There are also serious internal problems that arose from China's own miscalculations.
At the same time, other Pentagon officials complained, BioPort's financial predicament is partly the result of its own miscalculations.
This moose-hunting Alaskan hockey mom was polarizing in 2008, but few would argue that she cost Senator McCain the election; the economy and his own miscalculations did the trick.
Dr. John Wheeler, a professor emeritus at Princeton University who also worked on the Manhattan Project, largely agreed that Heisenberg should not be remembered as a malevolent genius who was stopped by his own miscalculations.
A dauntless champion of legitimism and a virtual hegemony of eastern and central Europe following the revolutions of 1848 49, Nicholas in part because of his own miscalculations, rigidity, and bluntness found himself alone fighting the Crescent (the Ottoman Empire), supported by such countries of the Cross as France, Great Britain, and Sardinia.
Given the high divorce rate and the equally high failure rate of second marriages, I'm guessing her latest movie will bring in crowds of grown-ups eager to see their own miscalculations and missteps played out on the large screen against a backdrop anyone would be proud to call home.
Mr. Milosevic failed not only as the result of his own miscalculations and the desire among Serbs for a better life that could come only with a new regime, but because America's democratic ideals were backed up by Western military and economic pressure.
The moment is so brief it can be easily passed over and forgotten, but it is symbolic of a particular victim of the housing crisis that has gone largely ignored in most stories about its aftermath: honest renters who lost their homes not due to their own miscalculations, but to their landlord's.
Possibly mentioning anyone's moms out loud, even your own, was miscalculation enough to blow an afternoon.
