Sentence examples similar to blunder- from inspiring English sources

A more recent account of government failures agrees, calling it "the blunder to end all blunders".

For connoisseurs of such cock-ups, the misattribution will perhaps be most reminiscent of East Germany's 1956 blunder in issuing a Robert Schumann stamp with a score in the background that happened to be by Schubert.

The Celtic striker Leigh Griffiths was baffled by the blunder he claims cost his side a place in the Scottish Cup final.

The blunder in effect killed off his already faltering campaign.

By giving in to an alliance of the right and the rich, George Osborne has made a basic blunder that sends a missile into six years of Tory modernisation.

The British prime minister compounded the blunder with a "Sieg heil" to the German dictator and returned to Britain declaring peace in our time.

He also accused ministers of recently backtracking on a pledge to require hospitals to always tell a patient or relatives when a blunder occurs, which could let mistakes be covered up.

A serious blunder by unions, managements or politicians could make an election impact.

Cameron's blunder (if that is what it was) makes it easier, not harder for such would-be plotters.

At least one local official, however, blamed Nigeria, putting the death toll at 37. "At first we thought it was a blunder by Chad or Niger's army, but now we suspect the Nigerian army is responsible," said an elected official from Bosso in Niger, which is about six miles from Abadam.

But for all the chancellor's gung-ho bravura, he was galloping backwards in full retreat from his autumn statement blunder revealing he would take the state back to the 1930s – austerity beyond anything ever tried.