Sentence examples for calamitous mistake from inspiring English sources
If so, it was a calamitous mistake.
That calamitous mistake led to a civil war costing perhaps 100,000 lives.
It proved to be a calamitous mistake not to use an autocue.
Almost everyone now agrees the 1982 war was a calamitous mistake, not just because the invasion was repelled, but because it was initiated by a dictatorship.
But over time attitudes do change and therefore the Conservative party has to pursue these things over the long term consistently.Bagehot: What's your biggest political regret?WH: I don't think I made any calamitous mistake on any issue.
Roberto Martínez's 10 men responded valiantly to the calamitous mistake that resulted in Howard's dismissal and Ki Sung-yueng's match-winning penalty but could find no way past Mannone.
Nobody in the administration should sleep easy over its ethical responsibility for calamitous mistakes.
Robots may lack compassion, but they also lack the emotions that lead to calamitous mistakes, atrocities and genocides: vengefulness, panic, tribal animosity.
Given the recent lessons of the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war, it seems barely conceivable that we could be unwittingly repeating the calamitous mistakes of Iraq.
An angry Mr Bremer released two letters to the New York Times yesterday to reject Mr Bush's comments that the official had acted on his own accord in committing one of the most calamitous mistakes of the Iraq war.
History is replete with brilliant people who made calamitous mistakes.Some of the finest minds on Wall Street and in academia were behind Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), a hedge fund that collapsed in 1998, after following a strategy that believed the market was underpricing illiquid assets and overpricing liquid ones, using squillions of borrowed money.
