Sentence examples for extraordinary mistake from inspiring English sources

The C.I.A. officer was the wrong man, a victim of what officials describe as an extraordinary mistake.

But the profession has made an extraordinary mistake in failing to appreciate that well-meaning economists face daunting ethical challenges in their work.The case for professional economic ethics is simple.

What was surprising, because of an extraordinary mistake by Egyptian television, was that Mr. Bush would be caught unawares on camera today speaking about the Middle East with more bluntness, emotion and religious fervor than had been heard before.

"Absent some extraordinary mistake -- Reagan blowing the first debate in '84 or Ford giving away Eastern Europe in '76 -- debates generally tend to reinforce the partisans," Mr. Rove said.

It's not the first time the United States has been on the verge of making an extraordinary mistake.

If you ask me, there isn't much suspense in this year's election: barring some extraordinary mistakes, Mr. Obama will win.

They also attacked the MoD for the "extraordinary mistakes" in the design of Type 45 destroyers after it emerged they had faulty engines.

Jennifer Granick, an attorney and the director for civil liberties at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford law school, writing after Swartz's death, said that ordinary prosecutorial tactics, such as the "horse-trading" that is plea-bargaining, become "extraordinary mistakes when the case is bogus or overcharged".

That an opera company or a school could make this mistake seems extraordinary.

He recognizes, however, that Eisenhower possessed an extraordinary capacity for recognizing mistakes, learning from them and growing.

One of Ogata's top officers at the time said so more directly, when he summed up the humanitarian experience of the Hutu Power-controlled border camps and their aftermath with the extraordinary Nixonian formulation "Yes, mistakes were made, but we are not responsible".