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made and mistake
While S.K. did not like Dylan Thomas, I liked his poems very much, but I made the mistake of telling Dylan Thomas so, whereupon he said to me, `` I suppose you think you know all about me ''.
But to imitate an opponent when he has made the mistake of his life would be a new high in statesmanlike folly.
So he made a mistake.
If it continues indefinitely it is nearly a statistical certainty that a mistake will be made and that the devastation will begin ''.
A couple of days later a balletomane told me he had telephoned Allied Arts for ticket information and was told `` the newspapers had made a mistake ''.
There also came a brief contretemps with the sound mixers who made the mistake of being overheard during a quiet moment near the conclusion of `` Do It Again '', and she made the tart observation that `` I never saw so much moving about in an audience ''.
I made the mistake of going to the Jour et Nuit.
If a mistake had been made, from the assembly's viewpoint it could only be because it had been misled.
The Sikhs became particularly troublesome, and after several unsuccessful efforts to subdue them, Zaman Shah made the mistake of appointing a forceful young Sikh chief, Ranjit Singh, as his governor in the Punjab.
He dismisses Nora's agonized choice made against her conscience for the sake of his health and her years of secret efforts to free them from the ensuing obligations and danger of loss of reputation, while preserving his peace of mind, as a mere mistake that she made owing to her foolishness, one of her most endearing feminine traits.
One problem with sports arbitrage is that bookmakers sometimes make mistakes and this can lead to an invocation of the ' palpable error ' rule, which most bookmakers invoke when they have made a mistake by offering or posting incorrect odds.
There does, however, seem to have been a delay between the Athenian arrival at Marathon, and the battle ; Herodotus, who evidently believed that Miltiades was eager to attack, may have made a mistake whilst seeking to explain this delay.
Decius ' forces defeated their opponents in the front line, but made the fatal mistake of pursuing their fleeing enemy into the swamp, where they were ambushed and routed.
Odrade believes that the Bene Gesserit made a mistake in fearing emotion, and that in order to evolve, the Bene Gesserit must learn to accept emotions.
Having consolidated his conquests in Syria ( 1831 – 38 ), Ibrahim Pasha, son of the viceroy of Egypt, Muhammad Ali Pasha, made the fatal mistake of trying to disarm the Christians and Druzes of the Lebanon and to draft the latter into his army.
Instead of encouraging people to accept that they made a mistake, it encourages people to deny their actions and blame others.
Training as a jockey in his teens, Jones later said " I made one huge mistake.
According to Pickover, the mathematics behind fractals began to take shape in the 17th century when the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz pondered recursive self-similarity ( although he made the mistake of thinking that only the straight line was self-similar in this sense ).
Shortly after the story broke the White House admitted to a low-level mistake, saying that Fox had not made a specific request to interview Feinberg.
When Hayek left Salzburg in 1977, he wrote, " I made a mistake in moving to Salzburg ".
Profits can be made by purchasing the mispriced security and then waiting for the market to recognize its " mistake " and reprice the security.
Kelly, at the very peak of his creative powers, now made what in retrospect is seen as a serious mistake.

made and answering
Among the critics of the views put forward in this book was a Jesuit, Francis Line ( 1595 – 1675 ), and it was while answering his objections that Boyle made his first mention of the law that the volume of a gas varies inversely to the pressure of the gas, which among English-speaking people is usually called Boyle's Law after his name.
It is no less than drawing carriages upon the road with steam engines ... he says that what he proposes, is different from anything you ever thought of, and that he is positively certain of its answering and that there is a great deal of money to be made by it.
Another, potentially serious side-effect of " nuisance " telemarketer calling is that it prompts some exasperated people to begin only answering calls from numbers that they actually recognize on their caller-ID displays, preventing emergency calls and calls from loved ones using pay-phones or someone else's phone from getting through, as well as other legitimate calls made by " unknown but honest " persons who are calling for the first time, such as new acquaintances or responders to a classifieds ad.
