Sentence examples for bad calculations from inspiring English sources
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.
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.
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.
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..
Most of us are capable of bargaining for a distant payoff -- a college diploma, for example -- but addicts are bad at this calculation.
Any tool that reads this file will exclude the bad pixels from its calculations.
But in a draft ruling the regulator said it was unconvinced by the company's calculations on bad debts, slashing Thames Water's assessment of £75 million of extra costs due to "additional deprivation" to just £13 million.
This is another calculation gone bad.
