Sentence examples for confessing an error. from inspiring English sources

After studying the initial positions of the Justice Department's attorneys, Patel said she viewed its position as "tantamount to confessing an error".

Such was the strength of internal and external feeling that the Times, along with its News Corp stablemate, had ignored the story that 96 people were unlawfully killed, that it put out a statement confessing to an error rather than a conspiracy.

Mr. Reems alone (represented by Alan Dershowitz) won exoneration after Mr. Bork unexpectedly confessed a government error: The actor had been convicted under a stricter 1973 high court definition of obscenity that had not yet been the law of the land at the time of the alleged offense.

Please help by confessing your error and, in the future, being more careful". Mr. Hall said he was not surprised at the experts' insistence that the probability was 1 out of 2. "That's the same assumption contestants would make on the show after I showed them there was nothing behind one door," he said.

Even stalwart defenders of laissez faire capitalism were confessing the error of their deregulatory ways.

But as the debate progressed, Trump — sometimes walking into traps laid by his exquisitely prepared opponent — displayed precisely the character traits that make him an unacceptable option even for many members of his own party: a hypersensitivity to criticism, a streak of viciousness, an inability to confess error and a willful ignorance about the issues he would have to deal with as president.

Even fastidious grandmothers now say, when confessing error, that they "screwed up"; "screwed" has also become a routine term for being victimized.

"Did your office ever consider just confessing error in this case?" she asked.

Enron executives are not the only ones who dislike confessing error.

2018, 56 L.Ed.2d 619781978), decided just last Term, the Court was willing to go beyond confessing error in previous dicta.

In confessing error, the Government seemed to concede that reversal was appropriate without any specific showing of prejudice.