In hockey logic, it was a cynical calculation.

Or a cynical calculation that one must stay on good terms with the old men clinging to power in that great country?

Opponents of online privacy are making a cynical calculation.

The smug certainty the device would succeed was sobering in its cynical calculation.

But critics call the Governor's decision to limit his goals a cynical calculation about what it takes to win re-election.

All based on the cynical calculation that its supporters had no-where else to go.

But fortunately Mr. Bush can rise above any such cynical calculation.

But I think his actions, on the bombings and Lebanon, were more than cynical political calculation.

Labour's agnostic compromise was too clumsy and seemed more like cynical calculation to voters.

More gumption and less cynical calculation can help considerably.