Sentence examples for greatest miscalculation from inspiring English sources
As such, this is the greatest miscalculation in modern British political history.
Said Poliakoff: "People said he wasn't sexy enough, heterosexual directors in the theatre didn't think he was attractive to women – just about the greatest miscalculation in showbiz history!" Rickman was a man with whom many enjoyed long-lasting associations.
If the U.S. administration believed that heightened sanctions and pressure would force Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons, "it will count as (its) greatest miscalculation, and it will block the path to denuclearization on the Korean peninsula forever - a result desired by no one," according to the statement.
I've found that our greatest miscalculations revolve around two assumptions: 1), believing that we did enough due diligence to have a workable understanding of the major legal issues associated with operating a food production company and a food truck and 2), thinking we had the time, money and help necessary to truly get up and running.
The other great miscalculation concerns the resources committed to action against the likely scale of investment needed.
The fact that Louisiana and other Gulf states do not receive a direct slice of the royalties owes to one of the great miscalculations in the history of states' dealings with the federal government.
That is a big miscalculation.
"Kaiser has worked his way through the archives and emerged with an impressive account of what he terms 'the greatest policy miscalculation in the history of American foreign relations,' " Gideon Rose wrote here in 2000.
A professor at the Naval War College, Kaiser has worked his way through the archives and emerged with an impressive account of what he terms "the greatest policy miscalculation in the history of American foreign relations".
As Fayyad considered these numbers, he puffed on his cigar and said that Israel, and not Hezbollah, had made the greater strategic miscalculation.
It was one of the greatest diplomatic miscalculations in recent history to imagine that the Syrian war would not affect neighbouring states.
