Sentence examples for calculating effort from inspiring English sources

This is a cold, calculating effort to make customers out of children".

What started off as an anticlimactic needle plunged into his upper arm one night in Italy, later became what he called a "cold and calculating" effort to get drugs.

The lyrics in her best-known songs put her forth as a model of finishing-school tact and husband-adoring constancy who also happens to be calculating effort-versus-return in her head.

His concept often drives me to calculate effort versus return, but I'm coming around.

The rest of the film — directed by Blain with the harrowing calm of an intimate confession — follows Paul in his obsessive, desperate, coldly calculated effort to see his son again.

"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.

Democrat and Republican strategists alike have been furiously spinning the other sides' verbal mastery in a highly calculated effort to lower the bar for their guy.

We calculated effort as the approximate number of person hours taken for field sampling and processing of each replicate of each sampling method.

As many Puerto Ricans move away from El Barrio, others are coming in, often as a result of calculated efforts by both individuals and housing and arts organizations.

The judge also said the defense was partly to blame for its predicament, writing that Mr. Gerhartsreiter's "calculated efforts to court media attention diminish the argument" for moving the trial.

The bland expressions, hyper-fastidious grooming and starchy frocks of the models were vividly in keeping with tirelessly calculated efforts by the fashion community to resurrect the decorum, apparent tidiness - and subterranean naughtiness - of Cheever country in the early 1960s.