Sentence examples for appalling error from inspiring English sources

Part of United's strategy on Thursday was to persuade him he was about to make an appalling error.

Before he was sentenced, Mr. Bennett said he had the best of intentions when he made an "unacceptable and appalling error" in handling Refco's finances.

Even in the London of July 2005, on high alert after failed suicide bomb attacks, could such an appalling error be lawful?

Mr Miliband said the prime minister had "serious questions" to answer about this decision, which he called an "appalling error of judgement".

This is an appalling error, which would require all our attention.

Epstein was horrified, realising he had made an appalling error by accepting such a small percentage, and decided he could never tell The Beatles.

Some appalling errors, missed tackles by the score, and their midfield had the substance of rice paper.

Jeff Evans, writing in the The Penguin TV Companion, observed that "Slatt is certainly keen, but regrettably he is also unbalanced, tactless, clumsy, snobby, sarcastic, at times pointlessly aggressive and always prone to appalling errors of judgment (an academic version of Basil Fawlty, it was widely noted)".

Glossing over the moderate liberals' appalling political errors, the standard account traces the Terror to Robespierre's beliefs: thus emerges the idea that radical democracy, equality and incorruptibility breed violence.

George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, said: "Tax credits are in Gordon Brown's empire and he cannot blame anyone else for the appalling levels of error and fraud.

Taken together, their cases reveal an appalling catalogue of errors made by the criminal justice system.