Sentence examples for flawed calculation from inspiring English sources

Virgin argued that this was a flawed calculation and the bond should be closer to £600m – a point that McLoughlin now appears to have conceded, while blaming his officials' arithmetic.

The German decision to launch unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917 – which seems mad today, because it forced president Woodrow Wilson to enter a war he wanted to keep out of – was based on the flawed calculation that if Britain could be denied wheat imports for five months she would be forced out of the war.

But ADRZ's conclusion is based on a flawed calculation that weights states in a manner that mechanically tends to produce a high ratio of the weight they compute on same-division versus non-same-division states.3.3

That bloated estimate, which cuts across all job categories, also rests on IHS' flawed calculation of the cost of compliance.

A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency review of air testing in February and March found discrepancies in recorded times and dates of sample collections, flawed calculation methods, conflicting data and missing documents.

The monogamy hypothesis may be the first case of such a flawed calculation.

However, three of the criticised NGOs – the World Food Programme, Save the Children and Handicap International – all said the criticism was baseless and founded on flawed calculations.

Mr Rutnam, who took up his job as Permanent Secretary in April, also revealed that he had been banned from seeing any of the flawed calculations used to award the West Coast franchise prior to it being awarded.

Although the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had previously been expected to approve the reactors by the end of summer, significant delays are likely after flawed calculations in Westinghouse's submission "led to more questions," according to NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko.

To avoid flawed calculations due to, for example, congener-specific hepatic sequestration, it may be more appropriate to use blood or adipose tissue as a matrix to calculate systemicREPs.

The monitor, who tests random samples of loans to ensure that the criteria are being met, has flagged several serious servicing issues, ranging from the banks' failure to provide a single point of contact to lost paperwork and flawed financial calculations, but does not address individual cases.