Sentence examples for choosing that alternative from inspiring English sources

The economics term is "opportunity cost": When you choose one alternative, you might get the gains from choosing that alternative, but you lose the potential gains you might have had from the choosing another alternative.

If the team chose that alternative, Belle would not count against its 40-man roster.

A new technique, multiattribute utility analysis, makes such modeling possible by precisely specifying the factors that affect the choice, making trade-offs among the factors, and choosing the alternative that offers the best balance.

And Alonso suggested that choosing the alternative strategy to the dominant 26-year-old was his only option.

In contrast, on Stocker's account, choosing the alternative that is "good enough" is non-instrumentally rational (Stocker 2004).

Central to Dr. Goldstein's and his co-authors' thinking, Dr. Guggenheim said, was the idea "that courts should choose the alternative that was the least detrimental to the interest of the child".

The main objective of this study is to develop a multi-methodological approach that allows supporting decision makers to choose the alternative that achieves the best compromise solution in irrigated areas between a set of socio-economic and environmental attributes.

According to Levi, v-admissibility captures what he takes to be a plausible judgment namely, that it would be unjustified to choose the alternative that is second worse on all relevant respects (Levi 2004).

When this woman found that a male colposcopist was to conduct the procedure, she chose the alternative that was offered of having a female instead.

Each actor chooses the alternative that maximizes his, her, or its expected utility in each period.

We solved the mathematical model by using the weighted goal programming technique, which results in a set of "compromise" solutions allowing the decision maker to choose the alternative that reflects the balance he/she wishes to make regarding the three dimensions of sustainability.