Sentence examples for rules thinking from inspiring English sources

"If you don't, then it's very easy to slip into a situation in which you end up bending rules thinking that the ends always justify the means," Mr. Obama said.

The book contends that from law school on through their careers, lawyers are so imbued with the concepts of serving a client in an adversarial arena ("zealous advocacy," in legal parlance) and unemotionally evaluating facts and rules ("thinking like a lawyer," as the phrase goes) that they fail to answer to any overarching sense of right and wrong.

Analytical thinking an indication of the use of adaptive thinking strategies, e.g., evaluation of all options, following useful decision-making rules, thinking rationally.

Ulster Protestants feared that "Home Rule means Rome Rule", thinking they would lose the religious and economic freedoms they enjoyed as part of the United Kingdom by becoming a minority in a mainly Catholic Ireland.

The consequences, my friend, are dire, and there is no truth to the 'exception to the rule' thinking.

"That means staying within the rules but thinking outside of the box because the control mechanisms are too tight to take a risk".

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A pair of researchers has proposed that deceitfulness may lead to creativity because both depend on people feeling unconstrained by rules and thinking outside the box.

"I'm not considering anything political right now, but I haven't ruled out thinking about such things later on," said Mr. Gore, who won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote in last year's campaign against George W. Bush.

We found that, relative to more systematic, rule convergent thinking, rule divergent thinking was associated with widespread decreases in delta band activity.

As Wittgenstein concludes in the key section 202: "It is not possible to obey a rule 'privately': otherwise thinking one was obeying a rule would be the same thing as obeying it".