Sentence examples for a collective mistake from inspiring English sources

it is much harder to get the system to insure itself against a collective mistake.

It was three months later — around late July — that I began digging and discovered the depth of our collective mistake.

Consolidation When an industry is consolidated in the hands of a few decision makers, groupthink will prevail and collective mistakes will be made.

"There were too many collective mistakes that were made," Mangini said of Satruday's game.

Nobody learns from our collective mistakes.

That said, this column is about learning from the collective mistakes of your predecessors, so, if you can, do it in advance.

As a result of such open-access daily deliberations for quorum formation, egalitarian team synergy becomes uniquely rich in possibilities for both (a) progresses in synergistic coordination, effectiveness, and solidarity but also (b) regresses and stagnations because of collective mistakes, fruitless oppositions, conflicts, and scissions.

A collective doubt helps avoid such mistakes.

Philip Zelikow, who was State Department counselor for Condi Rice and executive director of the 9/11 Commission, testified last week before Congress that torture was "a collective failure and it was a mistake," perhaps "a disaster".

And, with a collective age (other than Akers and Vick) of about 12, they're prone to rookie mistakes.

It was a collective effort.