Sentence examples for advantage-seeking from inspiring English sources

Even young children show this relative advantage-seeking behaviour.

After which, speaker and hearers alike go back to the same old round of buying and selling, laboring and advantage-seeking.

But it's impossible to imagine any competitive sport or social practice in which some forms of advantage-seeking aren't defined as cheating and sanctioned accordingly.

In contrast, contractualism represents principles of justice as principles that would be agreed to individuals who are not only advantage-seeking but also "reasonable," in the sense that they are seeking terms of cooperation that can be justified to all of the parties as "free and equal citizens" (Rawls 1993 48 544).

Networking has long struck me as an activity undertaken by advantage seeking self-promoters and networks as suspicious mechanisms for excluding people.

With three months before the first voting begins, Mr. Romney and his aides worked aggressively to turn Mr. Christie's decision into their advantage, seeking to position him as the strongest challenger to President Obama.

The practical advantages sought were higher resolution for the user and greater difficulty in jamming for the enemy.

Mr. Kerry co-sponsored an amendment at the time that would have undermined some of the rate caps the legislation sought to impose and would have retained programming advantages sought by big cable and content providers.

In most cases, the advantages sought were offset by the difficulties encountered, and the tilt rotor, the vectored jet, and especially the helicopter have remained the most successful means to vertical flight.

Within the auction process, any action taken by the board must be reasonably related to the threat posed or reasonable in relation to the advantage sought, see Mills Acquisition Co. v. Macmillan, Inc., Del. Supr. 559 A.2d 1288 19888 (1288 1988

One can therefore conclude that access to information resources aside, there is a dichotomy between the advantages sought in relations with public and private sector organizations.