Sentence examples for destructive mistake from inspiring English sources

It seems improbable that Clinton truly meant to suggest that Reconstruction was a destructive mistake, rather than a project systematically destroyed by white Southern domestic terrorism in the post-war years.

The move would be a destructive mistake for both our economy and the world's.

President Obama has an important opportunity to correct this very destructive mistake.

Since then, that war has proven to have been a costly, destructive mistake based on false information.

This leads them toward violently destructive mistakes, as in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya.

Mr. Ancier said he believed ABC was making a potentially self-destructive mistake in replacing so many of its entertainment shows with "Millionaire" specials.

Private industry dumped that as a self-destructive mistake years ago.

Psychoanalytic treatment is based on understanding how the past influences the present as a way of avoiding "self-destructive mistakes".

Consider the self-destructive mistakes drivers make in their behavior, from turning a steering wheel the wrong way on a patch of ice to buying sport-utility vehicles that are less safe than their owners believe.

This plasticity is life-affirming when it's creative, but destructive when we mistake recklessness for courage.

Could it just be that last Saturday proves an epiphany for Billy the kid, the jolt which transforms him into the world's most destructive No8? Everyone makes mistakes; the lessons learned are the key.