Aside from the competitive advantage this gives to already advantaged children at private schools, limiting choices also limits personal possibility.
For hundreds of thousands of heretofore ordinary, dead-end kids, art and literature and music were suddenly illuminated as ways of seeing and being, as worlds of personal possibility, in a way that school had rarely managed to reveal.
Depressed individuals do seem able to access positive future events on a semantic level but struggle to engage with them as personal possibilities, perhaps due to reduced estimates of the likelihood of such events occurring to oneself (MacLeod & Conway, 2007).
But perhaps most significantly, the experience of AIDS activism made gay activists visible to themselves and to others in a new way, and created a collective experience that defined a generation, created lasting bonds, and created new professional and personal possibilities.
For Major Witt, the trial offers something more personal: the possibility of vindication and the return to a job she says she loved.
However, the participants agreed that most decisions are taken after careful examination of the patients' lives, personal objectives, possibilities and preferences, etc.
Still, although Ms. Mattila is physically attractive and blessed with an innovative costume, thoughtful choreography and a good personal trainer, the possibility of failure is real.
The report, which cited an unnamed source, accused Fisher of making that deal for personal gain: the possibility of a future job in the league.
Imagine a service that could give mathematical assurance about what is happening with each individual piece of personal data, without possibility of falsification or omission.
They are constantly in a state of "becoming," not because of personal growth and possibility, but because of what they lack ― a long-term, monogamous, romantic (implied male) partner.
Van Dijk recently received one such implant, opening a whole realm of personal and professional possibilities to her, including the chance to participate in the specially-tailored concert.
