Sentence examples for choices to act from inspiring English sources

This state of wondering paralysis cries out for criticism, which promises to sort through the glut, to assist in the formation of choices, to act as gatekeeper to our besieged sensoria.

Happy people make specific behavioral and attitudinal choices that leave them with feelings of well being, calm, and contentment, and these choices are entirely cognitive - that is, they are conscious choices to act certain ways.

Although this might seem to be the opposite approach to the modern-age ideals of positive thinking and positive feelings to achieve success, I believe that being aware of our choices to act for one another frees us from pain and unwanted consequences we might face later.

The president made the right choice to act, but this is a war of choice, not necessity.

Purists may want to stop there, but Mr. Spurlock's retrospective is interesting, even if he is an odd choice to act as spokesman for a series that speaks so eloquently for itself.

An unanticipated and unilateral change in a fundamental term of her employment gave her a stark choice: to act against her religious convictions (which the court accepted were conscientiously and sincerely held) or to leave her employment.

Some advocates for workers contended that the Energy Department was a poor choice to act on behalf of workers, after decades of poor safety and health processes and denial of problems.

For if a person's choice to act is causally necessitated by earlier states of his body or mind, then at the time of that choice it was not in the agent's power to choose to not act.

In this study, a natural polymer was used as control because it is known that naturally occurring biopolymers such as alginate due to their biodegradability, low toxicity, and low disposal costs are proper choice to act as tissue engineering scaffold.

The mesh based geometry format used by Blender, coupled with the ability to create custom user interfaces with the Python API, made Blender an appropriate choice to act as a Radiance frontend.

In contrast to Locke, who characterized freedom as the power to carry out the action that we choose (will) to do, leaving the choice (volition) itself to be causally necessitated by the agent's motives, Clarke locates freedom squarely at the level of the choice to act or not act.