Sentence examples for mistake of beating from inspiring English sources

Ms. Elliott, the deputy clerk of court, made the mistake of beating her boss by 19 votes, winning the right to face the top vote-getter, Alma White, in the runoff on June 27.

We are told, for instance, that when Alexander's tutor Leonidas makes the mistake of beating the young prince: "He confronted dry wide eyes, their irises stretched to a pale rim round the black; hard-slit white lips and dilated nostrils; a blazing rage, condensed by silence like the core of a furnace.

Stuart Broad and Jonathan Trott are the undisputed Fifa kings - just don't make the mistake of beating Trott on his home turf because he's such a sore loser he'll kick you out of his room!

The government then made a terrible "mistake" of beating up a group of monks in Rakhine State in western Burma, and the movement suddenly had an opportunity to put its planning into practice, the monks said.

It was to be the making of Sterling, who made his full debut for the club just weeks later, starring as Liverpool came within a mistake or two of beating then champions Manchester City at Anfield.

"We want to tackle this Grand Prix in the same way as all the others, concentrating on ourselves with our feet on the ground, trying to do a good job, without making mistakes and with the aim of beating our rivals.

The first spiritual step offers another choice--instead of beating yourself up for your mistakes, you can accept them.

In one case he was found guilty of beating up a policewoman whom he mistook for a press photographer.

Synchronized pairs of beating flagella.

… It would be a mistake to beat this [interpretation] down".

Nobody gets out of this life without mistakes, but beating yourself up over them over and over accomplishes nothing.