Sentence examples for minded to exercise from inspiring English sources

After a short period of deliberation, the panel reported that it was not minded to exercise its discretion to discount any of Elsworth's whip uses.

The Spaniard – serenaded throughout his team's 5-1 home weekend win over Tottenham – has a break clause in the three-year contract he signed in March but does not appear minded to exercise it.

In the letter to the council, John Nash, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Schools, wrote: "I am minded to exercise the Secretary of State's powers... to transfer a freehold interest in the site to Trinity School in time for September 2015".

As she continues to assert her freedom of mind and to exercise her free will by resistance, even defiance, she is rescued by the attendant spirit and her brothers.

And while her doctors diagnosed hysteria, a condition "most prevalent in the young female members of the higher classes", they also discerned that excited minds seemed "to exercise some mysterious or occult influence".

I have changed my mind about how to exercise that care, and so should you.

And as a mother of young women, I'd like to exercise minding my own business in the same way I'd hope others would for me if, and when, my daughters make those cringe-worthy choices many of us make in our 20s (myself very much included).

Arnauld rejected a claim at the core of Descartes' position, namely, that the union of a person's mind and body makes it possible for the mind and the body to exercise real causal action on one another.

In other court papers, Dier claimed her brother insisted on situating his desk so that he could maintain eye contact with Mollie Bender, in order to exercise "mind control".

Similarly, if our minds are not forced to exercise beyond their usual habits, if they are freed from grappling for answers by the poke of a button, we can wind up uninspired, cognitively fluffy and philosophically pathetic.

The festival also pays tribute to British documentary-maker Adam Curtis, with screenings of his latest film, Bitter Lake, about the relationship between Afghanistan and the west, as well as 2002's The Century of the Self, which traced the influence of Sigmund Freud and Edward Bernays on the power of governments and corporations to exercise mind control.