Sentence examples for outdated maps from inspiring English sources
The search was further complicated by outdated maps of the mine's structure.
American officials subsequently said that the bombing was an accident resulting from the use of outdated maps and incorrect intelligence information, but China has rejected this explanation.
Most of these contributors feel there is something misplaced about a referendum, as if we'd swapped our GPS for outdated maps and were still asking directions for a place we'd already found and enjoyed long ago.
The accident that flooded the Quecreek Mine in Pennsylvania last summer, trapping nine miners whose televised rescue riveted the nation, could have been avoided if the mining companies had realized they were using outdated maps, federal safety investigators said today.
Regulations at the time of the flooding had called for them to stay 200 feet away, and outdated maps had led the miners to believe they were about 300 feet away.
The United States apologized, blaming outdated maps and inaccurate databases, but Chinese patriotic hackers — calling themselves "honkers," to capture the sound of hong, which is Chinese for the color red — attacked.
Officials at the White House, the Pentagon and the C.I.A. have maintained that it was an accident, the result of a series of errors that flowed from the use of an outdated map of Belgrade.
Sometimes it is a perception problem, he said, and sometimes the boater has an outdated map showing that the bridge is only 12 feet high, even though it was raised years ago and can now clear boats as high as 28 feet.
The outdated map also did not reflect later findings that taste buds, clusters of sensitive cells, have different degrees of sensitivity to molecules carrying more than one basic taste and that these clusters are distributed across the entire surface of the tongue.
Update: in my haste I used an outdated map as the basis for the graphic at the top.
As a result, Air Force pilots had to use outdated Russian maps during the early stages of the war.
