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When confronted with the intelligence community's consensus assessment that Russia had interfered in our election, he dismissed it with a sneering reference to mistaken claims about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

In a reference to the mistakes made in Iraq after Saddam fell, Clinton said: "From long experience, one factor we know has to happen … is unifying the various militias into a single military … Getting a national army under civilian command is essential".

Paul Mones, a lawyer in Portland, Ore., who represents several victims of sexual abuse in New York, said the cardinal's remarks were significant because they came from a leader "who has been at the forefront of resisting any change". But Mr. Mones said the cardinal's reference to possible mistakes was misleading.

"They have a great rapport with women and children". That was a direct reference to FBI and Department of Justice mistakes at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, and on a family farm at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.

Salgado said he assumed the reference was to mistakes made in that case by Walp and Doran, but never pursued it.

And it clearly did not think it appropriate to put some kind of reference to its "mistake" on yesterday's front page, as it should have done, because its "clarification" amounted to a complete retraction of its front page story.

A deputy Russian prime minister, Dmitry Rogozin, said the aircraft was working "impeccably" before the crash and suggested that "the human factor" — a reference to pilot error or a mistake by ground controllers — was likely to blame.

Lamoda, you might recall, played an infamous part in an embarrassing email last year from Oliver Samwer, one of the founders of Rocket Internet: in a letter to employees, he made detailed references to the mistakes Lamoda had made, as a cautionary tale for those not to be repeated in other markets.

This island's name derives from the Spanish Nuestra Señora de las Nieves "Our Lady of the Snows", a reference to the clouds (mistaken for snow) that surround the island's central peak.

With reference to the frequent calculation mistakes found in the monthly tally sheets, the key informants highlighted the staffs' poor mathematical skills to be a major challenge to the correct use of MTUHA.

This article was amended on 8 November 2017 to correct to Edinburgh University an earlier mistaken reference to St Andrews, and on 17 November 2017 to clarify that UK universities save costs rather than avoid taxes when blocker corporations are used.

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