Sentence examples for devastating error from inspiring English sources

This would be a devastating error, but not fraud.

"I deeply regret these families have suffered through such a devastating error.

Short of a complete bravura performance that would have been tough for even the most experienced national politician to turn in — or a devastating error by the mistake-prone Mr. Biden, who instead turned in an impressively sharp performance — there might have been little Ms. Palin could have done to help Mr. McCain.

This is a common yet potentially devastating error.

For instance, Gen. James Cartwright, a retired four-star Marine Corps general who served as commander of the U.S. Strategic Command and vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently co-authored a column in the International New York Times calling on both the United States and Russia to "scrap this obsolete protocol before a devastating error occurs".

The Tigers were weakened by several factors: a global war on terror that pinched its ability to raise money overseas; a split in their ranks; and what, in hindsight, seem to have been devastating strategic errors on Mr. Prabhakaran's part, including helping to lift Mahinda Rajapaksa to an election victory.

Two people I spoke to at the network, which featured a lot of good work and tireless reporting when it wasn't getting it wrong, called the error "devastating".

The trials are promising, the errors devastating.

Crowther's early second-half try on his home debut suggested Wakefield would make inroads into the deficit, but a mixture of errors and devastating attack saw them blown away as the game progressed.

In something of a comedy of errors, the devastating Poizner ad devised by now Romney strategist Stevens ran for less than a week.

Evening Standard editor Sarah Sands said she was "devastated" by the error, in which an image of the newspaper's front page was published via a tweet on the micro-blogging site.