Sentence examples for give for doing from inspiring English sources
Others, like Wegner, took it as evidence that conscious will is an illusion, and that consciousness is epiphenomenal -- that consciousness played no role in ordinary social behavior, and that the reasons we give for doing the things we do are little more than after-the-fact rationalizations.
He writes that "to say that [objective prescriptions] are intrinsically action-guiding [which is one way Mackie sometimes describes the queerness whose existence he is denying] is to say that the reasons that they give for doing or for not doing something are independent of that agent's desires or purposes" (Mackie 1982: 115).
You don't have to rehearse every word, but you should have a sense of what you're going to say to end the relationship and what reason you're going to give for doing it.
"And the reasons they gave for doing it?
I think of it as the punishment that keeps on giving for doing what I did".
The reasons given for doing it are often highly questionable and black and Asians are still disproportionately stopped".
Few historians are taught to do it; many feel they do not need to do it; and professional rewards are not given for doing it.
Ordinary women took off their clothes to protest in front of the army that day, and the reasons they gave for doing so were chilling.
But if we must respect what the voters have done, we must also respect the reasons they have given for doing it.
He was frightened to enter the disease-afflicted villages, he said, but the reason he gave for doing so anyway seemed more extraordinary than simple heroism.
