calculated to produce

The history lessons taught in public schools were calculated to produce patriotic citizens, albeit with a distinctive southern bias.

Dosages are therefore carefully calculated to produce the minimum necessary therapeutic effect.

The virus — in a dose carefully calculated to produce an infection but unlikely to cause severe illness — would be dripped into their noses.

This from the guy who just wrote that judges shouldn’t “do anything other than interpret statutes according to the ordinary meaning of their terms,” who ridiculed attempts to divine legislative intent from the “flotsam” of history, and who derided “consequentialists” who “seek to select the outcome calculated to produce optimal policy results”?

He recently described American policy as being calculated to produce domestic political unrest in Iran.