Sentence examples for single miscalculation from inspiring English sources

The champagne flowed when profit was strong, he said, but heads rolled over a single miscalculation.

"A historic opportunity for resolving the prolonged nuclear crisis is at the mercy of a single miscalculation.

The return of 1970s-era gas lines to the five boroughs of New York City was not the result of a single miscalculation, but a combination of missed opportunities, ignored warnings and a lack of decisiveness by city and state officials that produced a deepening crisis and a sense of frustration.

Similarly, Guy Ritchie weaves a nail-biting game of chess into the climax of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, an on-the-nose metaphor for the action taking place, although Moriarty does offer some exposition for any audience members still confused by the moves: "May I remind you this is blitz chess – a single miscalculation will cost you the game".

And over the crowded skies of Syria U.S. aircraft must operate under daily threat of Russian missile attack; a single miscalculation on either side could lead to a shoot-down likely sparking a wider conflict.

But the administration's preparations have been cursory.Many of Mr Obama's mistakes stem from a single strategic miscalculation: he is trying to do too much too quickly.

WASHINGTON — THE great irony of Barack Obama's political rise is that it depended on what turned out to be his single biggest political miscalculation.

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.

"We have these two hostile armies standing eyeball to eyeball, and it takes the miscalculation of a single individual to start something".

If the insistence upon a single, polarising question was a miscalculation, then the timescale of the vote amounted to carelessness.

Nothing is more serious miscalculation than guessing that just a single movie production company is the target of this counteraction.