Sentence examples for central mistake from inspiring English sources

At the same time, a separate hearing in Congress revealed how far Mr. Obama has gone to avoid what he sees as Mr. Bush's central mistake.

In "You Are Not a Gadget," Jaron Lanier writes, "The central mistake of recent digital culture is to chop up a network of individuals so finely that you end up with a mush.

A central mistake of the Muslim Brotherhood government of President Mohamed Morsi was that it tried to act as though it had inherited the Mubarak mantle of patronage and repression – but with its own beneficiaries and victims.

Daniels: Yes, I think that was a central policy mistake.

The other potential cause of a sell-off in markets is through a central bank mistake.

Central bankers' mistake then was to hold monetary policy too loose, so that higher oil prices quickly fed into other prices.

If central bankers mistake a temporary rise in uncertainty for a permanent shock, they may, say, cut interest rates by more than they need to, with inflationary results.

In America the overall result has been to widen the current-account deficit.The central banks' mistake has been compounded by the emerging economies' refusal to allow their exchange rates to rise, piling up foreign-exchange reserves instead.

Vehemently focused on preventing deflation, the Federal Reserve, Bush's silent partner, is making the classic central banking mistake of fighting the last war.

Morris's mistaken claim about Sontag would be little more than a fact-checker's quibble, except that it illuminates a central fault line in his work.

Economists still disagree over whether these low rates were the result of central bankers' mistakes or broader shifts in the world economy.