Sentence examples for used to reckon from inspiring English sources

Lineages of kinsmen, with membership based on patrilineal descent, are used to reckon inheritance and succession.

Mastery of the techniques required is not beyond Iran's engineering capacity.Western intelligence agencies used to reckon that Iran had suspended work on weaponisation in 2004.

I used to reckon, before ebooks, that it would take a writer five, six or seven books before they had enough of a name to get on the hardcover bestseller list.

A few years back, the car industry used to reckon it cost $1 billion or more to put a new car into production and at least 500,000 would need to roll off the production line every year to produce a return on that investment.

But in the same period, 239 million tracks were legally downloaded and, given that the industry used to reckon the ratio of illegal to legal downloads was 10 1, that looks like progress.

In the Works and Days of Hesiod, Orion is also a constellation, one whose rising and setting with the sun is used to reckon the year.

"This is a difficult and very sad book, and adults rarely follow a literary author's career the way they used to," reckons Mr Stein.

He used to be reckoned more liberal than his predecessor, and gave an acclaimed speech on liberty last year.

Without it, people would have been annoyed about immigration but got used to it, reckons Mr Denham.The Poles' experience is both good news and bad for Bulgarians and Romanians.

The problems of Book I are not characteristic, being mostly simple problems used to illustrate algebraic reckoning.

One German idea adopted by Railteam is that frequent travellers will be able to board the next train and get a guaranteed seat if they miss a connection because of a delay.Mr Rausch, who used to work for Lufthansa, reckons airlines are 15 years ahead of railways in the way they manage their businesses.