David decided it would be less painful to pass the mistake to the customer than to confront his colleague or superior about it.

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The effect of the Rangers' depth and Tortorella's willingness to use it is obvious: By playing less, a defenseman is less liable to make a mistake out of fatigue.

WSJ: A Reason for Ranger Hope

President Bush seems less likely to make that mistake.

CNN: Nicholas Kristof: Running for the exits

It is less than a decade since the Tory government made a mistake that Mr Brown seems to be in danger of emulating.

ECONOMIST: Gordon Brown and the Bank

One mistake that the early researchers made was to imagine that nothing less than flawless, fully automated machine translation would suffice.

ECONOMIST: A gift of tongues

Whether or not Shell's bosses made an honest mistake in booking those four billion barrels of oil now matters less than how they handle what has happened.

ECONOMIST: Assessing the seriousness of Shell's crisis

It would be a mistake to create a situation that compromised his comfort or made him less likely to squeeze me all night long.

NEWYORKER: A Box of Puppies

The mistake is slightly more subtle: they would have paid a great deal less for the right to use it if they had asked first.

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It took less than three minutes before a genuinely concerned local approached and informed my travel partner and I of our mistake.

BBC: A little liquid courage in Cali, Colombia

Yes, it is a great advantage to be able to correct things quickly, but isn't it a greater advantage to not make the mistake in the first place, rather than have it ricochet around the Internet, and have readers think less of your publication?

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