In addition, he said, "we have a compulsion to confess our miscalculations and misdeeds.
However, this was not the only factor in our miscalculations.
How do we disarm our impulses, our fears, our fantasies, our miscalculations?
I've found that our greatest miscalculations revolve around two assumptions: 1), believing that we did enough due diligence to have a workable understanding of the major legal issues associated with operating a food production company and a food truck and 2), thinking we had the time, money and help necessary to truly get up and running.
In a clear criticism of some past American national security choices — but with no specific decisions mentioned — Mr. Hagel said, "We have made mistakes and miscalculations with our great power".
The taxi wheezed with the strain of the slopes, and the driver honked to alert unseen vehicles to our presence — one miscalculation, one near miss, could send the little car over the edge and down thousands of feet, returning us to the plains below in a matter of seconds.
In practice, however, it has accounted for an almost unending series of miscalculations and blunders in our dealings with Pyongyang.
COULD there be a single phrase that explains the woes of our time, this dismal age of political miscalculations and deceptions, of reckless and disastrous wars, of financial boom and bust and downright criminality?
"Too many of our soldiers are paying the highest price for the strategic miscalculations, serious misjudgments and historic mistakes that have put them and our nation in harm's way," Mr. Gore said.
Professor Nathan says when the U.S. soft-pedals human rights, it reinforces the view of many Chinese that the United States is in decline, inviting miscalculation of our seriousness.
"A miscalculation in our strategy was to obviously ignore the poppy cultivation, and we paid for it with an increase in supply," Representative John L. Mica, Republican of Florida and a member of the House subcommittee on drug policy issues, said by telephone from Washington.
