Sentence examples for a calculated challenge from inspiring English sources

That was a calculated challenge to the president, who, in his weekly address on Saturday, hailed the bill as "an ambitious plan at a time we badly need it".

On one occasion, when Kỳ came to I Corps to remonstrate with him, Thi turned to address his staff and mockingly asked "Should we pay attention to this funny little man from Saigon or should we ignore him?" Thi made this comment rather loudly, within earshot of Ky, and the Vietnamese politician Bùi Diễm thought that Kỳ viewed Thi's comment as a direct and calculated challenge to his authority.

"This administration has made a calculated decision not to challenge the Chinese regime on its dismal human-rights record," the Republican chairwoman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, said in a statement after Mr. Obama's remarks.

The risk in hiring an established risk-taker was a calculated one, said Eli Broad, the billionaire collector and arts patron whose $30 million challenge grant to the museum in 2008 helped save the faltering institution.

Koons, he said, "was the last art star to be cranked out by the Manhattan mechanism", a "starry-eyed opportunist", his pseudo-Baroque sculptures a calculated and obvious attempt to manipulate collectors through their desire to be "challenged".

Amir Khan says fighting the formidable linear middleweight champion Saúl "Canelo" Álvarez in Las Vegas this summer instead of a less dangerous, domestic challenge for Kell Brook's welterweight belt in front of 80,000 people at Wembley was a calculated gamble he could not refuse.

It is a calculated gamble.

Was that a calculated delay?

"You're taking a calculated risk".

It is a calculated rage.

"It's a calculated risk".