Sentence examples for deciding whether to engage from inspiring English sources
In a statement last month at the nomination hearing for Mr. Ford, Mr. Kerry said, "The real challenge is not deciding whether to engage — it will be in finding a viable path to improved relations".
Social exchange theory asserts that individuals weigh the costs and rewards in deciding whether to engage in transactions.
But in deciding whether to engage in violence, the settlers defied the rational behavior models, the researchers report today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Rather than how effective they thought violence would be in saving their homes, the settlers' willingness to engage in violent protest depended only on how morally correct they considered that option to be.
But in deciding whether to engage in violence, the settlers defied the rational behavior models.
For many women, tamoxifen was inextricably associated with cancer and deciding whether to engage in chemoprevention evoked painful memories.
Most study participants saw abuse of allowances according to economic models of corruption, i.e. that officials weigh the benefits and costs of alternative actions when deciding whether to engage in abuse or not.
Administration officials said they now expected Russia's president-elect, Vladimir V. Putin, to decide whether to engage in serious negotiations over a system, something that is not yet clear.
In an enforcement equilibrium (of both of these models), given the enforcement level (fines and the enforcement expenditure, which determines the level of monitoring/detection), each agent decides whether to engage in the harmful act.
Each agent (iin [0,1]) is risk neutral, and decides whether to engage in an act to receive benefit of (v_i>0) and cause harm (h>0), which is the same across all agents.
In World War Two, many allied aircraft were lost to so-called friendly fire, because of poor aircraft recognition skills, or the split seconds in which a pilot had to decide whether to engage an oncoming plane or not.
