Sentence examples for mistake exactly from inspiring English sources

Can one say that a cathedral is a mistake, exactly?

"The referee made a mistake," he says, "well, not a mistake, exactly.

A 7-0 defeat at Chelsea immediately after Keane's departure has been held up by some as evidence of the board having made a mistake; exactly the opposite argument could quite easily be made.

These technicians disabled the reactor's emergency-cooling system — not a mistake, exactly, since the system would otherwise have overridden the test, but also not a maneuver to be left in inexperienced hands.

Which is, make no mistake, exactly the hope of the carriers throwing their weight and influence behind this alternative open platform.

The skeptics might be guilty of what, from Aristotle's perspective, would be a mistake of exactly this kind.

On the one hand, they say, he is deeply mindful of the mistakes made exactly a decade ago in Iraq; for that reason, they say, he is insisting on what the White House called on Thursday "credible and corroborated facts".

These mistakes are exactly why the American people think I am more interested in Wall Street than Main Street.

Having written a long piece about the pitfalls of economic forecasting, I am hardly going to make the mistake of predicting exactly when the recession will end.

He said that she was simply mistaken about the price she negotiated — that it was $695 more than she maintains — and he contended that this mistake was not exactly innocent.

"If some poor schlep brings something through by mistake, that's exactly the wrong thing we should be worried about," said Joshua Schank, the president of the Eno Transportation Foundation, which focuses on transportation policy.