Sentence examples for error and miscalculation from inspiring English sources

They'll decide whether the crisis stands as an example of cool leadership under pressure or a cascade of error and miscalculation.

For any educated European of Mitterrand's age, the connection between date, place and the reminder of a historic catastrophe precipitated by political error and miscalculation leaped to the eye.

Federal officials said the cuts might be necessary because of a $250 million shortfall that resulted from government accounting errors and miscalculations.

In addition, BP's contingency plan for dealing with a catastrophic oil spill contained many errors and miscalculations, according to an analysis by the Associated Press.

This work is a detailed account of the first month of World War I, and it vividly describes the series of military errors and miscalculations that led to the ensuing stalemate of trench warfare.

"If we are wrong, how quickly can we fix this and at what cost?" If the speed and cost for fixing errors and miscalculations are acceptable, by all means proceed with agility, aim to be first to market, or launch minimally viable products.

Most every entrepreneur can provide a litany of errors and miscalculations.

These were important customers of the telcos, so they rendered more acute what was already under way as a result of monetary errors and miscalculations.

According to Tuchman, a series of heedless errors and miscalculations by European leaders in the early stages of the continental conflict – an inexorable "march of folly" – helped to bring about immense carnage.

The potential for mistake and miscalculation remains relatively high.

It is hard to imagine an arrangement more vulnerable to mistake and miscalculation.