Sentence examples for causing a decision from inspiring English sources

In a December ruling that was first disclosed this month, the union's ethical practices compliance officer, Barbara Deinhardt, found that Ms. Roberts had violated the ethics code, which bars a union officer from causing a decision to be made concerning a business relationship with a firm in which the officer has a close relative with a significant financial interest.

But what can be said to support the claim that an agent's causing a decision is his exercising free will?

If in fact Leo's causing his decision constitutes his exercising free will, then the difference between his causing a decision to tell the truth and his causing a decision to lie is not just a matter of luck; it is a matter of how Leo exercises his free will.

Through various mechanisms of competition, only a subset of these circuits ultimately causes a decision or an action.

When the formation of a preference is nondeterministically caused and it deterministically causes a decision and subsequent action, then a preference that partly constitutes the agent, one that is generated by an evaluative faculty that partly constitutes the agent, and one that the agent could have prevented (by not forming that preference) causally determines the decision and subsequent action.

Under today's decision, your boss is only your "supervisor" if they have the power to make a "significant change in [your] employment status, such as hiring, firing, failing to promote, reassignment with significantly different responsibilities, or a decision causing a significant change in benefits".

It is an exercise of such control whether these prior events cause it deterministically or nondeterministically. Granted, if the causation of the decision is undetermined as we are now imagining, then there is (until the decision is made) a chance that different prior mental events will cause a different decision.

The difference is just that although, on the deterministic picture, these prior mental events deterministically cause the decision, now we are to suppose that they cause it but there was a chance that other mental antecedents would cause a different decision instead.

China Youth Daily noted in an editorial on Sunday that "the increasing turmoil in Egypt is causing a 'headache' for the decision makers in Washington".

Even if you win the trial, the opposing party can appeal that decision, causing a delay in payment.

The decision is causing a stir because most tax lawyers had thought that structuring a deal the way the Reads did would spare the husband taxes.