Sentence examples for a devastating error from inspiring English sources

This would be a devastating error, but not fraud.

"I deeply regret these families have suffered through such a devastating error.

Short of a complete bravura performance that would have been tough for even the most experienced national politician to turn in — or a devastating error by the mistake-prone Mr. Biden, who instead turned in an impressively sharp performance — there might have been little Ms. Palin could have done to help Mr. McCain.

For instance, Gen. James Cartwright, a retired four-star Marine Corps general who served as commander of the U.S. Strategic Command and vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently co-authored a column in the International New York Times calling on both the United States and Russia to "scrap this obsolete protocol before a devastating error occurs".

It transpires that devastating errors like these were common.

We conclude that, if a steep firing rate function is employed, then minor round-off errors can have a devastating effect on simulations, unless proper error-control schemes are used.

Serena, just like her sister, shows no emotion and takes each point equally whether its a devastating forehand or Amelie's error.

The blunders involved several fundamental mistakes at the company's HomeSide Lending unit, based in Jacksonville, Fla., including, most embarrassingly, a simple but devastating computer error that went unnoticed for two years.

IT IS a devastating prospect.

Then a devastating tsunami followed.

It was a devastating dismissal.