Sentence examples for order a mistake from inspiring English sources

He called the principal's order a mistake.

But citing America's dysfunction to justify China's turn away from political order is a mistake.

He said his executive order was a "mistake" but also tried to defend it, noting "cervical cancer is a horrible way to die".

Charles Majors, the superintendent for Brooklyn high schools, said in an interview yesterday that the order "was a mistake, and it has been corrected".

Mr. Welch said he would have readily met with environmentalists to explain why G.E. thinks that the dredging order is a mistake.

Historian Jeffrey D. Wert blames this oversight on Longstreet, describing it either as a misunderstanding of Lee's verbal order or a mistake.

During an interview in his lavish campaign headquarters in Lahore, Mr. Moonis said the mailing of the money orders was a mistake.

After being told that the order must be a mistake, he should have figured out what was happening.

An illegible order led to a mistake, and some of the music had loud, pounding bass lines.

He said that no one from Syracuse had placed a gag order on him — a mistake, if that was the case — but that he had already made his points, so why repeat them?

But one lesson of the Bear bailout is that anything that encourages the sovereign equivalents of Lehman, Merrill or Morgan Stanley -- call them Portugal, Ireland and Spain -- to prevaricate over the tough fiscal measures necessary to get their financial affairs in order would be a mistake.