fatal mistake

A man needed only one fatal mistake to end the game.

He was making the fatal mistake of trying to hold all his ground.

And that may be just the fatal mistake he expected.

"Especially not after the fatal mistake I made last time."

The effect was to make it his war more than the country's, a fatal mistake.

How had he allowed himself to make such a fatal mistake as to fall in love?

But then we asked him a bit more about it and he made his fatal mistake.

It was then that I made what might have been a fatal mistake.

Of course, it may be a fatal mistake to think that she can ever read him right.

At first, Michael thought he'd made a terrible and perhaps fatal mistake.

I could have kicked myself because of my nearly fatal mistake.

Even then, those who opposed him made one fatal mistake.

Which uncle had told him that was a fatal mistake?

"I made the almost fatal mistake of going," she said.

Never make the fatal mistake of being polite to them.

"Make the other guy commit himself, and maybe force him into making a fatal mistake."

Some of the force was landed late or in the wrong place, both fatal mistakes.

But long hours of thought had convinced him that the one fatal mistake was to do nothing.

It had made a fatal mistake in growing with such abandon during its early days.

That gave him a fighting chance of not making a fatal mistake, and he smiled.

The other candidates had made the fatal mistake of discussing important issues.

This turns out to be a fatal mistake for her, because she is accidentally shot by Michael while getting them.

According to Castro, this was the fatal mistake in the operation.

Perhaps he had indeed saved them from making fatal mistakes in their anger.

She half turned to look at the figure beside her and this proved a near fatal mistake.