Plato ’ s great work of the middle period, the Republic, is devoted to answering a challenge made by a sophist Thrasymachus, that conventional morality, particularly the ‘ virtue ’ of justice, actually prevents the strong man from achieving eudaimonia.
Most harmfully to the company, forced-out employees, especially those whose advanced skills have made them attractive to other companies and gained them immediate respect, may have few reservations about speaking frankly when answering questions about why they changed employers ; they may even make affirmative efforts to " badmouth " their former employer in an attempt at venting or revenge.
" Wanting to be liberal with Foster if I bought him out, since he had created the paper and originally owned most of the stock, and had made a success of it, I thought for a while before answering and finally asked him how much he owed.
Results on the MBTI suggest the probable type based on the choices made when answering the questions ; however, only the individual can determine his or her true type preference.
Arnaldo Forlani made the biggest mistake in his life, simply answering " what is a bribe ?".
When he returns home heartbroken, Ross finds a message on his answering machine and when he plays it back he hears Rachel telling him she loves him too and what a mistake she's made and has to get off the plane but is interrupted by flight attendants when the line cuts off, leaving Ross wondering if she got off.
If a team earns three points without missing a single question, they have the option of going for the " Mother Lode " by answering two more questions correctly without missing one, or else a fictitious penalty is put upon them ( usually made up on the spot by Packard and related to a joke from earlier in the show ).
Among the various pieces of information stored at Nizkor is a sound recording of an answering machine message allegedly made by white supremacist Tom Metzger, encouraging various individuals to " take action " against " Nikzor on the Internet.
He mentioned nothing official after the last TV appearance but he had some appearances on the press answering some corruption cases and its investigations that was made under his Cabinet that he did not approve of.
" This comment is often made upon answering a telephone call from said sister, when Elizabeth is hopelessly over for coffee.
Machine Gun Fellatio's first well known track was " Isaac or Fuzz ", released in 1997 and made of parts of a voice message left on a record company answering machine ( mostly humming the tune to " Reach Up " by the Paul Oakenfold-related project Perfecto Allstarz ) put to a fast dance beat.
Then, on September 24, Kaplan won $ 60, 000 by correctly answering three questions about former United States Presidents ; the win made him the highest winning contestant in Challengers history to that point.
In a 1996 paper discussing the various sociological studies that had then been made of Paganism, the sociologist Sarah M. Pike noted that Drawing Down the Moon had gone " a long way towards answering the question " as to " what makes these ritual activities valid and viable to those who engage in them ".
Tierney made a number of appearances on Hill Street Blues, as the desk sergeant on the night tour, and in fact uttered the last line of the last episode of the series, answering the phone at the station house's front desk and saying, " Hill Street Station ".
On February 10, 2005, the Quebec Regional Panel of the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, answering a listener's complaint, determined that Mailloux had made " specifically-focused abusive and unduly discriminatory remarks " toward ethnic groups when talking about immigration in a broadcast.
Peter begins answering John's questions by explaining why he made the Croc swallow the clock.
In Ordinary Work, Extraordinary Grace, he narrated the influence of Opus Dei in his conversion, and what made him feel that Opus Dei was his specific calling within the Catholic Church: ( 1 ) its members ' devotion to the Bible, ( 2 ) its ecumenism, since Opus Dei was the first Catholic institution to welcome non-Catholics as cooperators, ( 3 ) the upright lives of its members, ( 4 ) they were ordinary people, who lived theology, ( 5 ) holy ambition: " a devout work ethic ", ( 6 ) the practice of hospitality in answering his questions, ( 7 ) prayer: " They made time for intimate prayer every day.
Hosted by Mike O ' Malley, the show features two teams answering questions and playing games for the opportunity to guess a hidden picture on a giant screen made up of 16 smaller screens.
Vito made a guest appearance on WZR on September 16, 2008 answering Questions from callers he also talked about his days in ECW and WCW also talking about his dress gimmick on SmackDown.
Tim taunted " I stole your beat and made it better, to show the whole world that you aint nothing but a bunch of pussies " before a number of disparaging answering machine messages supported Tim's position.

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