Sentence examples for upon mistakes from inspiring English sources

"It was a series of missteps, errors built upon mistakes, until the case was just untriable," said Lt. Col. Gary D. Solis, a retired Marine Corps judge who now teaches military law at Georgetown University.

The result was widespread corruption and mismanagement — mistakes building upon mistakes.

"If the Japanese side clings obstinately to its course, making mistake upon mistake, then China will take strong countermeasures and Japan will bear all the consequences".

"Mistake had piled upon mistake across the years," said the city controller, Jonathan A. Saidel, who drew the line when he refused to pay a bill from city housing officials for another $9 million in proposed repairs on top of the $35 million total spent so far on the neighborhood.

In the film, which has its premiere tonight and opens Friday, Ralph Fiennes plays a politician who falls unwittingly in love with the character played by Ms. Lopez upon mistaking her for a guest at the luxury Manhattan hotel where she works as a maid.

Critics of the Bloomberg administration seized upon the mistakes.

Subtext, allusion, nuance, dramatic irony: these were the smithies upon which mistakes were forged.

It's just that based upon the mistakes that we've all made in the past, I'm not likely to make those mistakes.

The report affords us a unique opportunity to reflect upon the mistakes we have made and further the course we have already completed to correct them.

Flipkens, 27, with hair swept back and dark sports glasses, came to smother Bartoli's game with slice and force upon her mistakes.

After his painful divorce, he vowed to turn his life around and draw upon his mistakes to help others avoid them.