Sentences with phrase «fatal mistake of»

We attribute this to: (1) an effort to avoid repeating the fatal mistake of last year of the delayed iPhone 5 launch, which gave competitors room to grab market share; and (2) the new iPhones this year are mainly designed on the basis of the current iPhone 5, which suggests development time could be reduced.

It was a bold and confusing attempt to force people into a new world of touch apps, but Microsoft made the fatal mistake of providing something that looked like Windows but didn't function like Windows.

Not only would I recommend this seminar, I would strongly caution those who might make the fatal mistake of missing the practice and life - changing concepts that you present.

Although I saw it coming two seconds before it hit me I made the fatal mistake of assuming it could stop in time and that all would be well.

Perhaps you had all been making the fatal mistake of believing that everybody thinks like a scientist.

The fatal mistake of political * leaders *.

They will often initiate games with their owners, and they demonstrate their hunting instincts in the home by catching in mid-air flying insects that make the fatal mistake of entering their territory.

Many people make the fatal mistake of not keeping their dog on a leash when walking near the street and suffer from that mistake terribly when their dog gets hit by car.

An other observation: «When one makes the fatal mistake of relying on ISBNs to estimate the ebook market, only 10 % of unit sales and 7 % of gross consumer ebook dollars appear to be going to self - published books.»

When one makes the fatal mistake of relying on ISBNs to estimate the ebook market, only 10 % of unit sales and 7 % of gross consumer ebook dollars appear to be going to self - published books.

Or perhaps they make the fatal mistake of overestimating on the price factor and price their tablets that end up being beyond what the consumers at large are capable of paying for.

Herein lies the first fatal mistake of the film: Affleck structures the first third of the film that takes place in Boston as a kind of prologue, briefly introducing Joe lying in a hospital bed before moving back seemingly only a few months back in time.

When Alma makes the fatal mistake of falling in love, everything backfires.

Eszterhas's campy screenwriting is gone, and in its place is an equally explicit, but very dry pulp erotic mystery by Leora Barish (Desperately Seeking Susan, Venus Rising) and Henry Bean (Deep Cover, Internal Affairs) that seems to make the fatal mistake of taking its characters and plot a little more seriously than it should.

While Lurie does a fine job in the technical aspects of directing, he makes the fatal mistake of not knowing when enough implausibility is enough.

The only way to make this hard - to - swallow trash fly would be to play it up for some tongue - in - cheek laughs (like Mute Witness), but neither Waller nor Davies see the humor in such unrealistic material and they make the fatal mistake of going for serious drama and tension.

After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea.

Mustapha Abdul Jalil, instead, made the fatal mistake of putting those militias on payroll.

After my LG was born I lost the pregnancy kg's in 3 weeks, what I then did was make the fatal mistake of giving into my breastfeeding cravings of sugar and chocolates, within a few months I had picked up all the pregnancy weight again and some.

Walcott wasn't interested in backing down and was even ready to get into it with peacemaker Tom Huddlestone who made the fatal mistake of putting his hands on the Arsenal man.

Up to Christmas, Olivier was in his purple patch and scoring for fun, but then in January he made the fatal mistake of being interviewed by the Arsenal Magazine.

There's an old story about how late - 19th - century railroad barons made the fatal mistake of operating as if they were in the railroad business, as opposed to the transportation business.

As Cuban shares, they made the fatal mistake of asking their customers what features they wanted on the next version.

Quiznos» marketing team made the classic, fatal mistake of capturing people's attention without showing them any meaningful benefits.

Not exact matches

These are just a few of the fatal mistakes that can befall startups, as illustrated in the infographic by Anna Vital, information designer at Funders and Founders.

However, whether an injury is fatal or more glancing, one of the biggest mistakes employers make is improper documentation.

Rather than one big mistake, the disaster likely was the result of numerous small decisions that caused normality to shift and that ultimately caused a fatal explosion.

His fatal mistake was conflating the interests of one company — TransCanada Corp. — and the interests of his country.

Investors who have experienced the price run - up in the bond market but who have not marked down their forward expected portfolio rate of return are making, in our view, a possibly fatal mistake.»

Inter's denial to reload as soon as they hit the peak of the mountain was a fatal mistake.

This perception that mistakes and failures become increasingly fatal as our children grow is reinforced when schools do not allow their students to redeem themselves when they have an inadequate grasp of content.

Various agencies are working together to remind drivers that any type of multitasking while driving can be a fatal mistake.

Available evidence from captive snakes suggests that even those strikes that result from cases of mistaken identity or defensive behavior may still result in constriction, which can prove fatal to people when a large python or a small human is involved.

In fact, 95 % of physicians report having witnessed a serious medical mistake, and 56 % say theyve personally been involved in a serious preventable error, says Sanjaya Kumar, MD, author of Fatal Care: Survive in the U.S. Health System.

What this means, of course, is that following the natural impulse many of us will have with a heart attack, that is, to deny and delay, can become a fatal mistake.

The fatal flaw of this screenwriting term paper is that Cooper's character is a boring jerk we're supposed to regard as a nice guy who made an honest mistake.

But by stepping out of the shadows, Jack may be making a fatal mistake.

Every bone in my body said releasing «Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny» at this time of year was a fatal mistake.

But they've also learned from their fatal mistakes — the screw - up that cost these grieving parents their youngest child, and which provides the movie some stakes beyond the matter of evading otherworldly mantises on the prowl.

Essentially, this acts as a «do - over» button, allowing you to rewind a few seconds of a race to correct a fatal mistake like a crash or accidentally going out of bounds.

Unlike the archetypes spoofed in a Geico commercial, the characters here have an inkling of their potentially fatal mistakes.

The officer later claimed that he meant to reach for his Taser and not his revolver, but his mistake was fatal: Grant, who was unarmed and restrained at the time of the shooting, died later at a local hospital.

I'm not exaggerating when I say that Jewel Summoner is at least half dialogue, if not three - quarters — a fatal mistake when the quality of such is so unappealing.

What makes the older games harder though is the fact that the monsters deal massive damage, even with proper equipment which leaves you less room for mistakes because one mistake can already be fatal (if you've experienced event Ivory / Stygian / Brachy's damage, that's pretty much the everyday life of an old school hunter).

You're talking about the actions and consequences of people that made fatal mistakes and using them to punish the people that didn't make fatal mistakes.

Following his first book on leadership, Leaders Who Last, Dave Kraft consulted with colleagues, readers, and fellow leaders to generate a list of the top ten fatal mistakes leaders make — fatal in that they can be the end of ministry effectiveness, relationships, and God's blessing.

The reason for this is, by understanding the role of credit agencies, credit bureau and lenders, you avoid this fatal credit mistake.

Over-leveraging is the second mistake of «what are the 10 fatal mistakes traders make».

Mistakes are harshly punished at the flick of a wrist and mismanagement of your resources is a fatal error you won't make twice.

The turn based nature of traditional Roguelikes encourages a throughtful pace of play but in Spelunky you often have to rush, which creates panic and leads to fatal mistakes.