Sentence examples for miscalculation as from inspiring English sources

However, there might have been a miscalculation as to how much American journalists care about their boss paying out enormous redundancy cheques.

And that's the rest of the play: an extended demonstration of Sganarelle's miscalculation, as his kept woman, Isabelle, plots to escape and marry her admirer, Valère, played by Joe Delafield as a sort of dimwitted 17th-century metrosexual.

The governor's plans represent a startling turnaround from the mood that existed four years ago when the deregulation plan passed the Legislature unanimously on promises that market forces would bring power costs down -- a drastic miscalculation, as it turned out.

The pale-green solid-wood tables are far too big and too many for the narrow room, a problem compounded by the bulky school-desk chairs, but there's something charming about the miscalculation, as if you've fallen through the looking glass.

Though that could ultimately prove a costly miscalculation, as the EU's top court will remain the arbiter of whether the UK is achieving adequate data protection or not.

The story suggests that both Ehud Barak, who was then the Israeli prime minister, and Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, made political and diplomatic miscalculations, as did President Bill Clinton and his aides.

If the President had made miscalculations as basic as those made by Khrushchev, and then decided to pull back and save the peace of the world, he would, even if he escaped impeachment, lost the better part of his Presidential authority.

Many colleges traditionally round out their classes with a small number of students admitted after May 1, often taken from their waiting lists, and miscalculations as big or as damaging as those by St. Mary's and Loyola are rare.

In response, Mr. Vallone's campaign workers accused Mr. Hevesi of making a series of budget miscalculations as comptroller and suggested that he had improperly tried to use city pension funds to invest in a fund controlled by one of his political donors.

(The two previous paragraphs previously contained miscalculations as to the pixel density, which have since been amended).

"The possibility of a serious miscalculation is not as great as a few days ago".