Sentence examples for inclination to accept from inspiring English sources

Yahoo investors, though, showed no inclination to accept the idea that the poor display ad sales were just a minor execution problem.

Although the player is happy at West Ham, he has shown no inclination to accept their offer of £15,000 a week plus lucrative appearance bonuses.

These attitudes include strong deference to science in matters of opinion about what there is, and the inclination to accept (approximative) completeness claims for science as actually constituted at any given time.

Arguably, in doing so, the dilemma tends to reveal our natural inclination to accept fate over premeditation in situations with no happy outcomes, even if planning might partly mitigate an otherwise inevitable tragedy.

That would be a mistake, said Glaser, adding that China has shown no inclination to accept what might be seen as U.S. "core interests," such as its alliances in Asia.

Bella DePaulo, a psychology researcher at the University of California at Santa Barbara, said Trump's use of repetition is a particularly effective technique for convincing his supporters of the veracity of his false claims, in part because most people have a "truth bias," or an initial inclination to accept what others say as true.

You could say that bad press in Europe has never hurt an American president, the Europeans' admonitions to the United States on its obligations to the world contrasting (unfavorably, as some Yanks might remark) with Europe's own uncertain inclinations to accept responsibility and risk.

My initial inclination was to accept responsibility, apologize and move on quickly.

On coming out, what I needed was therapy – not (as the homophobic Christian speaker told me at school) to erase my homosexual inclinations, but to accept and come to terms with them.

The American philosopher William James (1842 1910) refined this approach by limiting it, among matters that cannot be proved, to belief-options that one has some real inclination or desire to accept, carry momentous implications, and are such that a failure to choose constitutes a negative choice.

Our inclination to assume that computers provide a sufficient substitute for our own intelligence has made us all too eager to hand important work over to software and accept a subservient role for ourselves.