Sentence examples for a damaging mistake from inspiring English sources

It's like being a gambler — you'll force the other side to make either a perfect play or a damaging mistake".

To relinquish such leverage before any of the EU's benchmarks for progress have been met would be a damaging mistake.

It's a damaging mistake, too, given that Obama's eloquence and "authenticity" are so central to his appeal.

This realization is vitally important because it's a damaging mistake to compare the raw reality of your own life with the highly fictionalized, sanitized and "touched-up" version of another's.

The BBC has apologised for the recent leaking of new Doctor Who scripts and footage, blaming it on a "damaging mistake".

Hendrik Hertzberg, who was a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, wrote on his blog at newyorker.com that Mr. Obama's was "not a mortal sin," but rather a "damaging mistake... given that Obama's eloquence and 'authenticity' are so central to his appeal".

The decision to let France and Germany off the hook in 2003 for breaking the eurozone's fiscal pact is judged to have been a hugely damaging mistake that poisoned relations between large and small eurozone members.

Packham said: "In an age when the need for good education and strong community spirit is truly needed, this insensitive, short-sighted and short-termist lunacy should be exposed for what it is - a very serious and damaging mistake".

In probably her most personally damaging mistake throughout a somewhat gaffe-strewn career, the Duchess of York appears to have fallen for the Sunday newspaper's undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood, who specialises in exposés.

Mapplegate, as Apple's badly designed mapping application fiasco is sometimes called, is arguably Cook's most damaging mistake to date.

Not long ago, Magic Johnson told me that he believed pro basketball's most damaging mistake has been to condition fans to think that the Jordan phenomenon could be reinvented, willed to reality, starting in the late 1990's with a young flier out of North Carolina named Carter.