Sentence examples for usual mistakes from inspiring English sources

In the beginning, she and her husband had made the usual mistakes that young newlyweds make, but over time they'd cobbled together a decent life.

(Back in the day, Jean-Francois Revel nailed this kind of mindset - "the democracies are making their usual mistakes: ignoring even recent history, interpreting the facts in the way most favourable to Moscow, the way the Kremlin wants them to choose").

The questions linger, and AV was never any kind of truly convincing answer, which leaves us with a simple enough story: a very British refusal to embrace a change, compounded by an equally British failure to convince people otherwise, whereby "progressive" forces made an array of the usual mistakes.

Indeed, the article makes the usual mistakes of journalists parachuted into a territory they know little about, and who end up making odd claims unrecognisable to the locals.

And I don't even mean the usual mistakes, like the fact that Coach Raheem helped hire a DC who refused to use his players to their strengths in the first place, or how his offense went into a completely ineffective ultra-conservative vanilla mode even after Joshy F. proved he was capable of the big play.

Allow yourself to make all your usual mistakes so the other members can help you improve.

The equally good Ms. Dundas doesn't make the usual mistake of overly poeticizing her character.

Blanchett doesn't make the usual mistake of foreshadowing Blanche's end at the play's beginning; she allows Blanche a slow, fascinating decline.

Without them, Prescott would likely resemble the usual mistake-prone rookie quarterback, while Elliott would not even threaten Eric Dickerson's rookie rushing record.

"If the federal government got involved with this hurricane, they'd make the usual mistake of sending food, water, and medical supplies," he said.

Ms Merkel's most important ally may be Ursula von der Leyen, the family minister, who has successfully encroached on SPD territory.The usual mistake of Ms Merkel's opponents has been to underestimate her.