Sentence examples for competing possibilities from inspiring English sources

If I try to do that the next morning, I learned long ago that I get distracted by competing possibilities, and end up simply responding to whatever feels most urgent.

Experiment 2 tests these competing possibilities by examining whether learning transfers to learned motion played backward in time.

Using reasoning by exclusion is one of the competing possibilities, though not the dominant one, in the case of the dog" ([5], p.736).

Furthermore, producing low- versus high-frequency words may also require processes that resolve interference from competing possibilities.

We were unable to evaluate these competing possibilities, because data on premorbid personality levels were not investigated in this study.

This is consistent with the first hypothesis, although our results do not allow us to rule out the competing possibilities.

Part of the achievement of its "shaped chaos" is that Lucinde presents, within the form of a novelistic work itself, a romantic 'contest' of competing novelistic possibilities (see, for example, the interpretation of the famous chapter on the "Allegory of Impudence" in Behler 1993).

As developers scouted the possibilities, competing real estate brokers chartered helicopters to photograph the site.

Two non-competing possibilities include differential rates of N fixation and differential physiological rates of N fractionation under conditions of P limitation [ 27].

Emily Scott, with her broad features, strong-boned pioneer face, and modestly unlustrous, winter-sun blonde hair, is a test case for present-day American possibilities, yet she is competing at a time when those possibilities have never seemed so remote.

He sees it in the false trails and shadow plots (take "Great Expectations", where Pip imagines himself in one story though is really in another), in his doublings among characters and in his jostling possibilities and competing outcomes (for instance in "A Christmas Carol")."Becoming Dickens" is an ingenious, playful and often brilliant analysis as much as it is a narrative.