Sentence examples for calculation that if from inspiring English sources

But there is no calculation that, if they flatten Lebanon and Nasrallah comes out of hiding and is given a microphone to deliver a speech, he can topple governments.

"They have made the calculation that if you put a smarter Cuba policy on the table, it will not harm us in the election cycle," said one Democratic Congressional aide who has been working with the administration on the policy.

The German decision to launch unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917 – which seems mad today, because it forced president Woodrow Wilson to enter a war he wanted to keep out of – was based on the flawed calculation that if Britain could be denied wheat imports for five months she would be forced out of the war.

Umunna's remarks are likely to be taken as an olive branch, if not a white flag, to the Corbyn side although there may also be a calculation that if Corbyn, the clear frontrunner, is to fail, Umunna's wing of the party must not have done anything to make it responsible.

And so it's hard to see this as anything but a cynical, desperate calculation that if floating a minority or a woman as a possible running mate would get some buzz, and serve to distract the media to some extent, then naming someone who's both a minority and a woman must be twice as good.

Prof. Joseph A. Grundfest, an expert in business law at Stanford Law School, said Anadarko and MOEX might also be making a simple calculation: that if there is a chance they could escape liability, they can afford to take a wait-and-see approach.

I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation that said if we fed polar bears the same diet they were fed in zoos, the cheapest option, just feeding the bears in western Hudson Bay which is by far the most accessible of all the polar bear populations would cost nearly a million dollars a month.

Your BMI, Body Mass Index, is a calculation that is used to determine if a person is overweight that applies to both adult men and women.

A calculation that raised our eyebrows is if U.S. endowment funds diverted 0.5% into gold and stock funds, there would be $22 billion looking for another 1,320 tons of the metal.

Green Party U.S. co-founder Howie Hawkins has been doing back-of-the-envelope calculations that conclude if 1 of every 5 Sanders supporters votes Green in November, the party will get there.

Then you listen for the quality of the response — because immediately you can see people doing the calculations, thinking that "if I give him too big a failure, he's going to think this is the wrong guy to hire".