cometer
perpetrate.
This article examines the specific methods used to address the abuses perpetrated by governments and to reveal the truth.
a base de cometer errores
the hard way
The article is entitled 'User needs the hard way: eighty-six simultaneous studies'.
a fuerza de cometer errores
the hard way
The article is entitled 'User needs the hard way: eighty-six simultaneous studies'.
aprender Algo a base de cometer errores
learn + Nombre + the hard way
The article is entitled 'Learning the hard way: a public library's experience with CD-ROM'.
cometer el error de
fall into + the error of
blunder into
Behavioral scientists have fallen into the error of assuming that employees resent job structuring and autocratic leadership.
Australia risks blundering into a human rights mess that will exacerbate the conflict.
cometer errores por despiste
bump into + lampposts
Street boys like Slake, a dodger used to running away, do not, even when they are myopic and dreamers, allow themselves to bump into lampposts.
cometer plagio
plagiarise [plagiarize, -USA]
Interestingly, 90% of the students using the Internet to plagiarise had also plagiarised from written sources.
cometer suicidio
commit + suicide
The study also investigated whether persons who had consulted the book before committing suicide had life threatening medical illnesses.
cometer un acto de traición
commit + an act of treason
We tend to forget that to sign the Declaration of Independence was to commit an act of treason - and the punishment for treason was death.
cometer un acto violento
commit + violence
The violence was committed by a wide range of ordinary citizens, including psychopaths, conformists, fanatics, opportunists, & cowards.
cometer una falta
make + mistake
commit + error
make + error
be caught out
slip up
When mistakes have been made in invoicing or in paying a vendor, a credit or debit note is issued.
Let us perform a simple thought experiment: assume that a cataloger has committed a simple transposition error and transcribed YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER as YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER.
This has been taken a step further by using a screen editor to 'prevent the human indexer or coder from making syntactic errors in the first place'.
All librarians can tell tales of being caught out in this way, to learn of their error only when the answer has been produced: information on dance-halls when dinosaurs was asked for, or on the grey starling when something on Grace Darling was what was wanted = Todos los bibliotecarios pueden contar historias de cuando han metido la pata de este modo para aprender del error sólo cuando se ha producido la respuesta: información sobre los salones de baile cuando se preguntaba por los dinosaurios, o sobre el estornino gris cuando se quería algo sobre Grace Darling.
He knew that if he slipped up again, he could be shipped to a higher-security prison and lose many of his privileges.
cometer una imprudencia
commit + imprudence
be reckless
The laconic question weighed upon him with a crushing weight: Why had he committed such an imprudence?.
The prosecution must prove either that the accused knew his action was illegal or that he was reckless or grossly negligent.
cometer una injusticia
do + injustice
I'm not scared of the computer, nor do I believe AACR has done any injustice to traditional cataloging practice.
cometer un atentado
carry out + an attack
She also said she carried out the attack during school hours as she knew the boy would quickly receive medical attention.
cometer una tontería
pull + stunt
This isn't the first time she's pulled a stunt like this.
cometer una traición
commit + treason
commit + an act of treason
Guides to Thailand warn you never to stop windswept paper money with a stomp - the King is on all bills, you would practically be committing treason.
We tend to forget that to sign the Declaration of Independence was to commit an act of treason - and the punishment for treason was death.
cometer un crimen
commit + murder
In the novel the murders have been committed by counterfeiters, not by Lizzie, and Lizzie herself is fictionalized in terms of prevailing Victorian stereotypes of womanhood.
cometer un delito
commit + a crime
carry out + a crime
commit + offence
The two persons who committed the crime were apprehended and tried in 1964, receiving prison sentences of 10 years.
The stolen identity provides a cloak of anonymity for the subject while the groundwork is laid to carry out the crime.
Residents are being advised to keep clear of seal pups if they find them on the beach or run the risk of committing an offence.
cometer un disparate
make + a blunder
make + a bloomer
put + Posesivo + foot in it
stick + Posesivo + foot in it
drop + a clanger
drop + a bollock
blunder
flub
Since its independence 61 years ago our nation has erred, but this time they have made a blunder.
He is well-known for making bloomers in public engagements.
She somehow manages to put her foot in it and get laughed at every time, usually as a direct consequence of her unsureness of her own capabilities.
She's just always shooting her mouth off and sticking her foot in it.
After dropping a clanger, you are left with a sense of shame and you just want to disappear and hide away.
But we are all only human and I have recently 'dropped a bollock' as we English say.
