Sentence examples for By miscalculation from inspiring English sources
Both have promised repeatedly to explore confidence-building measures to help avoid a nuclear exchange by miscalculation.
During the cold war America and the Soviet Union at least established mechanisms to prevent a serious conflict being caused by miscalculation or accident.
AS BETTER weather and reinforcements have enabled NATO to intensify its bombing of military targets in Serbia, the Kosovo inferno is being stoked by miscalculation on both sides.
There are times when the commission in particular seems to regard good administrative behaviour as something into which it might lapse only by miscalculation.
Perhaps the biggest risk is of an accidental confrontation caused by miscalculation or unauthorised bravado.The stakes are all the higher since, though America takes no position on the islands' sovereignty, it regards them as covered by its security treaty with Japan.
In this narrative, the tragedy is a comfortless one, caused more by miscalculation, blunder and callous disregard for life on the part of both armies' leaders than by the celebrated brilliance of Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov who, here, rarely misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
As he described it, "a theory of unintended consequences by miscalculations, cowardice and ineptitude".
The flooding appears to have been caused by intense rainfall in September, possibly exacerbated by miscalculations by managers at hydroelectric dams, who reportedly started filling their reservoirs too early in the monsoon season.
Still innocents are killed, and massively so, whether by drones, by miscalculations and accidents on the ground or in the air, or collaterally, as the unintended but foreseen consequence of actions aimed at critical military targets.
Colonel Paul W. Tibbets believed that the miss was caused by a miscalculation by the crew.
How they did it is the story of one of the most remarkable Congressional campaigns in more than a half-century, characterized by careful plotting by Republicans, miscalculations by Democrats and a new political dynamic with forces out of both parties' control.
