Sentence examples for minor miscalculation from inspiring English sources

The experts argue that the error effectively makes Coyle's widely cited study invalid — a charge flatly rejected by Coyle, who called the error a minor miscalculation.

The man so apt to eviscerate a manager for a minor miscalculation took his company into a debt of more than $7bn that it could not service and did it on the advent of a recession and a credit squeeze.

"Most scientists expect that it will turn out to be a software, or some other minor, miscalculation, rather than new physics".

Unlike many tragedies, there was no alcohol or speeding or sheer reckless driving to blame, but only a minor miscalculation of the sort that countless competent drivers make everyday.

The lone asphalt runway – which lies just two metres above sea level – takes up the entire length of Hulhule Island in the North Male Atoll, so a minor miscalculation could send the plane careening off into the Indian Ocean.

"Yet the minor miscalculations pale beside the film's unflinching depiction of the perils of heedless upward mobility that, for all the luxuries it affords, looks pretty grim".

The minor miscalculations on display here — Lynch's fondness for the aspartame phrase "his heart of hearts" (it appears four times in "Apparition"); his occasional flirtation with bathos; the cauterized conclusion of "Catch and Release" — do nothing to contaminate the expansive quality of this collection.

Some roads are less forgiving of minor miscalculations than other roads, but the Old Yungas Road in the Bolivian Andes forgives nothing at all.

This was not merely some minor tactical "misunderstanding" or "miscalculation" on Saddam's part; it turned Iraq into an occupied land, caused hundreds of thousands of casualties, a regime change, and, ultimately, his execution.

It was a major miscalculation.

That was a major miscalculation.