Sentence examples for mistake of admitting from inspiring English sources

Recalling the days before the legalisation of betting offices, Done once said that when working as a teenager for his father, also a bookmaker, he had made the mistake of admitting to feeling sorry for the losing punters.

A polemical morality tale for the age of MTV's "Skins," this defiantly unromantic drama focuses on the toxic friendship between Lexi (Satomi Blair), a Dorito-crunching exemplar of our casually cruel hook-up culture, and her gentler friend Jessica (Nicky Schmidlein), who makes the mistake of admitting to some tender feelings toward a boy, Darren Ronn Washington).

Because of some weird hate mail after a TV appearance — I made the mistake of admitting to Sean Hannity that I voted for Barack Obama — I decided not to publicly support either candidate, even backing out of a fund-raiser Chris and I were hosting together.

"I believe a person made a mistake, and instead of admitting it they were prepared to send me to jail," Shirley McKie said after she was acquitted of perjury.

"I believe a person made a mistake, and instead of admitting it they were prepared to send me to jail,'' Shirley McKie said after she was acquitted of perjury.

Pietersen does not make the mistake of not admitting to his mistakes.

The psychological hardship of admitting a mistake?

I will instead spend the weekend trying to explain to my kids the value of admitting a mistake and moving on".

With an ego that big, the idea of admitting a mistake isn't really on the table, especially after the way he went all-in and crowned himself Birther King, so the only path forward was to double-down, which he dutifully did in an interview with The Daily Beast.

Even though you have done the hard work of admitting your mistake and working to save your relationship which may require you to give up a certain amount of your freedom and privacy be careful not to make concessions that fundamentally change who you are or violate your integrity.

To succeed, however, America needs a president capable of admitting to mistakes and of learning from them.