Sentence examples for mistakes long from inspiring English sources

In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, for example, the audience knows that Oedipus's acts are tragic mistakes long before he recognizes his own errors.

They get jobs, have love lives, sex lives, make mistakes, long for a good time and have a hard time getting it.

To stem the consequent panic, regulators had to rescue scores of other companies.But the regulators made mistakes long before the Lehman bankruptcy, most notably by tolerating global current-account imbalances and the housing bubbles that they helped to inflate.

"Society tells us 'Get married before 30…' I think if we just take our time as women, and do what comes natural to us and for us, we would make fewer mistakes," Long tells Ebony.

As things turned out, it was a pretty monotonous evening, and I was regretting my mistake long before Arthur came into the lounge bar and stood waiting for someone to serve him.

You have to learn how to let go and let others make mistakes as long as they're not catastrophic.

You learn by making mistakes — as long as you don't make the same ones again and again.

I don't mind failing and making mistakes, as long as we're not making the same mistakes".

Why then does Taseer make so many amateurish mistakes, with long passages of exposition delivered through dialogue and prose sullied by infelicities?

They are the outsiders, overlooked or even shunned because of their race, their age, their sexuality, because of mistakes made long ago.

Although the list of mistakes is long and continues to grow, let's start with the recent dilemma: the "AfPak" drama.