The BBC has apologised for the recent leaking of new Doctor Who scripts and footage, blaming it on a "damaging mistake".
Hendrik Hertzberg, who was a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, wrote on his blog at newyorker.com that Mr. Obama's was "not a mortal sin," but rather a "damaging mistake... given that Obama's eloquence and 'authenticity' are so central to his appeal".
In a counter-insurgency manual that Mattis wrote with David Petraeus, he noted, "The more force applied, the greater the chance of collateral damage and mistakes.
But there's going to be excesses, collateral damage, disastrous mistakes.
Even when, as in Iraq, a U.S. invasion results in massive collateral damage and mistakes are made, they are honest ones taken with the best of intentions to bring freedom and democracy to peoples under tyranny.
Avanesov et al. found that the number of metabolites increased over time, suggesting that damage or mistakes in molecular synthesis increased with age.
Because civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan have died as a result of collateral damage or mistaken identities, Predators have generated international opposition and prompted accusations of war crimes.
As Mrs Thatcher's key economic adviser, John Hoskyns, later wrote, the government had "accidentally engineered" a major recession and "done the economy a great deal of damage by mistake".
His mistakes damage not just his reputation, but Washington's as well.
That does not include the cost of repairing the damage from any mistakes.
