While accepting blame for any strategic miscalculations, he asserted that the campaign was at fault, not the candidate.

Compounding the material weakness of the Dutch defense was a strategic miscalculation.

This strategic miscalculation caused abrupt inflation.

Its troubled history is a whole-earth catalogue of bad decisions, strategic miscalculations, painful rejections, misunderstandings and lots of old-fashioned bad luck.

By announcing at a news conference that this would be his last term in Congress, he made what some Brooklyn politicians suggested was a strategic miscalculation.

There have been no strategic miscalculations, only tactical misadventures.

The third strategic miscalculation made by the retreating nationalist government was similar to the second one, but this one was about its own troops left behind.

Now that would be "one of the seminal strategic miscalculations of the 21st century".

One conclusion is clear: counting on a mutually beneficial strategic alliance with Russia as a reliable provider of energy is a strategic miscalculation.

Most damaging, Mr. Miller's supporters now acknowledge, were the Council-financed mailings, which they admit were a strategic miscalculation.