Sentence examples for mistake of accepting from inspiring English sources
He added: "I made the mistake of accepting a lunch invitation with two undercover journalists who posed as consultants working for a leading edge solar technology development company.
He is determined not to repeat Yasser Arafat's lamentable mistake of accepting peace with Israel while taking on trust the amount of land to be given back.Israelis, for their part, feel no goodwill towards Syria: Mr Assad and his acid-tongued foreign minister, Farouk Sharaa, have seen to that.
Then Gingrich says he made the mistake of accepting Gregory's premise.
The Obama administration made the mistake of accepting responsibility for the crisis.
He said, 'Should Republicans pass an unpopular plan?' And I made the mistake of accepting his premise.
Of course, managers can make the opposite mistake of accepting excuses from the employee who doesn't meet job expectations.
When challenged about the mistake, instead of accepting the fact (for which he would have received no more than a telling-off), he falsely blamed the news agency and then tried to back up his version of events by entering the room containing the main frame computer in order to alter the original copy.
Mr. Burris, a Democratic veteran who should know better, made the mistake of gratefully accepting — as if anything having to do with Mr. Blagojevich were not lethally tainted.
We certainly do not want to make the mistake of uncritically accepting the views of Carlyles, of whom Rupert Christiansen writes that "however enraged they were with each other there was always the prospect of laughing together at somebody else later" (2002).
The report notes instances in which "accountability recommendations" were overruled by higher-ups, in one case because the director had said that he "believes the scale tips decisively in favor of accepting mistakes".
We made the mistake on the first day of accepting second helpings of the fantastic meat-free lasagne, only to realise it was just a starter.
