Sentence examples for mistaken steps from inspiring English sources

In the formulation of Grigory Yavlinsky, a now-marginalised liberal politician, Mr Yeltsin took mistaken steps in the right direction towards democracy.

He said he was happy with his program and that his one major mistake, stepping out of his triple Axel, was just a fluke.

The paper, reeling (or so said the Post, many times) from a lotto-game debacle that awarded cash prizes to thousands of readers by mistake, stepped up last Monday and finally played Hatfield to the Post's McCoy.

They are mistaking a step premised on an impossibility for a semblance of reality".

Please don't mistake this step by going on crazy starvation diets.

The lone consolation is that conventional wisdom has been mistaken at every step of the campaign.

11.36am: Zoya Phan, international co-ordinator at Burma Campaign UK, has described Aung San Suu Kyi's release as a public relations exercise by the military junta, which should not be mistaken for a step towards democratic reform.

In her 2001 memoir, Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self, she tells how in Jewish suburbia she is mistaken for her step-siblings' nanny; and in San Francisco, black girls accuse her of acting white.

She is mistaken at each step.

One would be sadly mistaken to think any steps in the process of mastery of something may be skipped.

But to consider the legacy of Bell Labs is to see that we should not mistake small technological steps for huge technological leaps.