The phrase "a phrase calculated to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a phrase that is intentionally designed or crafted to achieve a specific effect or response.
Example: "The speaker used a phrase calculated to evoke strong emotions in the audience."
Alternatives: "a phrase intended to" or "a phrase designed to".
Goldman Sachs, too, forked over $550m to settle related charges, neither admitting nor denying any wrongdoing in the matter, a phrase calculated to drive Warren and all of Wall Street's other critics around the bend.
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".
In public, British officials took the line that a "third force" did not really exist and that the killings were "black-on-black" violence of an unpolitical kind, a phrase deliberately calculated to suggest tribal atavism.In America things were not much better.
In a phrase nicely calculated to get the attention of well-lunched Eurocrats, the book suggests: "If Europe refuses to share its place at the table, it may find itself increasingly short of dining partners in consequence".Mr Sapir does not deny that there are different national interests within the EU.
Some degree of rudeness can be permitted to such figures as Her Majesty's judges, stipendiary magistrates or members of the crown prosecution service, although such attacks should be, according to Mr Rumpole, free of racist abuse, elegantly phrased and calculated to raise a smile, or even a suppressed giggle, from the members of the jury.
One reporter kept calling Bloom Mr Godfrey, a quaintly deferential piece of phrasing brilliantly calculated to wind him up.
He would prefer the phrase calculated risk-taker, but he admits that "to start a career in an industry where I had no clue what I was doing, that's probably on the risk-taking side.
If respondents were correct that "addressed and dispatched" means "reason-ably calculated to give notice," then the phrase "reasonably calculated to give actual notice" in §1608(b)(3) would be superfluous.
Every behavior is "styled" for the ever-present camera, every phrase calculated for soundbite-ability.
1) With assumption V k and θ k are constant, a i coefficients calculate to maximize phrase G. Values of these coefficients are: {a}_i=frac{omega_jmathrm{N}left({overrightarrow{x}}_j,{overrightarrow{theta}}_k,{V}_kright)}{sum limits_{j=1}^{N_v}{omega}_jmathrm{N}left({overrightarrow{x}}_j,{overrightarrow{theta}}_k,{V}_kright)} (39).
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