Sentence examples for a calculated aim from inspiring English sources

"They shiver in the wind and throw out boughs with a calculated aim, which is to be beautiful.

"They shiver in the wind and throw out boughs with a calculated aim, which is to be beautiful," wrote Ronald Blythe of a pair of young ashes near his home in Essex.

Lurking behind this is a politically calculated aim.

The calculated aim was to win converts by displays of power and militancy that intimidated the populace.

Cameron called the referendum as a calculated gamble, aimed at silencing the Eurosceptics in his own party for a generation.

This indicates that intent is a calculated, purposeful act aimed at injuring or harming another.

"It was a calculated act".

Eliot Higgins, whose citizen journalist organization Bellingcat has done thorough investigative work into who downed MH17, has noticed Russia making a calculated effort to redirect blame targeted at the Kremlin and its proxies, as it takes aim at Ukraine's Western-backed government.

It is a calculated gamble.

Was that a calculated delay?

"You're taking a calculated risk".