Sentence examples for calculated to raise from inspiring English sources

In the 1920s, Edinburgh was definitely a provincial city, a description that if used today can be calculated to raise the hackles.

President Bush's proposals are also calculated to raise his standing in the Hispanic community and breathe new life into a rickety Republican Party.

A jake is a young male turkey whose presence with the hens is calculated to raise the ire of the area's dominant gobbler.

But in a six-page brief filed along with its revised remedy proposal this afternoon, the Justice Department called that "just a cynical ploy calculated to raise diversionary issues on appeal".

These two forms of intervention are calculated to raise the pay of particular groups of unorganized workers only to the extent that it would be raised by the extension of collective bargaining to cover them.

Noncompliance with the order which contained many items calculated to raise the bitterest resistance in the hearts of law-abiding Jews, such as the prohibition of circumcision and the abolition of the observance of the Sabbath was punishable by death.

This mention of Benn, yet another figure demonised by a hostile press and who also caused deep splits in Labour's ranks, was calculated to wound and to raise alarm bells.

Two pieces of Iberico pork shoulder, served a shade of pink calculated to make nervous people raise placards, come with nutty coco beans and a sauce rich with anchovy.

But some analysts said they feared that the raise in rates was calculated to mute international demands that China revalue its currency.

But some analysts said they feared the raise in rates was calculated to mute international demands that China revalue its currency.

This feels calculated to me.