The phrase "committed the mistake" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it whenever you want to describe a situation in which someone has made a mistake. For example, "John committed the mistake of not correctly filling out the form, which resulted in a delay in processing the request."
Over the years, Cope kept an elaborate journal of mistakes and misdeeds that Marsh and Powell had committed; the mistakes and errors of the men were put in writing and ensconced in the bottom drawer of Cope's desk.
"Fiscal reform is important," he said, "but we cannot commit the mistake of undertaking it while the economy is not firm and before it is on the path of full-fledged recovery".
However, Owen commits the mistake that many advocates for electoral reform continue to do: he does not tell us what he would replace our current system with, and instead talks vaguely about proportional representation.
In the same way that period films often commit the mistake of showing everyone driving shiny new period cars (as those are the only ones that have survived to the present), science-fiction films often assume that the future, to paraphrase William Gibson, will be "evenly distributed" — that everything, from computers to clothes, will represent a radical break from today.
'If I could turn back time I would change one thing: I would not commit the mistake I committed.
He added: "If I could turn back time, I would change one thing: I would not commit the mistake I committed.
"Abandoning a country as strategically located as Afghanistan will be committing the mistakes of previous world powers… the mission is not finished," Mr Saleh added.
Philip Crowley, a State Department spokesman, committed the classic mistake of a Washington mouthpiece by telling the truth about Private Manning to a small group (including a blogger): that the military's treatment of Private Manning was "ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid".
Mr. Burrell committed the classic mistake of playing London's feuding newspapers against one another before selling his story to a tabloid, The Daily Mirror, for a reported $480,000.
