Sentence examples for calculated to break from inspiring English sources

But it's not just the comedy lifestyle that's a killer: the artform itself is peculiarly calculated to break the spirit.

Using embroidery, alabaster, ebony and mother-of-pearl, porcelain, silver and wood inlay — the last adapted to make his jigsaw-like paintings — he created an array of works calculated to break down the barriers between traditional crafts and contemporary artistic expression.

This relationship, they argue, was calculated to break the complex feedback loop between poverty and illness and to imagine the eradication of pauperism without interference in the free market.

My ability to take calculated risks to break stories that I believe to be important owes a huge amount to the fact that I grew up and was trained in newspapers.

The proportions of each nucleotide (A, T, C, G) in an interval surrounding fragment start sites (+/- 25 bp) were calculated to examine if the breaks in cell-free DNA are random and independent of the underlying sequence.

As they are long-lived birds, they may cover enormous distances during their lives; one record-breaking Manx shearwater is calculated to have flown 8 million km (5 million miles) during its over-50 year lifespan.

Mr. Kritzman calculates that just to break even with the index fund, net of all expenses, the actively managed fund would have to outperform it by an average of 4.3 percentage points a year on a pre-expense basis.

They are an entirely calculated wrecking ball, intended to break up local families of schools and destroy local education authorities.

- pNN50 : Percentage of differences between successive RR intervals that are greater than 50 ms. Frequency domain measures were calculated using the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to break down the time series to its underlying periodic function.

The film is then tested to breaking at a stretch rate of 5 mm/min, with data collection at 30 Hz to measure the film's load in order to calculate stress, strain, and energy to break using MTS's TestWorks 4, 2001. 1 All C solid-state NMR data were collected on a 400 MHz Varian Wide-Bore instrument using a 1.6 mm solids triple resonance probe.

The REBO interatomic potential has been recently utilized to calculate the breaking force of monolayer MoS2 with VS defects [17] and has been demonstrated to be more effective in simulating the elastic behavior of monolayer MoS2 [22] than other interatomic potentials such as consistent valence force field (CVFF) and Stillinger-Weber (SW), under a small deformation (tensile strain ε < 5%%).