The fundamental error of those who insisted on a narrow definition of Americanism, as Bourne saw it, was believing that Americanism had any fixed definition at all.
Alexander will go further in his criticism of the war than just the fundamental error of the absence of weapons of mass destruction, arguing that long-term repercussions were not considered.
The fundamental error of the fatal friendship of the Bush-Blair era was that they believed their own propaganda about US military might and the doctrine of "full spectrum dominance".
Early reports on Disneyland Paris frequently cited tension between the Disney theme-park culture, with its strictly enforced dress codes, grooming guidelines and insistence on cheerfulness for its staff, with the more, let us say, laissez-faire attitude of the French (though the fundamental error of not serving wine in the park's restaurants was quickly corrected).
England did precisely as well at last year's World Cup as those in touch with rugby reality anticipated, but only half as well as hoped by the vast multitudes who made the fundamental error of assuming Martin Johnson's stellar playing career automatically qualified him for the very different role of national manager.
England did precisely as well at last year's World Cup as those in touch with reality had anticipated, but only half as well as hoped by the vast multitudes who made the fundamental error of assuming Martin Johnson's stellar playing career automatically qualified him for the very different role of national manager.
And again: "The fundamental error of egalitarianism lies in supposing that it is morally important whether one person has less than another regardless of how much either of them has" (Frankfurt 1987, p. 34).
Pope John Paul II similarly addressed the "fundamental error of socialism" as its devaluation of the individual.
"The fundamental error of this administration is that it is continuity.
The fundamental error of seeing God as male was enshrined by the Church Fathers who chose which gospel accounts to include in the official New Testament and excluded all the Gnostic Gospels that contain references to an androgynous God,.
