If you took that line seriously, John, you are making a basic mistake in comprehension.

Making a "pivot" to East Asia the core of its foreign policy was a basic mistake, he argues.

"If you exhaust all your synonyms, you are making a basic mistake in style," says John Orford.

Indeed, in his later writings he seemed on the point of saying that a basic mistake might have been made somewhere along the line.

Independent experts said they were surprised that Boeing's inspectors had not caught such a basic mistake when the plane was built in the mid-1990s.

And after all the wrangling, drama and potential of the past six years, that's a soberingly basic mistake.

In the end it was a sad, basic mistake in the field which proved the turning point.

Instead, the anger was focused on Israel, which responded by ratcheting up its campaign step by step.But an even more basic mistake may have been to mismanage expectations.

It's the same basic mistake, but it was a lot bigger and a lot more tragic".

It's pretty unusual for a company of this size to make such a basic security mistake, but that's just another reason for users to take password protection into their own hands.