Timothy G. Kremer, executive director of the New York State School Boards Association, said the ruling "should be a prompt end to this state's long and sorry history of making children's educational opportunity a function of the wealth of their community".
I majored in communications because if I did not guarantee myself the opportunity to function throughout life as a talented, creative person, I was, by design, guaranteeing myself a life of misery.
Where private business shows no signs of becoming a monopoly, operates efficiently under decent working conditions, and does not operate to the detriment of the Canadian people, it will be given every opportunity to function, to provide a fair rate of return and to make its contribution to the nation's wealth".
For one thing, Sen clearly wants to allow that one's capabilities can increase by virtue of gaining opportunities to function even though one does not get real freedom to accept or decline the opportunities.
Socioeconomic inequality has persisted in the post-apartheid era, as have alarming rates of unemployment, lack of educational and economic opportunity, uneven functioning of state institutions, and the devastating effect of H.I.V. and AIDS.
In many cases, communities attempted to set up core conservation areas intended to support wildlife, optimize community-based tourism opportunities, and function as reserves for grazing during droughts.
While a Rawlsian perspective would focus on equality of access to primary goods, the capability approach insists, rather, on equality of capabilities or opportunities to function.
The availability of genomic-level information from high-throughput measurements of genetic and protein interactions, messenger RNA expression profiles and metabolic pathways has created new opportunities for function prediction.
Acetaldehyde is extremely toxic — far more so than alcohol — but it has little opportunity (unless liver function is impaired by disease or drugs) to make its sickening presence felt.
The bandwidth of the embedded user is BR. the appropriate bandwidth resources would be allocated to embedded users by opportunity allocation utility function OA (PC).
