Sentence examples for calculated wrongly from inspiring English sources

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Essentially Facebook's line is that it believed the data had been deleted — and presumably, therefore, it calculated (wrongly) that it didn't need to inform users because it had made the leak problem go away via its own backchannels.

This might be a replay of the July 1914 events, when Berlin calculated, wrongly that London would stay on the sidelines if Germany went to war against France and Russia.

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[Laughing.]…I calculated money wrongly.

The Social Security Administration said the nuns' benefits were wrongly calculated under a 1978 regulation, a lawyer for the nuns said; the agency refused to comment.

The New Jersey Department of Corrections has reviewed the sentences of more than 100 inmates since a court found last month that a prisoner had served two years more than he should have because his release date had been wrongly calculated.

The strikers' main demand is that the government-owned company, the Orinoco Steelworks, also known as Sidor, pay millions of dollars in bonuses and other benefits they say were wrongly calculated.

The transport secretary said the investigation by Mr Laidlaw - who will give evidence to the House of Commons Transport Select Committee on 18 December - found department officials "wrongly calculated the amount of risk capital bidders would have to offer to guarantee their franchise proposals".

A report by the Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration says the irs wrongly told 11,000 individual taxpayers they had incorrectly calculated penalties for underpayment of their estimated taxes in 2003 and 2004.

This is interesting: £1.3bn is saved by the DWP, not because people don't claim what they're entitled to, but because people do claim and the department calculates their entitlement wrongly.

The school board concluded that there was no need for more money because the fund was wrongly calculating the average salary on which those retirees' pensions were based; for most, it's the average of their final four years of service.

The base case estimate of this cost (£414) was calculated on the assumption that women wrongly identified as depressed would receive all of the supportive care associated with structured psychological therapy before being identified as not depressed.

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