Sentences with phrase «error of judgment»

It was a serious error of judgment — he lost 81 colleagues, some of whom are going to be off the reservation permanently now.
It is a grave error of judgment to assume that terrorism can be stamped out by war.
We make what I believe to be a fundamental error of judgment.
How can real estate professionals help their clients avoid errors of judgment?
It seems to me a serious error of judgment and the balance between privacy and freedom of speech was wrong.
All of these were described as errors of judgment which had created an atmosphere of distrust.
It's not only drivers who occasionally make errors of judgment on the roads and byways.
A special investigation into the scandal found that though Mr. Paterson and his advisers made errors of judgment in their handling of a domestic violence case involving Mr. Johnson, their actions were not criminal.
Bankrolling a state - sponsored cover - up is a massive error of judgment by Haringey Council, and compounds their mishandling of the whole affair.
Ed Miliband accused the prime minister of a «terrible error of judgment» for his handling of Maria Miller's expenses after her «perfunctory and inadequate» apology to MPs.
We find ourselves guilty of errors of judgment and distortions of our sources when we apply to the history of Asia our own religious patterns and evaluations.
The article is a massive error of judgment that will infuriate many Catholics.
He or she is not to be judged by the result, nor is he or she to be held liable for errors of judgment.2 For instance, in Crits v. Sylvester, 3 the Ontario Court of Appeal noted, and the Supreme Court of Canada re-affirmed, the following:
Delivering judgment in Southall v General Medical Council [2009] EWHC 1155 (Admin), Mr Justice Blake said: «Dr Southall's conduct was not a mere error of judgment in a challenging environment where there may have been few established principles for guidance.
Opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband on Friday urged Cameron to apologize for «the appalling error of judgment he made in hiring Andy Coulson,» but Cameron refused and said Coulson remained a friend.
An honest, conscientious error of judgment, made by a person who is willing and able to change his mind when shown to be in the wrong, is a very different thing from the sin that Jesus condemned.
The prime minister's defense cut little ice, particularly with Mr. Miliband, the Labour leader, who called it «a catastrophic error of judgment» and brought hoots of approval from Labour backbenchers when he said of Mr. Cameron, «He just doesn't get it, Mr. Speaker.»
«They should now finally have the good grace and decency to acknowledge their grotesque error of judgment and apologise.»
That Brown's negotiating team (including two certain chaps called Ed) was woefully underprepared, arrogant even, in its meetings with the Lib - Dem counterparts, and that Mandelson made another rare (if another catastrophically damaging) error of judgment there.
Pat Rafferty, secretary of Unite's Scottish branch, described the incident as «a gross error of judgment».
But if the rat had left a restaurant with a waiting time below its threshold — only to encounter a far longer wait at the next spoke, it had made a bona fide error of judgment, and regret would be appropriate.
Will Brian ever be able to recover from his momentary error of judgment?
Appellate review serves many functions in law, including: promoting equal justice, correcting errors of judgment committed by the trial court, and developing a precedent of law to be applied in future disputes.
It's a wonder to me that original or innovative games ever get through this system — at times it seems like it must have been some sort of grievous error of judgment on the part of somebody in the upper echelons, allowing a team to get paid to make what they want.
In the case of RussiaCollusionGate, obsequiousness, vanity, and groupthink led to horrendous errors of judgment within the FBI as some conspired possibly unwittingly to overthrow democracy.
Misconduct in science does not include errors of judgment; errors in the recording, selection, or analysis of data; differences in opinions involving the interpretation of data; or misconduct unrelated to the research process.
It is a serious error of judgment to dismiss fundamentalists in any cavalier fashion.
Ed Miliband accuses the prime minister of a «terrible error of judgment» for his handling of Maria Miller's expenses.
Judge Kaye found that Governor Paterson and his advisers had made errors of judgment in their handling of the case, but that their actions had not been criminal.
He said: «I have made a ridiculous and grave error of judgment.
However, the Court of Appeal held that the failure of Ridley to take effective action to protect Van Colle was «not a mere error of judgment, but a failure on the part of DC Ridley as a professional police officer to carry out his duties properly in circumstances in which there was evidence of intimidation of a witness».
I had planned to write a full - blown rant about the numerous blind spots and errors of judgment in this morning's Academy Award nominations, but at this point I'm too tired and resigned to summon up the necessary fire.
To think in an agony of remorse of all one has done wrong, whether with sinful intention or errors of judgment, and to be inwardly upset over the good works one meant to get done and failed to do, is a poor frame of mind in which to try to go to sleep.
His error may be called rather an error of judgment.
As an error of judgment, this is an endearing one, but also one possible only from the Western vantage.
Indeed, I prefer to ignore the very category of «psychological fiction» as an error of judgment.
The fact that United are having all sorts of trouble in front of goal while Chicharito is banging them in for fun at his new club Bayer Leverkusen suggests that the United boss has made a serious error of judgment.
Sir Malcolm admitted today he may have made errors of judgment - but insisted he'd done nothing wrong.
Kaye said Paterson suffered serious «errors of judgment» in his handling of the Johnson situation, but Gillibrand has so far side - stepped commenting on whether that rises to the level of a resignable offense.
But this error of judgment, under pressure from SDP turncoats, does not diminish his stature as one of the most outstanding British socialists and democrats of the twentieth century.
«His tragedy is that he is nowadays remembered (and perhaps always will be) for the error of judgment which brought him down.
With Governing Council inaugurated, Vice Chancellor and other Principal Officers of the University appointed and take - off fund in NIMASA 2015 Appropriation Act passed by the National Assembly; it is clearly an error of judgment to contemplate scrapping the Nigeria Maritime University.
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