Sentence examples for capable of choice from inspiring English sources

Four years ago, when Djamila began to follow Sharia, or traditional Islamic law, she was, according to French law, an adult, capable of choice.

Particularly in the final chapters, Ha Jin seems to be working through his own ideas about the events of that spring (he had left China only a few years earlier), using Jian as a mouthpiece: "I aspired not only to show my bravery to Meimei but also, like a free man capable of choice, to dislodge myself from the revolutionary machine".

According to the choice theory of rights, to have a right is to have a choice such that it makes sense to ascribe rights only to beings that are capable of choice (e.g. Hart 1982, Steiner 1998).

This is in particular true for social systems, which are twice complex: besides their "objective" complexity due to numerous non-linear interactions among its constitutive elements, they also contain agents capable of choice and within limits free to chose (Portugali et al. 2012).

I don't think any of us can "fix" all of the world's problems, but personal responsibility and commitment combined with being open to possibility can shift us from resignation to conscious citizens capable of choice and action.

Small-screen producers seem capable of picking choice candies from the glorious snack pack of the past without ruining everyone's sweet tooth.

The news that tadpoles are capable of exercising choice will add a new dimension to the philosophical debate over free will.

There are many orderings and sub-orderings, and there are therefore different kinds or levels of peace, and (for beings capable of moral choice) different kinds or levels of virtue, justice and happiness.[14] True virtue presupposes obedience to the true God.

Second, it may be interpreted as meaning that God made the human being capable of moral choice, that is, that the human being was merely endowed by his creator with the moral sense to distinguish between good and evil, right and wrong.

They are humans, living in a society and oh so very capable of personal choice.

It is only because of this that humans have the capacity for morality; if you can't choose, you can't choose otherwise, so creatures that are not capable of rational choice are not capable of ethical deliberation - that is, they are not capable of critically reflecting on how they ought to act.