Sentence examples for conscious determination from inspiring English sources

The metaphor of a theater is fitting, because the action of positing a determinate subject versus an object qua object, requires an additional act of conscious determination (i.e., of abstraction from immediate, lived experience, or again re-presentation).

The Buddha observed that willful thoughts -- those connected with the desire to perform an action or think more thoughts -- are like all other thoughts; they arise and pass away without any conscious determination on the meditator's part.

Beyond these unconscious adjustments the central monitoring of actions is fundamental for the indication of errors (Ridderinkhof et al., 2003) and for the conscious determination if sensory input was generated by the acting subject itself or by another agent.

Several studies 24, 28, 35 have found that patients with more unrestrained eating (less cognitive control and conscious determination to resist eating, less strategic dieting) achieved greater weight loss, suggesting a negative influence of a pre-trial weight suppression on the subsequent treatment with sibutramine.

The England and Wales Cricket Board said: "Andrew has shown great determination and selflessness making a conscious decision to push through discomfort in order to help the England team reclaim the Ashes.

He sang a Jamaican version of the Lord's Prayer, and he preached the long-running message of conscious reggae: determination in the face of oppression, backed by Rastafarian faith.

What may stay in your mind is the seeming determination, conscious or not, that every object should be all that it could be -- which may be all the definition of art that is needed.

Nothing about Ms. Armitage's choreography has ever been more conscious than her determination to position herself among Balanchine's heirs, to quote from his bolder neologisms and to suggest that his classicism finds its sequel in her work.

While criticizing capitalism for its irrational competitive forms, he defended the principle of competition itself as a necessary condition for progress, the independence of persons, and the possibility of conscious, free self-determination.

As indicated by the citation below, men are conscious of women's determination to avoid male involvement and that they would rather prefer timely information to seek the available nearby care: … now considering that we live close to the hospital … the problem with women is that they do not tell us (men).

The extent to which participants have conscious access to their ongoing determinations of likely success in the moment has important implications for how they might more effectively use this ability to slow down when they should (Moulton et al. 2007), not only for safer practice in the moment, but also for future improvement (cf. Regehr and Mylopoulos 2008).