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Discover LudwigThe phrase "for doing otherwise" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to introduce a reason or explanation for why one may choose to do something differently than expected or usual. Example: "I always follow a strict diet, but for doing otherwise, I couldn't resist trying the decadent chocolate cake."
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Because there's no ethical justification for doing otherwise.
So if stealing were an acceptable practice — if we lived in a world in which people just took whatever they wanted, simply because there was no clear argument for doing otherwise — our lives would be consumed by anxiety.
An agent wants more to act on a certain reason, he holds, when her desire to act on that reason has greater motivational strength than have any desires she has to act on competing reasons, and when it is settled in the agent's mind that that reason, rather than her reasons for doing otherwise, is the one that she will now and in the future act on.
Nonetheless, courts generally do so as a matter of comity, unless there are good reasons for doing otherwise.
For maximum comparability with existing published research and public domain data, however, users are asked to retain the same wording unless there is a compelling reason for doing otherwise.
Therefore, it's generally recommended that you leave automatic updating on, unless you have a good reason for doing otherwise.
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On Monday, several Republicans praised the decision to hold a military trial, while attacking the administration for ever thinking of doing otherwise.
If one is restrained, incapacitated by violent means, or denied essential means to achieve a purpose, then it may be fairly obvious why one has an excuse for not doing otherwise than one did (See Anderson 2010).
And while we are told we can't increase nutrition spending for the one in five American children who are "food-insecure" without cutting something else to pay for it -- doing otherwise would be irresponsible, of course, leaving our children with a huge debt burden -- and yet ending the estate tax is unpaid for, all adding to the deficit and debt.
Attorney general Dominic Grieve affirmed in the debate that "we will honour those international obligations", for to do otherwise would "diminish our own status, in terms of our respect for international law as much as domestic law".
For them to do otherwise would truly be a proper cause for concern.
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