The advantages of this method are that the end result is very controllable and that the chance of making irreparable mistakes is reduced drastically.

Secretly it began to dawn on him that he had committed an irreparable mistake: He had permitted himself to be distracted from his real opponent.

It had been exciting for a moment, but now she wondered if she had made an irreparable mistake.

She remarks that her friend's first marriage, a false move toward freedom, was an "irreparable mistake committed at the age of ignorance."

I only know what I want to do may be an irreparable mistake.

Hanging his head in shame, William Harrod said, "Actually I feared I had made an irreparable mistake, and that no amount of affection could restore me."

More irreparable mistakes.

His irreparable mistake was not just to reject those offers but to respond to them with intifada and terror.

This very night, your Revered Speaker Motecuzoma has made one irreparable mistake, and he will make others.

Yet the Staff itself might protect her from an irreparable mistake.