Sentence examples for act of calculated from inspiring English sources

Maybe that's what Jeff Wilpon's three-paragraph statement was about, mere mimicry, a Steinbrennerian act of calculated showmanship.

True, a marital murder-suicide does take place on the way, but it's an act of calculated altruism, done for the good of the group.

And the only plausible explanation I can offer for its presence on our screens is as an act of calculated sabotage.

Despite being in the best condition he has known since being forced out of boxing by the US government in 1967, Muhammad at the age of thirty-two may have had suspicions about the limits of his legs and wind but his decision to invite Foreman to crowd in on him must be seen as an astonishing act of calculated bravery.

Passing a sentence of life imprisonment, Judge Michael Topolski described his actions as: "Not a loss of control, but a loss of temper, and an act of calculated, jealous revenge on an innocent woman whose life you had made a fearful misery".

Carbon footprinting — the act of calculating the size of your carbon footprint — is still a rough-and-ready business.

Du Maurier was mistress of calculated irresolution.

In a decision problem, a causal model yields a way of calculating an act's effect.

Whether the perpetrators have been Arabs (as in October's Hamas outrage in Tel Aviv which killed 22 Israelis) or Jews (as in last February's massacre of 29 Muslim worshippers in Hebron), their signature has always been the same: an act of extreme violence calculated to deepen the bitterness to the point where accommodation begins to look like treason.

Richard's act of mercy was calculated to reconcile him with Stanley, but it may have been to no avail Carpenter has identified a further cause of friction in Richard's intention to reopen an old land dispute that involved Thomas Stanley and the Harrington family.

Mean volume per drinking act was calculated by dividing TFI by the number of drinking acts.