Sentence examples for opportunity principle from inspiring English sources

Fisher believed that interest rates result from the interaction of two forces: the "time preference" that people have for immediate income, and the investment opportunity principle (simply put, the possibility that income invested now will yield greater income later).

This book weighs alternative conceptions of the equal opportunity principle through an empirical and ethical exploration of the Federal law that directs local school districts to award special educational opportunities to students who are classified as learning disabled (LD).

Part Two critically develops Rawls's criterion of justice — accommodating basic social and economic needs under the first principle; education, employment, and health care under the opportunity principle; and leisure under the difference principle.

The argument for universal access sketched earlier specifically embraces Rawls's fair equality of opportunity principle.

A society therefore will have reasons to adopt a more substantial equality of opportunity principle, with equal opportunities for education, health care, etc. — the same reasons it had for adopting a merely formal equality of opportunity principle.

(Workplace organisation, if validated as a determinant of health, would also be regulated under the fair equality of opportunity principle).

The suggestion that insistence on equal opportunity might reduce the opportunities available to the worst off in this regard might prompt a broader rejection of equal opportunity principles.

In this situation, there will be a certain number of opportunities that are regulated by these equal opportunity principles that are available to those who have the least of these opportunities.

Equality of opportunity principles assert that if there is to be inequality in the rewards and remuneration and status dispensed by social arrangements, all members of society should have equal opportunity suitably defined to gain the superior positions.

Okin argues that the "gender system" violates both the liberty and equality of opportunity principles because by effectively assigning roles to citizens according to sex it circumvents citizens' "free choice of occupation" (Okin 1989, 103).

An important extension of the equal-opportunities principle came in 1949, when the Federal Communications Commission which had succeeded the FRC in 1934 adopted the "fairness doctrine". The doctrine required stations to air controversial news and public-affairs programming and to offer reply time to people who disagreed with their views.