Sentences with phrase «was a mistake of»

And he says that the hedge fund industry's bets on the ever - embattled Valeant Pharmaceuticals was a mistake of epic proportions, rivaling the losses from Enron and other spectacular failures.

«Sometimes there's the mistake of not basing your share on the discounted rate,» Vitals.com's Rothschild said.

This is a mistake of critical proportions.

It is a mistake of tactics because the protections of the Act are of immediate practical importance to the traditional values movement.

It was the mistake of those who discovered and pioneered this method to believe that it represented the universal key to understanding religious phenomena.

That is the mistake of Arians, feminists and, this writer believes, some German theology - especially Rahner.

This remarkable agreement seems to me to show how widespread is the mistake of attributing to primitive Christianity the Greek belief in the immortality of the soul.

It was a mistake of perceived talent or production.

We're miles off the top because we accept that each defeat is a mistake of someone else but ourselves when we shoot ourselves in the foot.

That would be a mistake of a lifetime.

It was a mistake of Jeremy to say that [he would not].

«I said it was a mistake of Jeremy Hunt to reject the pay review bodies but I also... said I can make no commitment now to find additional money to pay for that.

«Plastic bags are a mistake of the past — reusable bags are the solution for our future.»

While this would appear to push teenagers toward years of serious risk - taking, it is no mistake of evolution.

Failure to take advantage of this discovery is a mistake of enormous magnitude.

The consensus among scientists is that gluten - containing grains are a mistake of evolution — that is, gluten creates a perfect storm of the conditions needed for human disease.

The catch is, you can't appear desperate, as was the mistake of the woman (bike) in our first story.

This was the mistake of «American Pie 2,» and Herz and the audience end up paying for it here.

Once, it was a mistake of ignorance.

«The first part of it is the mistake of putting the wrong piece of paper in,» he said.

For charges brought for inefficiency, the arbitrator can only consider the following: (1) whether the evaluation failed to adhere substantially to the evaluation process, including, but not limited to providing an corrective action plan; (2) there is a mistake of fact in the evaluation; (3) the charges would not have been brought but for considerations of political affiliation, nepotism, union activity, discrimination as prohibited by State or federal law, or other conduct prohibited by State or federal law; or (4) the district's actions were arbitrary and capricious.

But they say that those were mistakes of the past.

Auto experts say troubles multiply quickly at dealerships because every unsold item is a mistake of thousands of dollars.

We can not be sure whether the moments were so experienced, as the result of his admittedly abnormal sexual nature, or whether in recording them he deliberately attempted to avoid what to him would have been the mistake of glorifying the soul at the expense of the body.

I've already blogged about how unfair it is to look at the number of people self - publishing while ignoring the vast numbers of people submitting to the traditional machine and not even landing an agent (it's the mistake of counting the top 1 % of one pile and comparing that to the totality of another pile).

They're not refunded unless there was a mistake of some kind, and if they are - they're refunded to the employer.

Not exact matches

Most of the mistakes that companies make are easily avoided.

The president said it was a «terrible mistake» for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from Mueller's investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

You're gonna make mistakes and have plenty of false starts.

Eric Roberge, a CFP and founder of Beyond Your Hammock, tells CNBC Make It that the biggest mistake most people make when saving for retirement is not taking advantage of their employer's 401 (k) match.

The tragedy is my friend could have avoided the SEO mistake that put him out of business with minimum effort.

In the wake of the Dollar Shave Club deal, I reached out to my own business advisers, at Commerce Business Advisers, and asked them what are the three biggest mistakes that founders make in the early days, that eventually hurt their exits.

It's just that he got so busy that he didn't realize how much time had gone by where he had not checked in with several of his contacts — an easy mistake for most small business owners who feel like every day is shorter than the last.

But then, to look for direct impact is, as others have observed, likely a mistake, and misses the real significance of the movement.

When one of our service providers made a mistake, which resulted in our service being delayed for a week, the service provider responded immediately with an apology and a proposal for fixing the problem.

For all the mistakes we made, one thing we did right was to invest in the quality of our content.

It also says: «It may have been a mistake to CC me, because I am the kind of person who forces you to spend a lot of time explaining why I was CC'd.

One of the major mistakes most companies make time and time again is cramming too much information into a small space.

If your business is stalled, you may be making a few of these simple mistakes.

Sure, it takes time in the beginning to find your sea legs, but that doesn't mean it's ever a mistake to trust your gut — and I wish that more of the advice I'd gotten had told me that I didn't have to say yes just because someone asked.

Conscientious employees won't make that same mistake again and will be more loyal to you because of how you treated them.

In the worst of times, it is best to communicate mistakes made as soon as humanly possible to every stakeholder that your mistake will affect.

While there's no mistaking that a pair of shorts makes you look like you mean business, Hanson is quick to clarify that it's unlikely that the Royal brood are throwing shade at the rest of the country.

Frankly, Cramer thinks that the boards of both UPS and McDonald's are making a huge mistake if they think this type of underperformance can be tolerated.

We didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake.

Finally, one of the single biggest mistakes businesses make with content marketing is inconsistency.

It's a classic «forest for the trees» mistake: We're focused on the details at the detriment of the big picture.

Studies show that up to 70 percent of unhappy customers transform into loyal customers if the mistake has been fixed exceeding their expectations.

When former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said last fall that his earlier enthusiasm for corn - based ethanol production in the United States was a mistake, he was conceding something that had long been obvious: the practice of diverting food crops to biofuels has contributed to food shortages and driven up prices for staples across the globe.

And, make no mistake about it, getting millions of views is very challenging.