Sentence examples for miscalculation could have from inspiring English sources

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A slight miscalculation could have sent a round over the hill into the Australian positions, regardless, and despite persistent rifle and machine-gun fire, Murphy calmly directed the artillery throughout the battle.

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Rather, and this is the dangerous part of the whole enterprise, Google Maps' imprecision reignited a long-standing border dispute that, with a few miscalculations, could have led to a real war.

It's possible too that it was a miscalculation that could have been avoided.

These adversarial superpowers have decades of experience with restraint, but now, facing each other over Syria, one miscalculation could make that experience moot.

It is now clear that, as in 1923, this was miscalculation; the market could have been balanced by quite a small investment.

Answering written questions by members of the Senate finance committee, he added: "I very much fear that miscalculation is something that could have devastating consequences.

Even a minute miscalculation in its speed could have meant missing a safe landing, and scientists had no way of steering the probe once it separated.

Miscalculation of the intensity of picking allowable could have serious consequences for conservation of wild populations, as fires are most likely at 10 20 year intervals.

Even modern accounts of the debacle hold Cleopatra at least partially responsible for their cavalier miscalculations, but this presumes that a lucid, unfettered Antony could have saved their cause by resisting her hubris.

When the Costa Concordia hit a rock near Tuscany and dipped into the Mediterranean in 2012, people around the world wondered how the captain of a cruise ship carrying 4,229 people could have made such a simple yet fatal miscalculation.

If the total did not reach 100%, this could have been caused by publication error or miscalculation, and needed to be corrected.

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