Sentence examples for capacity to decide from inspiring English sources

At the trial, Eichmann tried to say that he was just a cog in the wheel, that he hadn't even the capacity to decide on one life.

Charrouf says: "Women regain the capacity to decide, to manage their income and to invest in the future by sending their children to school".

"It's our philosophy that each nation has the sovereign capacity to decide for itself what its own portfolio of policies should be," said James L. Connaughton, the president's chief environmental adviser.

"Any one person or agent or institution that has the capacity to decide which story is operative, to sideline or minimize rival stories and to prepare for the next regnant stories, is in a very powerful position".

Or was it when we allowed for a selective boycott that gave the movement the capacity to decide which culture exchanges were acceptable, and which not? Has this come back to haunt us now?

In the meantime, Brazil's energy minister, Edson Lobão, has tried to assuage concerns over the expropriation, saying this week in the capital, Brasília, that every country is "sovereign" in their capacity to decide on matters "as they see fit".

However, this can be overridden if a court agrees they don't have the mental capacity to properly decide.

"Assume for a minute that we have the capacity to actually decide the planet's temperature," Gingrich said.

NE drugs' addictive potential may curtail individual autonomy in a highly problematic way, for addiction clearly undermines a person's capacity to autonomously decide on whether or not to use NE drugs [ 30, 31].

Lynch thinks that it won't take long for savvy oil traders to notice the gradual building of the capacity cushion and to decide that there is no real threat of supply disruption.

That is, reasons for love are pro tanto: they are a part of the overall reasons we have for acting, and it is up to us in exercising our capacity for agency to decide what on balance we have reason to do or even whether we shall act contrary to our reasons.