Sentence examples for blunder was committed from inspiring English sources

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Possibly the most egregious blunder was committed by the casino mogul Steve Wynn, who elbowed Picasso's 1932 masterpiece Le Rêve.

Miroff, a political science professor at the State University of New York at Albany, reminds us gently that the real blunder was committed by the 47 million voters who re-elected Richard Nixon in a 49-state landslide.

The Wisden editor, Sydney Pardon, commented: "A fatal blunder was committed in leaving out Buckenham a blunder for which it was generally understood that MacLaren was responsible.

It wasn't the first time a major blunder was committed at Maspero, the iconic, dilapidated TV building on the street by the same name overlooking the Nile in Cairo housing the state-run broadcast operation.

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The building-standards fiasco was one reason for the reduction in the government's growth forecast for the fiscal year to the end of March, from 2.1% to 1.3%.These costly blunders were committed even before July's elections divided the Diet; with the current political chaos, the risks of things going wrong is still higher.

The tragedy lies in the waste of our experience, in the waiting while all the old blunders are committed over again".

Napoleon's fatal blunder, I suggest, was committed before the campaign started, when he insisted on leaving Davout, the best of his marshals, behind in Paris as minister of war.

Whenever a major blunder has been committed, the temptation is to point the finger of blame at the individual ministers concerned.

This multivolume set would make the collected works of James Michener look like Cliff Notes, considering the number of business blunders that are committed daily.

Be committed.

Best Buy is committing a "huge strategic blunder" in thinking their service is any good, Downes told me when he came into our San Francisco studio last week.

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