Sentence examples for Miscalculate from inspiring English sources

The intelligence community believed that without some intervention the two parties could miscalculate — and miscalculation could lead to a nuclear exchange".

People under this degree of constant pressure are, from time to time, going to miscalculate.

Given the size of China's population, it would be easy to miscalculate the numbers by a few million here or there.

For unless America is given as strong a diplomatic hand as possible this time, North Korea may miscalculate that it can again cheat and get away with it.

And the Islamists could yet miscalculate, as they have done before.

Might Mr Chen miscalculate that China's leaders would be too concerned about a boycott in the run-up to the games to try thwart an independence bid?Despite the furore back in 2001 when the Bush administration agreed to help Taiwan buy more advanced aircraft, ships and submarines, Mr Chen's government has yet to make the purchases.

Even on election day its leaders still seemed confident that disgust with Mr Mugabe's often violent rule was sufficient to level the playing field.Did they miscalculate?

"For more than 30 years, Saddam's pattern has been to coldly miscalculate the odds, with disastrous results for Iraq and its neighbours".Khrushchev was at least bound by a political structure that limited his conduct.

That could prompt them to miscalculate and provoke a military clash.

Mitsubishi has acknowledged that the software error caused it to miscalculate the velocity of the steam flow in the replacement generators.

Similarly, a carpet of leaves or snow might lead a robotic car to miscalculate the position of the road's edge.But as driverless cars clock up more miles, solutions are being worked out.