Sentence examples similar to a one mistake from inspiring English sources

(The Oudtshoorn of his youth was, Nixon remarks, in one of the nicely telling phrases that punctuate his book, "a one-mistake town," a "purgatorial" community where "your destiny could be sealed by gossip about a glance").

We're all just here, caught up in this newfound all-consuming love, trying to figure it out one day at a time, one mistake at a time, one too-expensive Target trip at a time.

Just a couple of mistakes, one mistake on offense and one mistake on defense, and that's the game".

As a result, one mistake in hard-core mode can end weeks or months of effort.

If contestants made even one mistake on a line, they would lose all the points for that line.

One mistake on a document might set you back for months.

Make one mistake as a company on a road change, and it could cause serious problems or danger for someone.

The pretext for the OCE report was that Stark made an electronic filing of a tax application, with one mistake, in February 2009.

Death, we are reminded, is always one mistake away — a shoelace caught in a net, a skiff overloaded with salmon.

With a poacher like Mike McGee, one mistake in the back could cost you valuable points.

"One mistake a lot of start-ups make with the encouragement of venture capitalists is to hire the whole management team upfront," said Mr. Bechtolsheim.