However, it would be a big mistake to rule Mr Sarkozy out.
But, with an energetic campaign under way, it would be a mistake to rule him out.
Mr. Gephardt said he thought it would be a mistake to rule out going to court.
"It would be a mistake to rule it out," comments Brice Teinturier, director of Ipsos, a polling group.
Then again, it would be a mistake to rule out the power of nostalgia — or at least dug-in habits.
It is always a mistake to rule out a political comeback from judicial affairs in France, as many a politician knows.
But Mr. Meyer said it would be a mistake to rule out further rate cuts in an effort to preserve the flexibility to reduce rates should the economy not recover or encounter an unexpected shock like another terrorist attack.
It would be a mistake to rule out W. Sure, he didn't win the popular vote, and he seems to be shrinking every day, and he's breaking out in boils and eating too much kiddie food, like peanut butter and jelly and grilled cheese sandwiches, and he seems disengaged from his first presidential crisis -- i.e. whether he will be president.
He conceded that it was a mistake to rule out a fully government-run health system, or a "single-payer plan," not because he supports it but because doing so alienated a large, vocal constituency and left Mr. Obama's proposal of a public health plan to compete with private insurers as the most liberal position.
However, Singleton et al state that "while one should be mindful of [weaknesses] it would be a mistake to rule out nonprobability sampling," particularly "in the early stages of investigating a problem, when the objective is to become more informed about the problem itself".
