Sentence examples similar to a grave miscalculation in from inspiring English sources

Republican politicians say the contracts were a grave miscalculation, because they locked in high prices just as new electricity supplies were leading to lower prices in daily trading.

In short, House Republicans are making a grave miscalculation on Social Security.

But industry experts point to another reason for the price shock: a grave miscalculation by insurers.

We alone were reaping the rewards of some Parks Department architects' error, a grave miscalculation of how high a given tennis ball hit at such-and-such miles an hour could go, with the wind gusts in some such direction, and the phase of the moon on a particular Wednesday in autumn in Brooklyn.

Not only is this an affront to everything capitalism stands for, it is a grave miscalculation.

A grave miscalculation, or he might have just muffed it, they do do that sometimes.

"My message to Moscow is that if anyone thinks they can do these things without serious long-term consequences they are making a grave miscalculation".

That, however, is a grave miscalculation.

At a convention that featured mothers who lost children during deadly encounters with police, showcasing Mayor Rahm Emanuel would have been a grave miscalculation.

The authorities were happy to let him go, along with thousands of other young, tech-savvy Iranians -- a gambit that may have proved a grave miscalculation.

Turkey's EU friends – mainly Britain and Sweden – believe that the EU is making a grave political miscalculation in failing to embrace Turkey.