Sentence examples for calculated to try from inspiring English sources

In hindsight, some of their choices appeared unwise: Mr. McCain's decision to campaign in Massachusetts may have been calculated to try to rattle Mr. Romney, but it kept him away from several close-fought states where more campaigning might have helped him.

We calculated that to try out every combination you'd need to spend over 700 hours of gameplay completing it all!! Are there simply too many Wii games released these days?

"You must remember that everything the Vopos do is calculated to intimidate us, or to try to.

The study involved calculating parameters to try to distinguish the carcinoma samples from the rest of the samples [ 9].

Participants were instructed not to prioritize one task (walking) over the other (calculating) but to try and perform both as good as possible at the same time.

The life cycle cost of the system was found to be [TRY] 54,560 whereas the annualized life cycle cost and unit price of electricity was calculated to be around [TRY] 2700 and [TRY] 0.43 for each kilowatt-hour.

"I just think it's a slippery slope to craziness, to try to calculate what some madman is calculating about how you play a picture or a news story," said Bill Keller, executive editor of The Times.

They say it is impossible to calculate the overall economic effect of tax changes with any degree of confidence and thus better not to try to calculate it at all.

Bills to pay, checks to write, things to calculate etc. Try to teach your kids something they don't know.

Few have ventured even to try to calculate the total number of persons who were wounded or permanently disabled.

But Energy Department officials said they had carefully evaluated every project to try to calculate how much money the developers and investors stood to make.