Sentence examples for faulty estimates from inspiring English sources

In one, a Halliburton executive conceded that the company provided faulty estimates, incorporating outdated information.

The city had a projected budget gap of $70 million, she said, from a slowing economy, faulty estimates and growing pension and health insurance costs.

He consistently overestimated the strength of the enemy forces (sometimes by multiples of two or three) and used these faulty estimates as a reason for inaction.Nonetheless, Mr McPherson believes that Lincoln was right in saying that no man could lick troops into shape half as well as McClellan.

The blending of the estimates depends on the residual magnitudes in order to minimize the use of faulty estimates in the control law.

The sensitivity analysis shows that even with faulty estimates, the general trend is probably accurate.

The group will look into the policies of the panel on climate change that contributed to errors in a recent report, including a faulty estimate of the rate of melting of the Himalayan glaciers.

The ranking Democrat on a House committee investigating contracts in Iraq released Defense Department documents on Thursday detailing faulty cost estimates by Halliburton for services in Iraq and Kuwait.

In Israel, the faulty intelligence estimates contributed to government decisions to spend tens of millions of dollars to supply gas masks to the entire population and to inoculate 17,000 emergency workers with the smallpox vaccine.

These faulty poverty estimates became the foundation of the entire development strategies and programmes.

As Greg McKeown notes in Essentialism, most people make faulty public estimates of how long a given task will take.

The most recent suit, filed last year, challenges the revised study and also accuses the rail authority of using faulty ridership estimates to make its preferred route seem more attractive.