Sentence examples for compound mistake from inspiring English sources

The need for some novel construction is signaled by the impossibility of assembling the elements in the usual (literal) way". And that is a compound mistake.

He'd have a bunch of really good plays, and then he'd have a run of compound mistakes.

The White House declared that the United Nations Security Council's failure to act against Iraq would not only compound mistakes of the 1990's but would encourage North Korea and Iran as they race to build nuclear arsenals.

The Beast's competitors often seem to specialize, in fact, in compounding mistakes, because the overwhelming source of their information is aggregation, that online form, adapted from television news, of merely rewriting, in house style, stories from other news outlets.

Midway was not only the Allies' first clear major victory against the Japanese, it significantly reduced the offensive capability of Japan's carrier forces, but did not change their offensive mindset for several crucial months in which they compounded mistakes by moving ahead with brash, even brazen decisions, such as the attempt to assault Port Moresby over the Kokoda trail.

"They stressed to me that I will make mistakes but, when made, never, never compound a mistake by sitting silent and failing to own up to the error".

To compound my mistake, I also cracked the paint.

But rushing to action now would compound that mistake.

Don't compound your mistake by not negotiating.

We compound the mistake by draping a veil of innocence over the transaction.

The idea that I would compound a mistake by continuing to publish the piece online is absurd.