Sentence examples for basic miscalculation from inspiring English sources

The Americans arrived to start the pour on 8 May, as they were meant to do, but almost as soon as they started, they realised there had been a very basic miscalculation: they didn't have enough resin.

While the US remained a "friend and important partner", Bashir said, "any other country that would ever act on the assumption that it has the might, and mimic unilateralism of any sorts, will find, at least as far as Pakistan is concerned, that it has made a basic miscalculation".

If the President had made miscalculations as basic as those made by Khrushchev, and then decided to pull back and save the peace of the world, he would, even if he escaped impeachment, lost the better part of his Presidential authority.

This was a miscalculation.

That was a miscalculation.

That's another miscalculation.

Sorry, no, slight miscalculation.

That looks like a miscalculation.

That would be another miscalculation.

It's a dangerous miscalculation.

This was a Turkish miscalculation".