cardinal error

But the roads all looked very similar and we made a cardinal error.

"The cardinal error is to be there with the only live camera and then miss whatever might happen," he said.

"It is a cardinal error to speculate in advance of the facts."

I understood, yes, it's one of the cardinal errors, a potentially lethal mistake.

"I think the Cardinal has made a cardinal error.

Fisk, distracted by the awful tea, had made the cardinal error of the novice.

On the day of the battle, Chelmsford commits a cardinal error in splitting his forces.

Here I have to review the possibility of a cardinal error, but I will leave my readers to judge.

He was later criticised for this decision, as it made a cardinal error in military theory: withdrawing from a major supply node.

The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it.

But I warn Your Grace, do not make the cardinal error of pressing my forbearance too far.

And Richard Nixon, Johnson's successor, made the cardinal error of presidents who do not understand that their control over such things is limited.

As, however, to the conduct of Mr. Nocton, his cardinal error is intelligible.

We are therefore trying to remedy two cardinal errors here today. We want two separate programmes, and we want more money.

- Diane Carlton makes the cardinal error of getting involved with her best friend Amy Davis' boyfriend, Gary.

Daryl Boston doubled in the fourth and moved around to score on yet another Cardinal error and a fielder's-choice grounder.

Simpson might have selected it as a silent method of killing Crofts had he tried to shout a warning, but now it was proving a cardinal error.

I had but one goal, which became something of an obsession: I wanted to know why Walcott had committed his cardinal error of the shoehorn.

A cardinal error had obviously been made, as the paper had made huge efforts beforehand to consult pressure groups about tackling their subject in an approved fashion.

It is a cardinal error, and one to which intellectual historians are especially prone, to suppose that people can only think in terms of one set of assumptions.

"It is frightful to think what might have happened," wrote Vice-Admiral Kornilov, "had it not been for this cardinal error of the enemy's."

The game remained tied until the bottom of the fourth inning, when the Giants scored four runs, three of which were unearned amid two Cardinals errors.

"Ah, I see that once again I have made the cardinal error of allowing my mouth to operate before I have properly engaged my brain."

In them, he argues that European leaders made a cardinal error a decade ago by setting monetary union in the western part of the continent as their chief political priority.