Sentence examples for old mistake from inspiring English sources

The Government made the old mistake of confusing cyclical trends for structural ones.

MICROSOFT'S desire to bury an old mistake may be unprecedented in the annals of commercial information technology.

— In an otherworldly grove of cinnamon-colored giant sequoias, workers in June will jackhammer an old mistake: a road and parking lot that impinge on the hallowed forest.

The group's president, Daniel Hannan, a Conservative MEP, caused outrage last year when he described the NHS to a US television network as a 60-year old mistake.

Hailing this as "the first glimmerings of the opening of universities to supply-side reform", Willetts makes the old mistake of confusing human needs with market demand.

THOSE carefree days of summer are, in parts of our state, not so carefree at all, thanks to an old mistake that won't go away.

The old mistakes would not be repeated.

Let us not repeat old mistakes.

There should be no return to old mistakes.

That will involve the admission of old mistakes.

Maybe this saved them from making the same old mistakes.