Sentence examples for miscalculation like from inspiring English sources

Mr. Rumsfeld said he had talked with both countries about steps they could take to help reduce tensions and the chances of such a miscalculation, like restraining their artillery to firing only in self-defense along the line that divides Kashmir, a border region they both claim.

She is also famous for her retro-hippie fashion sense, for enthusiastic partygoing and for occasional miscalculations like a same-sex toe-sucking incident after the 2006 Oscars.

Even Ms. Wildberger acknowledged that some efforts, like the skimmer booms, which were shredded by the surf, seemed to involve some miscalculations — like, say, forgetting to factor in high tide.

A few more government miscalculations like that can spell the beginning of the end for the current regime.

The election judge is empowered to exempt from being an illegal practice any particular act or omission by a candidate, his election agents or any other agent or person in paying a sum, incurring an expense or entering into a contract if it was done in good faith and was due to inadvertence, accidental miscalculation or the like.

The odds of a Lehman like miscalculation precipitating a sudden financial catastrophe and break-up seem to have steadily receded.Yet that is just the first hurdle.

That looks like a miscalculation.

That looks like a miscalculation.

This instability at the core of her government looks like a miscalculation".

Not only was this a dismal failure of imagination; even judged from a standpoint of pragmatic self-interest, Pataki's plan has started to look like a miscalculation.

And in the context of Saudi-Iranian relations, Nimr's execution looks less like a miscalculation than part of an emerging pattern.