Sentence examples for recognizing a mistake from inspiring English sources

When Benitez was traded for Jeff Nelson -- a move widely praised but one that could not have occurred without first obtaining Benitez -- they claimed the Yankees were just recognizing a mistake.

"Experience is the ability to recognize a mistake when you make it again".

Checking Dr. Spence's calculations, Dennis Rawlins and Keith Pickering almost immediately recognized a mistake in using observations of the two stars to establish true north at Giza.

Or be agile, recognize a mistake, and fix it?" It's a reasonable take on the issue.

But even when the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recognizes a mistake and invalidates a patent, there is no guarantee those rights won't still be leveraged against the holder's competitors.

The advantage of being 63 is I have learned, as one wag put it, that "experience teaches you to recognize a mistake when you've made it again".

An erroneously enciphered text can be impossible to interpret correctly, and it is difficult to recognize a mistake without a double-check.

Even if someone recognized that a mistake had been made, we figured they couldn't throw us out at that point, not in front of all the other guests.

More possible is prosecution of the officials responsible for expelling Zelaya, which even Micheletti has recognized was a "mistake".

"While my intention was not to do anything wrong, I recognized that a mistake was made and quickly disclosed this information to the governor's ethics officer -- a former assistant U.S. attorney -- who recommended that I provide the information to the OEIG for appropriate investigation," Stermer said.

He is testing the waters early, recognizing it was a mistake to jump into the 2012 race just months before the primaries, while still high on painkillers and recovering from major back surgery.