Sentence examples for the mistake of applying from inspiring English sources

Firms, he argues, should not make the mistake of applying useful scepticism too narrowly.

We make the mistake of applying arithmetic and the mechanics of the economic world to the living state.

I was not the first to make the mistake of applying contemporary values to another world.

Don't make the mistake of applying it too thickly.

Dec. 21 BARBARA In the East Germany of the 1960s, a doctor (Nina Hoss) makes the political mistake of applying for an exit visa and finds herself banished to a small hospital in the hinterlands.

Most of all, Brooks makes the basic mistake of applying bell-curve probabilities to individuals — and he does so in order to legislate; in particular, to legislate religion and its values: Governments keep initiating policies they think will produce prosperity, only to get sacked, time and again, from their spiritual blind side.

The cat shelter does not, say the state archaeology officials, who are trying to close it two years after it made the apparently fatal mistake of applying for a permit to install a toilet.

If you ask "What makes the Kenyans so good?" and you answer "They have elastic calf muscles", then you'd be making the mistake of over-applying the finding of this research.

Rathmann made the mistake of laughing.

Don't make the mistake of Malthus.

It was the mistake of my life.