Sentence examples for committed a basic from inspiring English sources
Favre had committed a basic sin in football: nothing is free.
Although a lifelong New Yorker, Mr. Steinhauser had committed a basic error of wintertime driving: parking in front of a bus stop.
The state's brief called the appeals decision "a poor analysis of misstated facts" and said the court "committed a basic and fundamental critical error" in ignoring what was "prudent and cautious" in the state's approach to protecting the children.
During his Mideast visit, Senator John McCain — running for President as the ranking mastermind of military security issues — committed a basic error in describing the enemy forces at work in Iraq.
But critics accuse the Americans of committing a basic psychological error: "mirror imaging" — judging the other guys by where you stand and not by where they stand.
Actually, as Miles Kimball points out, he's committing a basic microeconomic fallacy — a fallacy you usually identify with Econ 101 freshmen early in the semester (and as it happens the same fallacy committed by Rajan).
But critics accuse the Americans of committing a basic psychological error: "mirror-imaging" — judging the other guy by where you stand in the arc of development and not by where he stands.
Your discussion of the apparently long-observed correlation between poetry and morbidity (Arts & Ideas, April 24) commits a basic fallacy by assuming that the former must somehow be causing the latter.
Agentialism is committed to a basic division between two classes of attitudes: avowable, reasons-sensitive attitudes, and reasons-insensitive attitudes.
Under our Constitution's guarantee of due process, a person accused of committing a crime is vouchsafed basic minimal rights.
"It is gutting and disappointing, but it has been a privilage to be involved". The group had won the backing of more than 1000 fans and community members who committed to paying a basic entry price of £10 per month to bid for the 52% stake in the club that is currently up for sale.
