Sentence examples for longstanding mistake from inspiring English sources

For an excellent presentation of Ockham's theory of intuitive and abstractive cognition - with the convincing correction of a longstanding mistake about it - see Karger [1999].

"Unfortunately, the same is true for Mr. Hevesi's longstanding history of mistakes and misstatements concerning the budget.

Then in 2008, Patricia Lykos, a former judge and police officer, was elected district attorney, and one of her first acts was to reverse the office's longstanding reluctance to admit mistakes.

It is also an anthology of the director's longstanding preoccupations -- with voyeurism, mistaken identity, paranoia and sexual obsession.

Within a year, he had declared his devotion to Mickey Mantle and the rest in the longstanding baseball rivalry, saying, "Make no mistake about it: I'm a Yankee fan".

Such glaring mistakes have fueled another longstanding tradition: distrust of the art establishment, much of it class based, by those outside the establishment's tight circle.

They have the chance to remedy past mistakes as well as fulfil longstanding objectives aimed at protecting the Kurdish people from external threats and, further down the line, establishing an independent Kurdish state.

When House Republicans did indeed shut down part of the government, their poll ratings collapsed (see chart) and they had to back down.That mistake was a result of a longstanding weakness.

The gates started to swing open in the 1960s, when courts in California allowed disgruntled beneficiaries to sue lawyers for making mistakes in a will, overriding the longstanding rule against suits by nonclients (perhaps because in this case the client was underground).

The board acknowledged they made a mistake and chose to revert to our longstanding conduct policy requiring sexual abstinence for all single employees and faithfulness within the Biblical covenant of marriage between a man and a woman.

"The board acknowledged they made a mistake and chose to revert to our longstanding conduct policy requiring sexual abstinence for all single employees and faithfulness within the Biblical covenant of marriage between a man and a woman," said a statement signed World Vision President Richard Stearns and Jim Beré, Chairman of the World Vision U.S. Board.