Sentence examples for calculated to destroy from inspiring English sources
You could not have contrived a scenario better calculated to destroy public faith in American institutions".
People hold together and will continue to hold together, even in the face of abrupt & unfounded charges calculated to destroy.
On the Staten Island housing boom that accompanied construction of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge: "A haphazard abandon that could not be better calculated to destroy the countryside if it had been planned by enemy action".
Professor Kugel is also an Orthodox Jew who found himself "hooked" on modern biblical studies despite the fact, as he said in a recent lecture in Manhattan, that much about those studies seemed calculated "to destroy the whole fabric of traditional Jewish piety".
In the arrest warrant issued Monday, the judges said there were "reasonable grounds" for three counts of genocide: genocide by killing, genocide by causing serious bodily or mental harm and genocide by deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the ethnic groups.
Every appointment he has made has been calculated to destroy the cabinet position to which the person has been appointed and most hurt the people the government has served and protected since the New Deal.
He pointed to the law governing employment relationships, which says: "The employer must not, without reasonable and proper cause, conduct itself in a manner calculated and likely to destroy or seriously damage the relationship of trust and confidence between employer and employee".
Cornwallis, in a move calculated to force his army to be able to move faster, ordered most of his baggage train destroyed on January 24.
The whole sorry business was calculated to make the general public feel that we are under attack by a hostile invasion of criminals who will steal our wealth and destroy our way of life.
This feels calculated to me.
