Sentence examples for miscalculations for from inspiring English sources

Why he is coarsely caricatured as a stereotypical drunkard by the actor John Fielder in this production is one of many miscalculations for which the director, Jack Hofsiss, is accountable.

It was a calamitous miscalculation for Syria and for Turkey.

Too sophisticated for its intended audience and too shrill for the grown-ups in tow, "Lucky Duck" is a rare miscalculation for the New Victory Theater.

It was the king's most terrible miscalculation, for rebellion now became revolt and involved Spain in the Eighty Years' War, 500 miles from its own borders (1568 1648).

Like Iraq, the Afghanistan war has been a disastrous miscalculation for the western powers, which are having to learn the lessons of empire again and again.

"It was a miscalculation for us to disinvite Talent Zoo to our media conference and they're welcome" to take part.

[Page A1.] A Rare Miscalculation for Welch John F. Welch Jr. was supposed to be retired from General Electric by now, his legacy as corporate America's most-admired manager firmly intact.

A professional Everyman, Mr. Broderick does what he can — like the rest of the cast, he appears to have been left to his own devices — mainly by looking completely deflated, a miscalculation for a character charged with shouldering so much narrative weight.

Critics fear that Law and Justice's decision to instrumentalize the far right will prove a dangerous miscalculation for the country, with lasting consequences that will not simply be corrected in the pendulum swing of parliamentary politics.

In a strategic miscalculation for the ages, Muskie chose to take on the letter-writer and the newspaper by standing outside in front of the newspaper building and excoriating the paper and its publisher William Loeb.

Instead, a JMA spokesperson told me in an emailed statement that the agency acknowledges the risk of miscalculation for a large quake and that in such a case, the use of subjective words like takai and kyodai in a warning is the best way to motivate evacuation.