Sentence examples for proved a mistake from inspiring English sources

That proved a mistake.

The black, knee-length Fendi skirts that lined the sale rack last week proved a mistake.

Asked whether the December interest rate hike had proved a mistake in light of the current market turbulence, Ms Yellen insisted it had been the right decision.

Later that year, First Union's $2 billion acquisition of the Money Store, a lender to consumers considered high credit risks, also proved a mistake.

Sooner or later the world outside the conference chamber, in the form of deteriorating economies, angry electorates or a divisive foreign war, is likely to disrupt even the most elegant political compromises and legal drafting.Dismissing European treaties as inconsequential bits of paper has, admittedly, often proved a mistake in the past.

This could prove a mistake.

This is likely to prove a mistake.

Embracing the protests may prove a mistake for Democrats, Mr. Bennett said.

De Silvestro thinks that decision is likely to prove a mistake.

B7 International Reaction CONDEMNATION IN IRAN -- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's religious leader, said the airstrikes would prove a mistake for Britain and the United States.

I surmised that this project would prove a mistake, like Mr. Churchill's attempt to take Gallipoli in 1915, but it would be the kind of mistake that would look good in his memoirs.