Sentence examples for ruinous mistake from inspiring English sources

Sure, Cassandras on the Israeli right warned that yielding territory and control to the Palestinians was a ruinous mistake.

In a short race, anyone can make a ruinous mistake (lose an edge, hook a tip, choose the wrong line) or encounter bad luck (equipment malfunction, snow squall, gust of wind).

When politicians make the ruinous mistake of actually saying what they mean in public — or, at the very least, breaching the talking-point orthodoxy that is demanded of them — they crack open an unintended window into their character.

"Attempting to rush from sector to sector applying first aid would be an economically futile and fiscally ruinous mistake," Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., the White House budget director, said today.

Kansas (5-0, 1-0 Big 12) overcame some potentially ruinous mistakes and scored a touchdown 65 seconds after giving up the lead in the fourth quarter.

As we move forward, let us not define an institution by individuals' ruinous mistakes.

As for importance, you'd be surprised how many otherwise intelligent companies make ruinous or expensive mistakes because in making their decision they were a paradigm behind.

If true, this is a ruinous fiasco and no mistake.

None of its recent mistakes has been as ruinous for voters as the recession of the early 1990s.

But organizations representing doctors and hospitals fear that mandatory public disclosure of errors that cause death or serious injury will subject doctors and hospitals to ruinous lawsuits, driving doctors to hide their mistakes.

Inevitably, another question follows: whatever Congress's intention, whether to be generous to grieving families or to spare the airlines potentially ruinous lawsuits, was its hasty creation of the compensation fund a mistake?