Sentence examples for lottery decisions from inspiring English sources

Ulster arts insiders say that the ACNI was days away from announcing its 2007 lottery decisions when news came from Westminster of this year's cuts, forcing it to disappoint some organisations with lower levels than had already been signalled.

But it is not a lottery when decisions about provision are made by people who can be held to democratic account.

We employed nonlinear logistic regression to estimate each participant's probability weighting and utility functions from their binary decisions (lottery or sure-win) using a modified version of Prelec's compound invariant form [8] with additional parameters estimating the effect of the message on probability weighting.

Mark Jones, the museum's director, has fought long and hard for the Libeskind extension, but he conceded that the lottery fund's decision "seriously jeopardizes the future of the Spiral".

It is depressingly fashionable with all parties, but devolution is essentially a rightwing policy allowing a postcode lottery of local decision-making to disguise the retreat of universal provision.

They have simply gone rogue with every decision a lottery based on who is in the box.

This technique uses a lottery to assess a decision maker's preferences over a single attribute (which was either probability or payoff) range and trade-offs [40].

"But we know what the play-offs is about - it is a lottery, Lady Luck and refereeing decisions.

UK Sport provides lottery funding for athletes, but decisions about who should receive it are taken by British Athletics.

Talk story about the crisis of conscience at savings banks over the decision to sell lottery tickets is-sued by N.Y.

The New Yorker, June 10 , 1967P. 29 Talk story about the crisis of conscience at savings banks over the decision to sell lottery tickets is-sued by N.Y.