Each lists steps to take to repair a mistake, beginning with an apology.
The fear of making a mistake began to outweigh the sense of adventure.
In his book, not admitting a mistake begins with admitting a mistake, then creating an impression of anguished self-scrutiny, which almost immediately dissolves in a shower of equally anguished claims of mitigating circumstances.
And it would all have been utterly misguided, a mistake from beginning to end, misinformed by a fluke of personal experience.
Her Cha Cha wasn't grounded enough, was too jumpy, a mistake many beginning Latin dancers make to accommodate for not having proper hip action.
In courtship he had a history of mistakes, beginning at sixteen with his first girlfriend, for whom he had bought at the local head shop the coolest thing he had then ever seen in his life: a beautifully carved wooden hand with its middle finger sticking up.
Defense Secretary William S. Cohen and Samuel R. Berger, the national security adviser, declined to answer the question tonight, and Mr. Clinton himself said only that it would have been a mistake to begin the bombing campaign during the Islamic holy month, Ramadan, which begins this weekend.
But when an email meant for Rachel accidentally went to Ruben, it wasn't long before an ordinary mistake began to look like an extraordinary stroke of luck.
Because the award of the games to China was a mistake to begin with.
Once a relationship disintegrates, does that mean it was a mistake to begin with?
Others characterize the surge as a success, helping to end a war that was a mistake to begin with.
