Sentence examples for careful calculating from inspiring English sources

During the Balkan wars of the early 1990s, for example, both the local parties and the West were playing a careful, calculating game of "How far can you go?" The Serb forces besieging Sarajevo had enough armour to overrun the city, wreaking even more human misery; but to have done so would have triggered instant western intervention.

The choices we make regarding what to spray are careful, calculated, and measured out.

It needs to be a careful, calculated process coordinated with HR and Finance.

The oncologic results and the morbidity rates of our experience confirm that surgery is a safe therapy in most elderly patients when operative risk and associated diseases evaluation has been careful calculated.

"Syco's careful calculations have paid off for One Direction," he argues, "but Syco carefully calculate everything they do, with mixed results.

For me, it's Robert Altman's "California Split" (1974), with Elliott Gould and George Segal like the two halves of a gambler -- one wild, euphoric, hunchy; the other careful, inward, calculating, grief-stricken.

The cloud of adjectives that has come to hover over the Republican candidate Mitt Romney in news reports is familiar by now: smooth, smart, slick; detached, disciplined, dogged; pragmatic, protean, phony; careful, cautious, calculating.

When it comes to falling in love you tend to be cautious, careful and calculating.

BUT why does Mrs. Clinton appear equally careful and calculated when the questions are not personal, when the political burdens of sex are irrelevant?

Taking the advice of friends, Budge switched to the more traditional Eastern or shake-hand grip in the winter of 1935, a move that hindered his short-term preparation but produced a more fluent stroke that was still careful and calculated in its execution.

A careful internist calculates your risk level before prescribing cholesterol-lowering statin drugs.