Sentence examples for chief mistake from inspiring English sources

He laughs, remembering his chief mistake.

But the Trump administration ought not to repeat Kerry's chief mistake, which was to negotiate with Russia without leverage.

For many Palestinian officials, Mr. Abbas's chief mistake was to try to chart a course different from Mr. Arafat's, which is exactly what Israel and the United States want the prime minister to do.

It is hard to see how this could have been caused by universally poor governance across so many different systems.The chief mistake of the past 15 years was the granting of too many share options to too many people on terms that were too generous.

Rather tantalizingly, he has stated that Obama's chief mistake was to have demobilized his followers after the 2008 election.

"We as a society are cleaning up our Vietnam experience to make it more palatable". That, he fears, may blur what he considers the chief mistake of the conflict--getting involved militarily in a country where U.S. interests were not paramount.

The chief mistakes are putting in too much of the filling and making this too elaborate.

This time, though, they are facing George Bush's son, who came away convinced that his father's chief political mistake was reneging on his pledge -- and so is unlikely to make the same move.

That does not make it right, but unlike Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Clinton's chief political mistake was lying under oath about his extramarital activities, which is what precipitated the effort to impeach him.

If a top officer feels strongly that his commander in chief is mistaken, he can resign and take his case to the public as a private citizen.

In one widely publicized episode, the former Stasi chief apparently mistook the judge hearing his case for a prison barber.