The company confessed to the error last month when it told the stock market that it had erroneously stated that performance criteria linked to total shareholder return, a measure of shareholder performance, were linked to awards of shares intended to compensate the chief executive for €775,000 forfeited when he left PPR.
The advertising agency and the tobacco company were delighted by the unpaid publicity and were only too happy to confess to the error in the coda, "What do you want, good grammar or good taste?" Like many usage controversies, the brouhaha over "like a cigarette should" is a product of grammatical ineptitude and historical ignorance.
For example, many of us, to our chagrin, have had to confess committing the error of the gamblers fallacy in our own betting on games or on the events of life.
After you've confessed your mistake, and fixed it, concentrate on avoiding similar errors in the future.
In confessing error, the Government seemed to concede that reversal was appropriate without any specific showing of prejudice.
Justice Elena Kagan asked the lawyer if the office had considered confessing error in the case, rather than fighting the defendant's appeal.
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.
She was convinced that Dugan was the murderer and that Burris's office should "confess error" — the legal term used by a prosecutor to acknowledge a miscarriage of justice.
After studying the initial positions of the Justice Department's attorneys, Patel said she viewed its position as "tantamount to confessing an error".
The next morning the Times confessed its error, explaining that it had been hoodwinked by an unknown party, who, posing as Mme.
