Sentence examples for a flawed calculation from inspiring English sources

Virgin argued that this was a flawed calculation and the bond should be closer to £600m – a point that McLoughlin now appears to have conceded, while blaming his officials' arithmetic.

The monogamy hypothesis may be the first case of such a flawed calculation.

"He was a flawed guy, a really flawed guy….

The figure is based on a simple -- and flawed -- calculation: the annual marriage rate per 1,000 people compared with the annual divorce rate.

A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency review of air testing in February and March found discrepancies in recorded times and dates of sample collections, flawed calculation methods, conflicting data and missing documents.

The German decision to launch unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917 – which seems mad today, because it forced president Woodrow Wilson to enter a war he wanted to keep out of – was based on the flawed calculation that if Britain could be denied wheat imports for five months she would be forced out of the war.

Barack Obama used this kind of flawed calculation to attack NAFTA in 2008.

That bloated estimate, which cuts across all job categories, also rests on IHS' flawed calculation of the cost of compliance.

Many feel they are being asked to pay more in contributions for less in return, based on a valuation of a scheme that was based on flawed calculations.

However, three of the criticised NGOs – the World Food Programme, Save the Children and Handicap International – all said the criticism was baseless and founded on flawed calculations.

Mr Rutnam, who took up his job as Permanent Secretary in April, also revealed that he had been banned from seeing any of the flawed calculations used to award the West Coast franchise prior to it being awarded.