Sentence examples for action and consequences from inspiring English sources

The heart of any moral system is the connection between action and consequences.

Dewey's analysis of the organic, cultural, and formal conditions of intelligent action implies that all reflective conduct issues in an evaluation of a situation with respect to future action and consequences; thus, inquiry is essentially an evaluative procedure.

Junichi Sato, the director of Greenpeace Japan, said in a statement that it was "time for real political action and consequences to be brought to end Japan's bogus scientific whale hunt in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, and the commercial hunts of Norway and Iceland".

Hence, the results of a Foresight process are not predictions, the results should be insights through imagery that depicts possible courses of action and consequences of such to make organisations and individuals resilient against future shocks.

By emphasizing the causality to which a free agent subscribes, in short, Weber prescribes an ethical integrity between action and consequences, instead of a Kantian emphasis on that between action and intention.

A major criterion for the success of a Foresight process is therefore the level of increase in awareness that the process created amongst participants to equip them with an understanding of the plausible alternative futures, potential paths of action and consequences.

We needed, basically, to believe in that chain of action and consequence.

It could not be further from the gung-ho gun battles where action and consequence have long ceased to have a relationship.

For many of these people, action and consequence don't apply; their lives are mapped out from birth, and nothing they do will alter that map.

One of the first things that struck me was the relation between action and consequence, which is different in the other countries I knew, Britain and the United States.

And it seems to me that this amorality could be a symptom of something deeper: a total disconnect between action and consequence.