Sentence examples for hideous mistake from inspiring English sources

With Iraq, this hubris is leading to "a hideous mistake".

But as a principle, ensuring games shouldn't be ruined by a hideous mistake that everyone knows is wrong within seconds is surely right".

It may have been a hideous mistake made by fighters accustomed to firing on anything that appears in the skies above — and equipped with the means to do it.

It may have been a hideous mistake made by fighters accustomed to firing on anything that appears in the skies above and equipped with the means to do it.

After just three days in parliament as a Ukip MP, he has the air of a man who increasingly realises he has made a hideous mistake and can do nothing about it.

Another referendum was just giving everyone the opportunity to have another think about their decision once they had had enough time to realise what a hideous mistake they had made.

Suppose, however improbably, that we could be sure that human reproductive cloning artificially breeding a baby with only one person's genes would never lead to hideous, irrecoverable mistakes.

Sampdoria were outplayed to a barely fathomable degree, and went a goal down, but won at a canter through two hideous defensive mistakes and then, in the second half, a pair of volleys from Vialli and Mancini that were outrageous in their conception and perfect in their technical execution.

Here's the bottom line: If fatalities dropped to zero today -- something we would all celebrate -- the war would still have been a hideous and tragic mistake.

Stripped of her warpaint and her Mae West drawl, she reveals Martha's vulnerability and self-loathing as she says George must be punished for making "the hideous, the hurting, the insulting mistake of loving me".

Other businesses that have expanded abroad and have been forced into "hideous retreats" have made the mistake of trying to copy the same large-scale operations they have in the UK.