Sentence examples for class of situation from inspiring English sources

In this paper we achieve such an integration for a syntactically restricted class of situation calculus theories.

Mean ratings of vicarious embarrassment for each class of situation were in the mid-range of the scale (see Table 1) and highest ratings were found for AA vignettes (M = 4.32, SD = 1.55) with continuously dropping magnitude toward IU (M = 3.28, SD = 1.42).

I hope that at some point, the economists turn around and realize that their models are good for one class of situations, but not for another.

The second component, for some given situation or class of situations, is an optimal method, not one that we can necessarily apply in practice, but one that provides a gold standard, beyond which improvements are not generally possible.

Although ensuring the "accountability" of agents to their principals is widely considered a core objective of institutional design, recent work in political economy has identified and elucidated an important class of situations in which effective accountability mechanisms can decrease, rather than increase, an agent's likelihood of acting in her principal's interests.

We have described a class of situations where we can prove that this happens.

The rule might be an optimal response to the class of situations, given costly deliberation and imperfect information.

A single diagram is often an abstraction over a class of situations, and once a suitable diagram has been constructed, inferences can simply be read off the representation without any further manipulation.

As several philosophers have pointed out (A. Garfinkel (1981); C. Hitchcock (1996a, 1996b); P. Lipton (1990); J. Woodward (1984); and B. Van Fraassen (1981)), some of the contextual principles behind our causal judgements seem to rely on considerations concerning which class of situations the effect is contrasted with.

Insofar as norms are shared, collective beliefs of what actions are appropriate in what class of situations, they will be consistent with actions, at least until the individual wants to belong and be identified with a particular group that adopts the norms in question.

However, given that sometimes attention can be voluntarily allocated to things other than the primary task (checking Facebook because I find the lecture boring), we refer to the broad class of situations where attention is allocated to other sources as disengagements rather than as failures (which can be considered as a subclass of overall disengagements).