Sentence examples for mistakes amount from inspiring English sources

Even if the mistakes amount to an egregious failure, the argument still needs to give reasons to think that Romney will do a better job.

This is also where human rights organizations clash with military lawyers like Newton, since they argue that the regular occurrence of such mistakes amount to war crimes.

In a lengthy memorandum, he argued that the mistakes amounted to "poor judgment" but not misconduct, so no sanction was warranted.

Organizations researching civilian deaths in Libya said that the alliance's resistance to making itself accountable and acknowledging mistakes amounted to poor public policy.

"This completely understandable mistake amounts to racially stereotyping black people as criminals and this will be portrayed by some of our critics as deliberate police racism of the 'racial hatred' variety".

She had three serious mistakes, which amount to a failure.

I recognize much has been done to damage Al Qaeda's networks but, make no mistake, no amount of "rendition" of bin Laden lieutenants can mask our failure to bring to justice the man who ordered 9/11.

The Jets knew they would be walking into a buzzsaw at Heinz Field, yet they made the kind of mental mistakes that never amount to winning football games.

There is a time for recognizing achievements, and there is a time to acknowledge that horrible things have happened, that children have been hurt, and that there are some mistakes that no amount of success can absolve.

Sure you'll make mistakes but no amount of book learning or lectures can guard against that; only practical experience will teach you what you need to know to succeed.

But Mr. Mahler insisted that his client's mistake did not amount to criminal negligence.