Michael Howard has blundered again, and again he has done so by trying to imitate Blair while lacking his finesse.
He's the son of a vice president perhaps best known for enduring ridicule after he flubbed the spelling of the word 'potato'.
cometer un error
commit + error
make + mistake
make + error
be caught out
slip up
Let us perform a simple thought experiment: assume that a cataloger has committed a simple transposition error and transcribed YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER as YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER.
When mistakes have been made in invoicing or in paying a vendor, a credit or debit note is issued.
This has been taken a step further by using a screen editor to 'prevent the human indexer or coder from making syntactic errors in the first place'.
All librarians can tell tales of being caught out in this way, to learn of their error only when the answer has been produced: information on dance-halls when dinosaurs was asked for, or on the grey starling when something on Grace Darling was what was wanted = Todos los bibliotecarios pueden contar historias de cuando han metido la pata de este modo para aprender del error sólo cuando se ha producido la respuesta: información sobre los salones de baile cuando se preguntaba por los dinosaurios, o sobre el estornino gris cuando se quería algo sobre Grace Darling.
He knew that if he slipped up again, he could be shipped to a higher-security prison and lose many of his privileges.
cometer un error al escribir a máquina
mistype
German man finds himself in Montana after mistyping his destination on a flight-booking website.
cometer un error garrafal
commit + blunder
make + a bloomer
make + a blunder
drop + a clanger
drop + a bollock
blunder
flub
Library staff should be provided with the opportunity to see blunders which they occasionally commit as well as the laudable 'savoir faire' with which they dispatch some reference question.
He is well-known for making bloomers in public engagements.
Since its independence 61 years ago our nation has erred, but this time they have made a blunder.
After dropping a clanger, you are left with a sense of shame and you just want to disappear and hide away.
But we are all only human and I have recently 'dropped a bollock' as we English say.
Michael Howard has blundered again, and again he has done so by trying to imitate Blair while lacking his finesse.
He's the son of a vice president perhaps best known for enduring ridicule after he flubbed the spelling of the word 'potato'.
cometer un error mecanográfico
make + a typo
If I can type without making typos, am I sober enough to drive?.
cometer un error ortográfico [Verbo irregular: Pasado misspelt (UK) o misspelled (USA)]
misspell
We may misspell a search term, either through ignorance or lack of typing skills.
cometer un error ortográfico al escribir a máquina
mistype
German man finds himself in Montana after mistyping his destination on a flight-booking website.
cometer un error tipográfico
make + a typo
If I can type without making typos, am I sober enough to drive?.
cometer un fallo
make + mistake
commit + error
make + error
be caught out
slip up
When mistakes have been made in invoicing or in paying a vendor, a credit or debit note is issued.
Let us perform a simple thought experiment: assume that a cataloger has committed a simple transposition error and transcribed YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER as YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER.
This has been taken a step further by using a screen editor to 'prevent the human indexer or coder from making syntactic errors in the first place'.
All librarians can tell tales of being caught out in this way, to learn of their error only when the answer has been produced: information on dance-halls when dinosaurs was asked for, or on the grey starling when something on Grace Darling was what was wanted = Todos los bibliotecarios pueden contar historias de cuando han metido la pata de este modo para aprender del error sólo cuando se ha producido la respuesta: información sobre los salones de baile cuando se preguntaba por los dinosaurios, o sobre el estornino gris cuando se quería algo sobre Grace Darling.
He knew that if he slipped up again, he could be shipped to a higher-security prison and lose many of his privileges.
cometer un fraude
commit + a fraud
embezzle
This article explores the response to a rumour spread by the Internet that the LEXIS-NEXIS database P-Track could be used to commit fraud = Este artículo analiza la respuesta a un rumor difundido por Internet de que la base de datos de LEXIS-NEXIS P-Track podría usarse para cometer fraude.
In 1892 Klas Linderfelt, the then ALA President, was jailed for 4 days on charges of embezzling more than $4,000 from library funds.
cometer un pecado
commit + sin
sin
According to Shakespeare's age, if she had agreed, she would have committed a mortal sin and been in danger of hell.
Some men, by continual sinning, sear even the conscience as with a hot iron, so that it becomes dead and past feeling.
cometer un robo
execute + theft
In 1962, 2 people executed a large theft of documents from the National Archives in Washington.
cometer un suicidio político
commit + political suicide
It needs a politician to start the ball rolling, and none of them will commit political suicide by doing it.
