"She says things that are kind of off the wall, but these are often calculated statements on her part, to register with conservative, grass-roots people, and that's very hard for folks who are not grass-roots conservatives to understand," he said.
"Through the calculated statements of its leader, Trumpism has become associated with racism, misogyny, bigotry, xenophobia, vulgarity and, most recently, threats and violence.
Maybe it was a calculated statement – the NFL's message that it is opening a new dialogue.
The contrast between the glaring whiteness of the copies and the ancient, honey-colored marbles makes for a powerful, and calculated, statement.
We calculated statement difficulty (P) by dividing the number of correct responses by the number of responses for a particular statement to calculate the proportion of students choosing the correct response.
We calculated statement discrimination (D = PH − PL) by subtracting a statement's difficulty among the low performers, PL, from a statement's difficulty among high performers, PH (Doran, 1980; Haladyna, 2004).
Once you figured that out, everything about her seemed so calculated; every statement, even a seemingly innocuous one, seemed poll-tested by a focus group that existed inside her mind.
She also sent Mr. Berlin account statements so that he could calculate the couple's commissions.
But I do object to an investigation characterized, as this one has been, by outrageous official statements, calculated leaks to the media and causing a feeding frenzy operating to my great prejudice.
Afterward, he made several appearances in New York, always telling anyone who asked that, yes, he really wanted to come back to the Yankees, all of his statements calculated to lure Steinbrenner.
Of course, you're absolutely right that the desire to build a "personal brand" has encouraged some journalists to eschew good reporting in favor of self-aggrandizing positioning statements calculated to increase their own popularity.
