Sentence examples for calculated to help from inspiring English sources

Officials at SAP said Mr. Kagermann's comments about acquisitions were also calculated to help Oracle in its legal showdown with the Justice Department.

The move appeared calculated to help the candidate of his governing Millennium Demo cratic Party, Roh Mu Hyun, by disassociating himself from the party's affairs well before the vote.

But on Wednesday associates of Kim Dotcom, the former hacker wanted by the FBI over download sites allegedly costing copyright holders at least $500m£320m0m), claimed his cartoon-like image was carefully calculated to help earn him a fortune.

The invitation appears calculated to help members of the documentaries branch, who have complained of being suddenly inundated by screeners of some 130 candidate films, sort through the confusion.

The unwary might therefore have reasonably expected the questions to be softballs calculated to help the candidates preen and prance, putting on a happy face for one another and directing their scowls and growls exclusively at the archfiend in the White House.

Your last budget announced that, from 2017, the federal government's share of hospital spending will grow each year in line with inflation and not by the previously promised 6% or more (which was calculated to help meet the actual cost of running hospitals).

(The $75 million figure is an estimate to help calculate the company's filing fee).

You can use an online calculator to help you calculate New York sales tax.

Some seed sellers provide online grass seed calculators to help you calculate how much seed you need.

The decision by Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate, the News Corporation, to close the paper, The News of the World, seemed to be a calculated move to help protect Mr. Murdoch's proposed $12 billion takeover of the pay-television company British Sky Broadcasting.

If she goes out to dinner, she conducts a Web search first to look at the menu and calculate calories to help her decide what to order.