Sentence examples for mistaken decisions from inspiring English sources

Rankine's poem refers to the mistaken decisions by umpire Mariana Alves at the US Open in 2004, which contributed to your early exit from the tournament.

Hugh Kerr (Labour MEP 1994-99), Edinburgh Mistaken decisions to go to war are more terrible than other mistakes (Editorial, 5 July); except perhaps mistaken decisions not to go to war: Rwanda, 1 million dead; Syria unknown, but awful and not getting any better.

This caused the reactor core to shut down automatically, but a series of equipment and instrument malfunctions, human errors in operating procedures, and mistaken decisions in the ensuing hours led to a serious loss of water coolant from the reactor core.

Unless the decisions are all correct on the merits, any principle based on them must itself be flawed: for if it were morally correct it would not support the mistaken decisions.

McCain is willing to live with the consequences of his hasty mistaken decisions.

"It's unfortunate that the mistaken decisions of Chief Gannon and [Los Angeles World Airports Director] Gina Marie Lindsey are affecting airports across the nation," McClain said.

The networks' mistaken decision to call Florida so quickly came under fire from officials of the Bush campaign and some who analyze the news media.

Conversely, computerised bees that blindly followed the waggle dances of others without first checking whether the site was, in fact, as advertised, led to a swift but mistaken decision.

One City Council member said that at least part of the problem rose from what he called a mistaken decision to place the command center next to a terrorist target.

And yet, ironically, it is they who bear the largest burden of mistaken decisions--lengthy training and uncertain outcomes, job insecurity, and potential disillusionment with the scientific enterprise.

In a draft of a paper to be published in the Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy, he argues that whatever the court decided in a case of this kind, its decisions about the powers of institutions should not be mistaken for decisions on the essential question of right versus wrong.