Sentence examples for bad calculation from inspiring English sources

A very bad calculation.

Energy Transfer made a very bad calculation when, less than a week before the rulings, it took court documents showing the exact locations of historic graves, including stone representation of the constellations, and brazenly used them as a map to identify and destroy cultural sites.

Of course, as James Surowiecki pointed out in his live chat on Tuesday, "we know from history that negotiations don't always go the way we think they will," and there remains a chance that bad calculations could derail the negotiations.

Oversimplifications aren't merely errors: They can lead to party strategists and campaign officials making bad calculations about how to win over demographic groups, with serious consequences for election outcomes.

Again, not a bad political calculation.

That might not be a bad ratings calculation in our current trying times; sentimental escapism was a dominant theme among this week's best picture Oscar nominees.

Most of us are capable of bargaining for a distant payoff -- a college diploma, for example -- but addicts are bad at this calculation.

For West's literary career was so ill starred, so beset by bad timing, botched calculations, dark ironies, dashed hopes and all-around rotten bad luck -- especially when measured against his transcendent, utterly indelible work itself -- that it is worthy of a novel by..

This is another calculation gone bad.

The union wants Beth Israel Deaconess to restate its 2005 and 2006 financial reports to exclude bad debts from its calculation of the amount it spent on charity care.

The union's research suggests that the hospital included some $11 million of bad debts in its calculation of charity care in 2005, which totaled $67.6 million.