Sentence examples for consciously act from inspiring English sources

But the explanations above are based on a "rational choice" theory of politics, in which both individuals and groups accurately perceive and consciously act on their interests.

Thus, the enterprise usually cannot consciously act in accordance with the government's wishes.

It is hypothesized that people who consciously act in a pro-environmental way do not necessarily have lower CO2 emissions more than those who do not undertake environmental activities.

To be financially responsible, you have to consciously act against how your brain wants to function.

Implicit, unconscious biases are well understood and, while individual people themselves might not set out to consciously act in sexist and racist ways, systematized biases, left unexplored and addressed, yield sexist and racist results.

And Yitzhak Herzog, the cabinet secretary who the comptroller said served as a key conduit of illegal funds, said in an interview published today that the campaign consciously "acted on the basis of a loophole in the law".

Throughout the 1964 race, Goldwater availed himself of Bircher money and manpower at the risk of being soldered, by his opponents, to the Birchers' more addled views, the most notorious of these being Welch's suggestion that Dwight Eisenhower had consciously acted as an agent of the international Communist conspiracy.

It may even be, as was suggested in the study by Archinard et al, that the facial expression information could be perceived by the health professional but not consciously acted upon[ 22].

The film could theoretically shed light on the "free school" debate in this country, but it is self-consciously acted, with a cliched screenplay and a naive sense that if they succeed, everyone's troubles will all be over.

Surely neither the Bush nor the Obama administrations intended consciously to act in the interests of bankers rather than those of the public.

And Mr Costa showed a wry prescience in planning the new capital in the shape of a cross: a symbol, in his words, of a consciously colonial "act of possession" of territory.