When England won by an innings and 129 runs at Trent Bridge, Neville Cardus decided "a mistake was made by those authorities who decided the time was now ripe for Test matches between England and Pakistan".
When courts have decided a mistake is reasonable, they've typically concluded that the statute was ambiguous, subject to multiple interpretations, or that the law had yet to be interpreted by appellate judges, leaving police with but limited guidance.
It was quiet enough that he could hear the bartender shaking one of the artisanal cocktails whose prices he was resolved not to complain about aloud, and he immediately saw Josh, whose face was at this point mainly beard, and Mary, who was wearing a hat, a cloche he'd already decided was a mistake, in a corner booth across the room.
"Because of the conditions, it looked like it could possibly be decided by a mistake.
He went on to support the invasion of Iraq - though he has since decided it was a mistake.
But the truth is, no one really wants to see something as big as the world cup decided on such a mistake.
By 2004, the agency decided it was a mistake to keep its portfolio so heavily in stocks, because they tended to lose value just when stock-laden corporate pension funds were themselves likeliest to fail — which was precisely when the insurer most needed the money.
If the state does decide it made a mistake in waiving its rights to intervene, there is a higher likelihood the merger will be derailed.
"The Supreme Court of Florida would have to decide it made a mistake," Mr. Neustadt said, in the deadline it set for certifying the election, "and that seems unlikely.
If a university decides it made a mistake giving a philosophy professor tenure (a status that guarantees the professor that, absent exigent circumstances, he or she cannot be fired) the university that wants to rid itself of the professor rarely offers him or her millions of dollars to relinquish the privileges given the professor when tenure was awarded.
In the end, Goldberg decided, the mistake of his launch announcement had been an "audience problem": he'd aimed the announcement at "venture investors and advertising executives," he said, but "it reached an audience of writers" — a group with different sensibilities.
