What is "miscalculation"

Usage examples of "miscalculation".

Immediately after the admission of a certain amount of miscalculation, there comes a more or less exculpatory sentence which sounds so right that ninety-nine people out of a hundred would walk through it, unless led by some exigency of their own position to examine it closely but which yet upon examination proves to be as nearly meaningless as a sentence can be.

Darlene space rifle, their consternation upon discovering that the last active battle between the opposing forces came about not because of a Cassiopeian miscalculation, as they had long believed, but simply because one Texican had strayed, was captured and was rescued by a small Texas fleet.

To his discredit, I should point out, it was Kwame who came up with the bright idea of setting up our lemonade stand by the fish market, a miscalculation of a first impression it seemed Donald Trump would never let him live down, and over the run of the show he appeared to have to troubleshoot more than his fair share of problems, which is never a good sign if you mean to position yourself as an effective leader.

He has a twenty-eight-year pattern of aggression, violence, miscalculation, and purposeful underestimation of the consequences of his actions that should give real pause to anyone considering whether to allow him to acquire nuclear weapons.

The ignorance and miscalculations on both sides created by the lack of any real relationship before 1982 persisted.

As the president of the Council of Solons and the power behind Tyrenne Walsh, he had a great deal to lose if there were any miscalculations.

The porter, quick to cover his miscalculation, headed back towards Ballard, whose arm was still signalling.

This recipe had actually derived from a miscalculation in making Julia Child's entree crepes stuffed with spinach and mushrooms.

Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence Baylor Brown was going to supply answers or all the expos6s of, Washington's clandestine activities would be seen as mere footnotes compared with what he would reveal: the incompetences, the illegalities, the miscalculations and errors costing the lives of thousands the world over every year.

It was not until the 1980s that the two countries came into meaningful contact, and then the limits of their prior relations bred ignorance, miscalculation, and suspicion, leading to regular misreadings of each other's intentions.

I had too much to think about: like how it had been primarily my fault, through mistake, miscalculation, or sheer pig-headedness, that the _Dolphin_ and her crew had been brought to such desperate straits.

A century earlier, Pope Julius had excommunicated Kenzo Isozaki's predecessor for a lesser miscalculation, revoking the sacrament of the cruciform and condemning the Mercantilus leader to a life of separation from the Catholic community -- which, of course, was every man, woman, and child on Pacem and on a majority of the Pax worlds -- followed by the true death.

Iran, Chile, the Phoenix program, Angola, Cambodia, one monstrous miscalculation a few thousand body counts later and they're right there holding their heads up in Le Cirque and Acapulco, obsequious interviews in the Times and discreet dinner parties comparing their little black books with the other black tie refuse, even an expresident or two or their dazed widows, a few decorators, haute couture, any transient damned joke on reality while he's peddling the thing itself on the side in a poisonous little package like Lester.

In 1974, Saddam made his first catastrophic foreign policy miscalculation: he decided to abrogate the March Manifesto, which had granted the Kurds limited autonomy and which he had negotiated in 1970.

She said something about that - something about her fine brother - in - law having made a miscalculation, and if the rope hadn't been too thick to make a quickly running noose she'd have been a dead woman already.