Sentence examples for brutal calculus from inspiring English sources
A more brutal calculus prevails: without peace, prosperity and prestige abroad, China will have no peace and prosperity at home.
Stephen Glover, writing in the British magazine The Spectator, refers to "a brutal calculus: the greater the number of victims, the easier it is to justify military action".
More pressure for change comes from southern Africa and other pockets of extreme poverty where the brutal calculus of Malthus still holds sway.
But federal authorities charged Wednesday that the success their former colleague, Paul Bergrin, had in defending drug dealers and gang leaders was based on a brutal calculus that he had boiled down to a phrase he repeated like a slogan: No witnesses, no case.
The second, "The Brutal Calculus of Suffering", discusses media portrayals of war.
Entitled "The Brutal Calculus of Suffering", it contrasted the media depictions of American versus non-American deaths.
They're constantly adding new clients and dropping others according to a brutal "hot or not" calculus.
If we are bored by calculus, muddling through on a combination of memorization, technique, and brutal willpower, we may well end up earning the exact same grade as someone who sees the equations as beautiful illustrations of how the world works.
A: There has been a rival perspective – that in the circumstances of Syria's civil war, these weapons could hasten the end of brutal tactics in which civilians are sometimes the targets, and thereby, in the tricky calculus of measuring human suffering, be considered legitimate weapons for rebels to possess.
