Sentence examples for a calculated strike from inspiring English sources

(It was a calculated strike: in a proudly scrappy genre like punk-pop, the words went straight for the jugular).

(It was a calculated strike: In such a proudly scrappy genre as punk-pop, the words went straight for the jugular).

In prose that wouldn't disgrace the King James Bible, Paul Kelly warns of "a calculated strike by parliaments and anti-discrimination boards using the cover of same-sex justice to achieve a quantum reduction in religious freedom and a pivotal change in the norms of our society".

Midway through the book, an actual disaster — not unlike one of the "worst-case-scenarios" he has calculated — strikes the city in the form of a category-three hurricane, leaving much of it underwater.

And in all fairness, its negative reputation as a calculated tearjerker strikes me as disingenuous.

The United States decision to support the Northern Alliance is part of a calculated strategy to accelerate the collapse of the Taliban by striking at it from all sides.

As he said to Truman Capote, in a phrase calculated to strike panic into all those who believe that a new Nikon, like a new set of golf clubs, will magically improve their game, "I hate cameras".

They call it their crusade.Laskar Jihad emotively claims that its enemy are "RMS rebels", a name calculated to strike dread into Muslim hearts.

"That's a calculated strategy.

Talk about a calculated risk.

We take a calculated risk.