Sentence examples for calculated to get from inspiring English sources

It's all calculated to get more fans".

Similarly, the other question most calculated to get Christians in a corporate tizzy is blasphemy, which inspires appalling illiberal attitudes to freedom of speech.

And much of the anti-NATO bluster from the Kremlin is calculated to get the best possible deal in return for accepting the inevitable.

The lines seem calculated to get viewers to throw things at the screen; they're all the odder for being dropped into the middle of the film, like a skull and crossbones plastered on a blank mask.

And those interviews should not be anything more, given the leading questions, and the answers calculated to get on television by feeding reporters what it seemed they wanted to hear.

So the aim is to make sure everything you are doing is calculated to get to that goal and if something isn't working as well as you want, chuck it out.

It's all part of a calculated campaign to get the issue back before parliament".

"This is a calculated move to get the conversation back to immigration, back to what he considers his strong suit.

It was a calculated move to get Downing Street onside to head off any future attack on the licence fee itself.

Floyd worked so hard that we all had to decide about him — either he had a screw loose or he had a calculated plan to get what he wanted".

"We believe the N.Y.P.D. engaged in a premeditated, planned, scripted and calculated effort to get the protesters off the street," said Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, which is representing the protesters.