By the time Remo could envision Moesher doing anything right, it was too late and Remo realized he had made the cardinal mistake.

"Then I made the cardinal mistake - just this one time," he said of taking another tumble toward heavy drug use.

I never thought--" "That," said Jimmy, with sympathetic friendliness, "if you will allow me to say so, is the cardinal mistake you detectives make.

He had made a cardinal mistake: he had asked a witness a question to which he did not know the answer.

His predecessor made two cardinal mistakes, replied Mr Kravchuk: he formed a political alliance with Russia, and he failed to build up an independent army.

Alex's cardinal mistake had been forgetting this when she became involved with Logan.

"A cardinal mistake you can make is that things are going well and you jump into a new category when you haven't given a brand a strong enough base," he said.

Here he committed a cardinal mistake by revealing that the Egyptian government wished to withdraw from Sudan.

I made the cardinal mistake of all gigolos: I cultivated popularity among women only.

"The Giants are making a big mistake, a cardinal mistake by doing this," Collins's agent, Frank Bauer, said in a telephone interview.