In light of the one-tribe calculus of interests, I should probably give these shoes to someone who doesn't have any.
The movie reveals, scene by scene, a calculus of interests; it features, very early on, an act of cavalier indifference by the Kuomintang, just to make sure that the Communist revolution finds its ultimate justification in the first reel.
The doctors sort through a calculus of competing interests.
In the calculus of western interests there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified.
For nearly three decades, the religion of technology and GDP and the crude 19th-century calculus of self-interest have dominated politics and intellectual life.
The authors hope to rehabilitate not only the spirit but the intellectual premises of cold war realism, which proceeded from the assumption that all nations, the United States very much included, operate according to a calculus of self-interest.
But it's seen through the eyes of Cromwell, who views every occasion with a calculus of self-interest: "If she could have brought Katherine to this same place, she would have.
Better to stick to the sober calculus of national interests and leave ethics out of it.
But, like Lincoln, she understood how change is effected in society, and she used what tools she had, offering a new narrative she might say a new "vision"—that was explicitly moral and, in that sense, extra-legal: beyond the calculus of power and interest, and firmly in the realm of right and wrong.
But, like Lincoln, she understood how change is effected in society, and she used what tools she had, offering a new narrative — she might say a new "vision" — that was explicitly moral and, in that sense, extra-legal: beyond the calculus of power and interest, and firmly in the realm of right and wrong.
