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How to use the word calculation in a Sentence?

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We don’t want two strong candidates to shred each other and duke it out in the boxing ring and see the best man standing, hopefully grace, dignity, poise, smarts, calculation – because in the end we’re all wanting to support the nominee.

Kelley Koch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Hopefully grace, dignity, poise, smarts, calculation – because in the end we’re all wanting to support the nominee. donald Trump’s message is getting a little stale, a little old, looking backwards more than forwards.

David Oman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People felt that if they called it an STD from the get-go, it was going to create stigma, and because of the stigma of the type of sex that was occurring – oral sex, anal sex, anal sex between same-sex male partners – there may not have been the same kind of federal response, so it was actually a political calculation to garner the resources necessary to have a substantial response to be vague about how it spread.

Jeffrey Klausner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mortgage applications have been trending higher alongside lower rates, pending home sales are up, and builder confidence increased in January, interested buyers are out there. From a financial perspective, the decision to buy a home comes down to a payment-to-paycheck calculation, and lower rates may help to reduce the mortgage payment while higher incomes can increase one’s monthly paycheck.

Odeta Kushi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

First of all, gratitude for the kind of country he ran. Our borders were secure, we were safe, the economy was humming for everybody, interest rates were low, and attention was being paid to the right things, he ran a great country and policy trumps personality, but we've reached a point, and this is a calculation on my part, there are just too many people now who will not vote for Donald Trump.

Bill Bennett

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think they made that calculation that these sanctions would have heat and hurt the Russian economy very quickly, in ways they clearly misunderstood and overestimated, the sanctions certainly have made the Russian economy smaller, but not to the extent people had hoped. And certainly not to the point where the Russians were brought to the bargaining table.

The US

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But I know it's not an easy call. And so, I don't want to inject my opinion into that difficult calculation. Because I don't know all the facts. And unlike people who jump to conclusions, I don't want to do that. But if the evidence proves or seems to show that there are charges that should be leveled, then I think the rule of law should apply to anyone.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Because, I guarantee, Chairman Xi is looking at this right now, in terms of making his calculation as to whether his next move will be to invade Taiwan, i know that Xi is looking at what is happening in Ukraine and learning how best he is going to do this.

Michael McCaul

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Preemptive sanctions are bad. The whole idea of sanctions are their deterrent effect. We want to make the calculation that President Putin faces one in which he has an off-ramp so he can de-escalate, but if he escalates, he faces significant negative repercussions.

Jake Auchincloss

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That is 100 % of the calculation, what is the death grip on Republican Party right now is the idea of Donald Trump running again in 2024, and people not wanting to risk losing their stature with him.

Alyssa Farah

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Most of the deaths are not registered so it's impossible to do a validation calculation.

Bhramar Mukherjee

Found on CNN
3 years ago

[H]is foreign policy displayed a realism, a careful calculation of forces and… diplomatic finesse…. Stalin’s priority was not world revolution but, once again, Russian security and his own personal power. (Feber, 1993, p. 22 of America, Russia and the Cold War 1945-1992.)

Walter LaFeber

added by anonymous
3 years ago

[H]is foreign policy displayed a realism, a careful calculation of forces and… diplomatic finesse…. Stalin’s priority was not world revolution but, once again, Russian security and his own personal power. (Feber, 1993, p. 22)

Walter LaFeber

added by anonymous
3 years ago

The calculation of the Trump team is that will be too politically costly and that will deter the Joe Biden team from even trying, but a lot of Democrats will be unhappy to see Joe Biden not undo this, we're talking about a nuclear deal that prevents Iran from having a nuclear weapon, and you're willing to forgo that just because you don't want to undo some [ sanctions ] designations ?

Trita Parsi

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This idea that... so what if we lose a few old people along the way ? This is a really dangerous, dangerous calculation.

Mike Ryan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Not habitable at all, I would say, since we predict with back of the envelope calculation its temperature to be around 40 Kelvin, we have no clue on the actual planet structure and composition, although we can likely imagine that it has an extended atmosphere made mostly of [hydrogen]and [helium].

Mario Damasso

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Weight and balance has a factor in the safety of these operations and thats a calculation that needs to be made before a plane is operated.

Jennifer Homendy

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It is essential for the U.S. to quit its current calculation method and approach us with new one.

Kim Jong

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

First of all, it is necessary for The United States to stop the current way of calculation and approach us with a new way of calculation, what is obvious is that if The United States sticks to the current political way of calculation, the prospects for problem solving will be dark and very dangerous.

Kim Jong

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I'm going to tell the truth, to the best of my ability. Even that's hard, given the amount of information and the fact that I have said from the beginning I'm not a human tape recorder. You can't push a button, and I can't recall precisely, in detail, granularly, conversations, emails, events from 2016, but I'm going to do my best to tell the truth, without calculation of whom it benefits or whom it detracts.

Jerome Corsi

Found on CNN
5 years ago

For Trump, the calculation may be that 'this is where the CEOs are, this is where jobs are for my country, so this is what I’m going to do,' he may see this as a business conference where he can talk up the country and its resources and get more investment.

Michael Cohen

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident.... Is this not form?”

Giacomo Puccini

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

Plausible deniability has always been central to post-revolutionary Iran's strategic calculation.

Michael Rubin

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The fact that the companies have eventually implemented a legal basis for the transfer had to be taken into account in a favourable way for the calculation of the fines, for future infringements, stricter measures have to be applied.

Johannes Caspar

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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