Sentence examples for calculus from inspiring English sources

Yet sanctions' supporters persist in rosy-tinted language about their "signalling", their "pressure mixes" and their "changing the calculus of repression".

For rolling news blatherers, such slips must be the stuff of nightmares; their managers consult the Jeremy Clarkson calculus before consigning hapless Alan Partridges to North Norfolk Digital for eternity.

I countered that it was the US that had started it all – it invented the nuclear bomb and used it in Japan, when there was no military need for it, just the political calculus.

A Tory source said: "These are very volatile times, and it skews the political calculus on what a marginal seat is and what it isn't.

But the Ukraine situation has upended Lukashenko's geostrategic calculus by demonstrating what can happen if you defy Moscow.

Far from conceding any ground over the aggression against Iraq, he repeatedly argued that the same "calculus of risk" now demanded similar action against Iran.

"That would change my calculus".

Politicians are right to recognise public concern, though their enthusiasm for tackling the issue also owes to narrow electoral calculus.

Mr Mankiw argues that the calculus of progressive taxation is based on a confused utilitarianism.

And their wealth and income are at least as important in the calculus of courtship as personal tastes and sex appeal.Miss Austen was neither mercenary nor a snob.

Most of their 2010 harvest was over when the spill happened.Mr Feinberg last week announced a more generous calculus that will give affected oysterers depending on where their beds are—up to seven times their income from a pre-spill year, plus four times their 2010 losses.