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reckoning

(= calculation) problem solving that involves numbers or quantities a bill for an amount due (= count, counting) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order the counting continued for several hours

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Simple sentences

In your reckoning, what accounts for these phenomena?
You're off in your reckoning.

Movie subtitles

A man of science, who sought to create a man after his own image, without reckoning upon God.
The hour of reckoning is at hand.
The day of reckoning is mighty close.
Sounds like dead reckoning, sir.
Take from them now the sense of reckoning, lest the opposed numbers pluck their hearts from them.
You've chosen life. and that's as it should be. whatever the reckoning.
Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatched, cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, no reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head.
What with chronometers that haven't been checked for seven months and Spanish charts that aren't to be trusted we can be 300 miles out of our reckoning.
When 3 men take off in a rocket and only one comes back in our reckoning that leaves minus 2.
He has decided to forsake a situation too difficult for him to contend with and has asked us for a final reckoning tonight at the Sphinx.
More in misery than all, at reckoning.
The hour of reckoning has come.
I make our position here by dead reckoning.
There are many troublesome issues between us, which call for a reckoning.
What a reckoning there'll be when we meet.
By my reckoning, the first port from which we can expect help is Timor in the Dutch East Indies, some 3500 miles away.
Reckoning by our share of it, maybe you're not getting the right price for the stuff.
You know as well as I, Peralta. we cannot keep Northern Europe in submission. until we have a reckoning with England.
My father went from 23 and a half degrees north, by 5 west using dead reckoning to approximately 5 degrees and 30 minutes west.
Approximately! Dead reckoning!
Dead reckoning.
And nothing too wrong with this dead reckoning navigation, except maybe the name.
By my reckoning we should be about here, just short of our planned position.
The hour of reckoning isn't far.
Oh, she's sort of a combination of Sherlock Holmes and the Day of Reckoning.
There will be a reckoning.
O, weary reckoning.
All the fools will come to reason. The day of reckoning will come.
I've been reckoning it up. They must have been empty 40 years now.
By my reckoning, there be about 1000 horse and 2000 afoot.
You're about due, by my reckoning.
Well, by my reckoning he. he wrote the letter about a week ago, so it's taken Jack that long to get here.
Our moment of reckoning will come at fort Zindeneuf.
After dinner comes the reckoning!
His own day of reckoning with himself.
It's the day of reckoning.

News and current affairs

For the really hard work is only now beginning: dealing with all the internal practical and political problems that these enlargements will bring, as well as reckoning with countries in the membership waiting rooms, in particular Russia.
But even as short-term interest rates began to rise, the day of reckoning was postponed, as new borrowers could obtain fixed-rate mortgages at interest rates that were not increasing.
June 4 was the day of reckoning in Dodge City East.
So be it: a moral, and perhaps legal, reckoning must await the return of economic growth.
Now comes the reckoning.
Although the current governing coalition, consisting of conservatives and populists, has been successful, the real reckoning for Hungary's right may still be yet to come.
Therefore we must come to terms with history, particularly in the Baltic Sea region, where such a reckoning is a fundamental precondition for building mutual confidence and cooperation.
Too many Europeans are collecting too many benefits, but so far governments have mostly ducked the issue, taking on massive debt in order to postpone the reckoning.
By any reckoning, this is an important industry that should not suffer from overregulation.
Indeed, Zimbabwe's elderly President Robert Mugabe, who is 79, must now be reckoning with the inevitability of his own political demise.
The IMF board must learn that muzzling the IMF staff contributes to crisis by postponing a reckoning.
We could only conjecture what would have happened if it had not postponed the day of reckoning for so long - or if it had tried to put it off further.
By everyone's reckoning, Bulgaria complied and now expects the EU to keep its part of the bargain.
With the end of Saddam's regime, Iraq faces a reckoning for decades of physical brutality and cultural intimidation.
Abandoning austerity out of fear that financial markets might be short-sighted would only postpone the day of reckoning, because debt ratios would increase in the long run.
So reckoning with the country's global impact has been added to an already complex policy agenda, at a point when most countries have the luxury of maintaining a largely domestic focus.
Fifth, external financial assistance cannot postpone the day of reckoning forever.
Scrapping the referendum simply postpones the day of reckoning and raises the ultimate costs to be paid by Greece's new leadership.
Russia has always felt looked down upon by western European powers, and India is still reckoning with a legacy of colonial humiliation.
Indian cuisine, spreading around the world, raises Indian culture higher in people's reckoning; the way to foreigners' hearts is through their palates.
The tribunal and the local courts imprisoned 13 of those who gave the orders, as well as 17 execution-squad members; 11 more men, four of them leaders, are facing their reckoning.
Economists, as opposed to those who make their living gambling on stocks, make no claim to being able to predict when the day of reckoning will come, much less identifying the event that will bring down the house of cards.
The district is poor by any reckoning, with 100,000 people crammed into shabby corrugated iron and tarpaulin-covered huts along miles of dirt pathways and hillsides.
These plebiscites would become a reckoning for national governments on their crisis policies, which no sound-minded government will want.
This may cow some of Syria's civilian population in the short term, but it will serve only to exacerbate popular rage, and thus to increase the prospect of a bloody reckoning with Assad and his cronies down the line.

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