Quite often submission to the Russians was a calculated act based on one or more of several considerations.
Perhaps some drunken jape which got out of hand, or perhaps a calculated act of attempted murder.
Of course, that probably counts as a calculated act of social transition.
During this time, reports detailing calculated acts of mass murder were routinely submitted to his superiors.
Shocked and unified by a calculated act of treachery, Americans within a week were at war across the globe.
This was not, as so often in the past, a calculated act of deception; the feeling was quite genuine.
Such calculated acts of mass murder constitute the greatest single obstacle to diplomatic progress, eventual Palestinian statehood and real peace.
Ellin had to wonder if the seduction, and their subsequent marriage, had been a calculated act of vengeance against his enemy.
"It's a calculated act of distraction and misdirection."
It's the kind of evidence causes the reconstruction experts to think it's a more calculated act.