Sentence examples for grievous miscalculation from inspiring English sources

This turned out to be a grievous miscalculation that overlooked all the other variables – from incentive to win to sensitivity to cost – that affect success in warfare.

If Saddam Hussein persists in his refusal to destroy Iraq's Samoud missiles, as weapons inspectors have dictated, he will be making a grievous miscalculation.

He was appalled to find his country, largely through his own grievous miscalculations, at war with Britain.

But the government makes grievous miscalculations with children, too.

Many in the West have been making some grievous miscalculations in framing these events.

It's a dangerous miscalculation.

This was a serious miscalculation.

It was a serious miscalculation.

And I think was a severe miscalculation.

If so, it was a serious miscalculation.

But Mr. Lowenstein is less interested in garden-variety arrogance than in the business theories that led to such grievous, destructive miscalculations.