Sentence examples for conscious avoidance from inspiring English sources

But muddying the issue a bit, the note asked about "conscious avoidance," or willful blindness.

The amended complaint contends that the auditing firm concealed the fraud "first by negligence, then by conscious avoidance and eventually by active facilitation".

The F.C.P.A., they said, also criminalized "conscious avoidance"—a deliberate effort to remain in the dark about any transgressions a foreign partner might be involved in.

They also argued that the trial judge wrongly instructed the jury that it could convict Mr. Ebbers on the basis that he engaged in "conscious avoidance" of the fraud at WorldCom.

His early work was mainly low-rise housing projects in the New Brutalist style, which emphasized exposures of raw steel and brick and the conscious avoidance of polish and elegance.

Although opposition to fundamental orderings of the ruling state was not based upon any conscious revolutionary program, contemporaries blamed the expansion of the Christian church in the Roman Empire for an internal weakening of the empire on the basis of this conscious avoidance of many aspects of public life, including military service.

Previous studies also showed that both conscious and unconscious avoidance of disease stresses is associated with increased depressive symptoms and a poor total mental health functioning in various physical disorders [ 22, 23], including ESRD [ 25, 26, 28].

Information processing in anxious participants during stress was characterized by early selective attention of emotional stimuli, occurring prior to full conscious awareness, followed by effortful avoidance of threat.

There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny". We can stop ourselves from going down the rabbit hole by recognizing our procrastinating behaviors (i.e. anything that demonstrates avoidance) and becoming conscious of our actions.

These methods are based mainly on motivational conflicts (e.g., approach-avoidance) and restricted to conscious interference between goals (as reported by participants).

"They've taken care of us since time immemorial". But, as a steward of traditional culture, he was conscious of the Inupiaq principle of paaqlaktautaiññiq the avoidance of community conflict and he saw that power on the North Slope was shifting.