(v. t. & i.) To calculate erroneously; to judge wrongly.
Example Sentences:
(1) 4.23pm GMT Guardian Washington correspondent Paul Lewis (@ PaulLewis ) has more on defense secratary Hagel’s warning to Russia that military exercises planned near the border of Ukraine could “lead to miscalculation”: “We expect other nations to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and avoid provocative actions,” Hagel told a press conference during a NATO defence meeting in Brussels.
(2) Britain's Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) seems to have badly miscalculated in discounting the political necessity of immediately introducing legislation to ban surrogate parenthood arrangements.
(3) Crucial to all this is public opinion: if Hunt thinks it will swing his way he may be making yet another of his serial miscalculations.
(4) Or, perhaps more accurately, he made miscalculations.
(5) These may be due to mechanical problems, machine failure, or user incidents (misprogramming, or miscalculation of doses).
(6) He said: “While the threat from Russia, together with the risk it brings of a miscalculation resulting in a slide into strategic conflict, however unlikely we see that as being right now, represents an obvious existential threat to our whole being, we of course face threats from Isis and other instabilities to our way of life and the security of our loved ones.” Bradshaw said the Nato summit in Wales in September 2014 had been dominated by the urgent need for change due to Russian behaviour.
(7) The top priority, for Hartgerink, is something much more grave than correcting simple statistical miscalculations.
(8) The prime minister promised to campaign "heart and soul" to stay in the EU if he achieves his new deal, but also declined to say if he would argue for a no vote if he has miscalculated and finds he is unable to secure the terms he wants from his EU partners.
(9) Using such tables an incorrect reading off or a miscalculation is not infrequent.
(10) The risks of a nuclear catastrophe – in a regional war, terrorist attack, by accident or miscalculation – is greater than it was during the cold war and rising, a former US defence secretary has said.
(11) Obama and his advisers badly miscalculated a lot of things and failed to make good and courageous decisions in all sorts of ways,” he wrote.
(12) The countries supporting it had hoped the military would enforce its rule in a matter of weeks, but they miscalculated: three months on the Egyptian scene hasn't settled down.
(13) Earlier this month, the Guardian revealed allegations that the government's engineering consultants , Parsons Brinckerhoff, had miscalculated the costs of a tidal lagoon project of the kind championed by FOE.
(14) In his Ted talk, he lists four of them: the western attempt to rebuild the Russian economy; the American invasion of Iraq and attempt to build democracy; the miscalculations of risk, which led to the 2008 financial collapse , and two decades in the US of failed attempts to reform education.
(15) Russel said the roll-out of China's air defense zone had increased the risk of "miscalculation and an accident" that could lead to conflict.
(16) Such environmental health protection should not be just a safety valve to "let off steam" if planning had been based on miscalculations and false appraisals--it should function in advance to prevent such social and political mishaps.
(17) And they will be eager to exploit any miscalculations by the British government or British voters.
(18) "I think China miscalculated in the late 90s, by exporting to eastern Tibetan areas aggressive anti-Dalai Lama policies they had been imposing for years in central Tibetan areas," said Professor Robert Barnett, an expert on Tibet at Columbia University.
(19) But Peter Ullman, chief executive of Tidal Electric, said: "PB has made huge miscalculations.
(20) The people need to understand what voting ‘no’ here means: we learnt that in the UK.” The prime minister’s big miscalculation, said Scarpetta, was that he believed that the constitutional reform was a top priority for Italian voters who were eager for change.
Misjudge
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Speaking to pro-market thinktank Reform, Milburn called for “more competition” and said the shadow health team were making a “fundamental political misjudgment” by attempting to roll back policies he had overseen.
(2) Carefull angiographic investigation can avoid misjudging the symptoms (stridor, dysphagia) and can contribute to an exact diagnosis thus preventing unnecessary operation.
(3) There was deep irritation in the cabinet that the prime minister had misjudged the mood of his parliamentary party and had single-handedly revived the fortunes of Miliband after a recent bad patch.
(4) Because of various manifestations (rhinitis, sinusitis, otitis, arthralgie, "red eye", neuritis, carditis) and different symptomatics the disease is misjudged over month and years.
(5) David Luiz was at fault, misjudging the pace of Ramires's back-pass and, having turned his back on the ball, was left to look on in horror as Mutch ran through on the blindside and struck the ball past Petr Cech, making his 300th league appearance for Chelsea.
(6) It hurts when Greenpeace loses the widows' mite , but it will be nowhere near as painful as when countries such as Bangladesh or the Maldives are told there is no money in the Green Climate Fund , the IMF or the World Bank to build defences against rising sea levels or storm surges because anonymous rogue traders and trusted financiers in New York or London have misjudged the market and lost billions.
(7) ‘Patriotism’ is a difficult concept to pin, and one man’s patriotism can easily be misjudged as folly or even treachery if we start judging based on a narrow understanding of the term.” Walid, a Muslim veteran of the navy, added that “even though we invaded Iraq based upon bogus information, that doesn’t diminish the sacrifice of Captain Khan and other American service members who lost their lives”.
(8) Had he been convicted at that time then I’m surprised the Israeli government allowed him to travel.” Asked if he made “misjudgments”, Corbyn said: “You’re putting a lot of words into my mouth about misjudgments.
(9) Then, after some pigeon hilarity - sorry, cricket, for misjudging you - Sangakkara is beaten by some extra bounce, the ball kissing the face of his bat without telling him and flying just wide of point.
(10) Hofer himself described Farage’s comments as a “crass misjudgment”, adding that “it doesn’t fill me with joy when someone meddles from outside”.
(11) They conceded an absurd early goal when their Scottish international keeper, George Farm, pitifully misjudged a shot by Nat Lofthouse after a mere 75 seconds.
(12) Arsenal v Bayern Munich: Champions League – in pictures Read more Arsenal’s extraordinary sequence of having reaching the knockout stages in each of the last 15 seasons was straying dangerously close to being discontinued until Olivier Giroud, three minutes off the substitutes’ bench, made the most of Neuer’s misjudgment to change the complexion of this match and, in turn, Group F. Neuer had produced one save earlier in the match that will linger in the memory because of its almost implausible quality but a goalkeeper of his distinction will be aghast to have misread the trajectory of Santi Cazorla’s 77th-minute free-kick.
(13) However Tomkins misjudged the bounce – Allardyce insisted there was a nudge – and Rooney let fly with an astonishing shot that hung in the air for an age, so high it was almost in the clouds.
(14) It was a misjudgment in the heat of the moment.” The forlorn-looking Formula One world champion muttered: “I can’t really express the way I’m feeling at the moment so I won’t attempt to.
(15) The lack of checking urine for ketones, the wrong feeling of safety after long-term successful pump treatment, and a concomitant psychological stress situation favoured the misjudgement of the clinical symptoms of ketosis and the delay of hospital admission.
(16) Many other examples could be cited of misjudged priorities and wasteful expenditure.
(17) The misjudgment may have proved embarrassing politically, but it was a money-spinner for UK arms manufacturers.
(18) 4.33am BST 64 mins: Altidore throws his head back in frustration as Bradley nudges a ball to him on the edge of the box, and the Sunderland striker spins, but misjudges the bounce of the ball so that his kick shanks high over the bar.
(19) It was just a really outdated, misjudged and heavily biased presentation."
(20) Will Dave emulate his old patron, Michael Howard, and sack Boris for an egregious misjudgment ?