'rectify a mistake' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when you want to indicate that a wrong or incorrect action needs to be fixed or corrected. For example: "We must rectify the mistake we made in the last order."
Senate rules should be changed to rectify a mistake made 47 years ago.
Next to never does a city have an opportunity to rectify a mistake as colossal as Penn Station.
What's troubling here is that Group Commerce couldn't rectify a mistake after more than a full year of inquiries by a customer.
It was as if someone was trying to rectify a mistake but didn't do it entirely or couldn't quite figure out the coding of the website to change the title after they changed the photograph.
Andrew Gorlin, M.D. Hilo, Hawaii, Aug. 21, 2007 To the Editor: It's great to read that Medicare will create incentives for hospitals to avoid errors, but simply refusing to pay for care given to rectify a mistake is an incentive in the wrong form.
"We all felt that the presentation of Mrs. Thompson's library card needed to be honored with a ceremony and we also wanted the opportunity to rectify a mistake of the past," Ann Burlingame, deputy director of Wake County Public Libraries, told The Huffington Post on Tuesday.
The absence of svabhāva or emptiness is nothing phenomena have within themselves, but only something which is projected onto them from the outside in an attempt to rectify a mistaken cognition.
Dalla Vedova told the BBC: "Justice has superseded and has rectified a mistake.
Her lawyer, Carlo Della Vedova, said outside court that there was "no winner" in the case and the appeal court had "rectified a mistake".
Josh strongly wants to "wave off the FDA" on the release, and it later appears that his underlying motive for this is to rectify a previous mistake.
That is an outrageous abdication of responsibility by officials who should have stepped in to rectify a horrendous scoring mistake by their own judges at the Olympics.
