Sentence examples for past miscalculations from inspiring English sources

Charles P. Korr, in "The End of Baseball as We Knew It: The Players Union, 1960-81" (2002), wrote that baseball executives viewed the labor talks as a "long overdue antidote to past miscalculations".

A man with a past whose miscalculations have cost him, Bachmann knows that he lives in a world where betrayal is inevitable: It's not a question of if it will happen but when.

4. What were the "lessons learned" from past mistakes or miscalculations in your efforts?

To allow itself to be pushed into a position where it can be represented as in some way a successor to the savage dictatorships of the past was a serious miscalculation.

Osborne has made bad political miscalculations in the past and this could be another.

Mr. Sayigh of the Carnegie Middle East Center noted that the Syrian government was accused of similar miscalculations in the past, like taking a tacit or active role in the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister, Rafik Hariri, in 2005 — an event that led to Syria's withdrawal of its occupying forces from Lebanon under pressure.

"It's bad news for anyone hoping that Hillary 2016 has learned from the miscalculations of the past".

But when Val kept her wire on during their important reunion dinner, we moved past marital decay and into a degree of miscalculation that leapt beyond any of her past transgressions.

Some past second-term troubles stemmed from hubris, exhaustion or miscalculation; others arrived out of the blue.

Yet much of the conversation in the past few weeks has been dominated by costly mistakes or miscalculations.

As President Gerald R. Ford's chief of staff, Mr. Cheney had a front-row seat on two of the most memorable debates of the past 25 years, debates whose outcomes turned on a single misstatement or miscalculation.