Sentence examples for guilty of errors from inspiring English sources

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What could be finer, I thought, than to be a neurosurgeon?" Yet like all surgeons, Marsh is guilty of errors, and it is the human failure more than the scientific one that pains him; he quails at the sight of patients he feels he could and should have served better.

His predecessor may have been guilty of errors in both strategy and tactics: he tried to take lessons that he had learned as boss of the Apple stores and apply them rigidly to J.C. Penney, a quite different sort of retailer, and he refused to test his ideas or listen to objections.

A marginal forward pass from Heathcote denied Dougie Fife the opportunity to go over on right and Anthony Foley's Munster were guilty of errors of their own throughout a frustrating first half for the home crowd.

The Guardian: "Stoke were guilty of errors when both goals went in, the first seeing Philipp Wollscheid slip as Deeney shaped to shoot, and for the second Ighalo fed Abdi, having dispossessed Marc Wilson, who had come on early for the injured Geoff Cameron". Stoke Sentinel: "Oh dear!

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Sometimes those involved in government are guilty of "error, incompetence, misbehaviour, dereliction of duty, even dishonesty and malpractice".

There were reports at the weekend, sourced to the Foreign Office, suggesting that the inquiry would examine only one case – that of Binyam Mohamed – and that Cameron had already concluded that the country's intelligence agencies were guilty only of errors of omission, not commission.

Netanyahu is guilty of grave errors of presumption.

The force was found guilty of catastrophic errors, but the commissioner remained in place.

Sure, all of us have been guilty of these errors at one point or another, but then again, we have never asked to be prime minister.

In a way it summed up their performance: hugely committed defensively but guilty of little errors which ceded possession too easily.

The Minister of the Interior, M. Roger Frey, informed all France's prefects that just before the Assumption weekend, that the Allier System of immediate suspension of drivers "guilty of grave errors" would continue everywhere.

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