The phrase "act of calculating" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the process or action involved in performing calculations.
Example: "The act of calculating the total expenses took longer than expected due to the numerous receipts."
Alternatives: "process of calculation" or "calculation process".
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.
Mr. Juhi, the Iraqi judge, said the 1991 killers spent little time hunting down those responsible for the uprising, seizing young men of fighting age at random and executing them without trial, in an act of calculated terror.
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.
It remained unclear tonight whether the settler was motivated by revenge for recent attacks against Jews in the territories, or whether the massacre was an act of calculated political terrorism aimed at provoking confrontations that would cause the peace accord to unravel.
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".
In a decision problem, a causal model yields a way of calculating an act's effect.
Many decisions apply a "course of conduct" standard in which related acts or omissions are combined into a single violation for purposes of calculating civil money penalties.
Conversely, where coital frequency is low, a 1-week time frame may be too short to accumulate the number of acts needed for calculating the proportion of risky sex acts.
