Sentence examples for seminal mistake from inspiring English sources

DOS quickly became the dominant computing platform for the PC and the basis of Microsoft's might.Two decades later Microsoft may have made a similarly seminal mistake.

THE most important thing we can do to help the Iraqis and ourselves is to recognize — and reverse — the seminal mistake that followed the quick destruction of Saddam Hussein's murderous regime: the foolish (however well-meaning) and arrogant belief that we know better than the Iraqis how to rebuild their devastated society.

Richard Perle said in late 2006 that "the seminal mistake" was "bringing Bremer in".

This revelatory moment in the film could be the seminal mistake, or, perhaps, deliverance, in Foulkes' fifty-year career as a self-imposed exiled artist from Los Angeles' elite collector enclaves in the beach communities and Beverly Hills and, ultimately, the international art community.

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Still, it would be a mistake to discount what could be a seminal juncture in the dystopian odyssey that is American mass incarceration.

This seminal work, like so many innovations in sound, is the result of a fortunate mistake.

But Kennedy's obsession with Tuchman's take on the messy reality of war, the one-mistake-after-another stumble toward catastrophe, helped to shape the nation's attitude toward that seminal confrontation, and all the military encounters we have entered – and been drawn into – since.