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He especially objected to an account of a dinner party at his house, at which his wife Ilena (according to Reich) exclaims in horror, and the whole table falls silent, when Reich "puncture[s] the evening's high-society ambiance" by mistaking mint jelly for sauce.
A Mr. Donald N. S. Unger, in criticizing a recent William Safire pitch for anti-missile missiles, refers to how the Aegis missile system shot down an Iranian Airbus during the Gulf war, mistaking it for a Mig fighter plane.
“Por baleia,” I responded, mistaking boleia the `lift one gives a hitchhiker,' for baleia a `whale.
Failure to consider the underlying pathophysiologic mechanism when searching for polymorphisms associated with stroke might result in mistaking association for causation [ 2 ] . We studied genes related to thrombosis because the importance of thrombosis in acute ischemic stroke has been established conclusively in numerous clinical trials of treatment and prevention [ 3 4 5 6 7 8 ] . We focused on genetic variations in the fibrinogen gene cluster because of the efficacy of fibrinolytic agents in the acute treatment of ischemic stroke.
Another liberal British paper, the Guardian , led its front page with a story beginning: "The Serbs did not want us to see it, but there was no mistaking the hellish fires raging in Kosovo yesterday as ethnic Albanian villages were torched by Serbian security forces."