Laugh she did, at any rate, and those convulsive movements succeeded where her more calculated efforts had failed.

A calculated effort to get more business out of you.

A different line of attack; a calculated effort by a schemer who believed himself secure.

It also outraged the governor's lawyers, who suggested the move was a calculated effort to publicly pressure the governor.

"It's a calculated effort to avoid talking about the real issues."

That had been due to calculated effort on all their parts.

Instead, his position seems a calculated effort to head off demands for a complete overhaul.

With a calculated effort, he worked himself into a temper.

"What happened with the Dinkins campaign was a very calculated effort to use exemptions or to count regular employees in order to save money."

Genocide is defined as a calculated effort to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.