Sentence examples for satisfy rather than from inspiring English sources

In the 1960s and 1970s, Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon and others developed behavioral economic theories assuming that people satisfy rather than maximize their profit or utility and that their rationality is bounded (i.e. confined).

What the elenchus needs if it is to satisfy rather than frustrate love, in other words, is the theory of Platonic Forms.

Using Maslow's hierarchy of needs as a paradigm the present research proposes a structural definition that is grounded on the known and unknown needs an elegant system satisfies, rather than on its emergent properties.

Under the circumstances, we can be satisfied rather than ecstatic about things".

4. Choose to stop eating when you are satisfied, rather than continuing because you're afraid you won't get a chance to eat this delicious food later.

O'Connor suggests that general satisfaction with decision making could be more strongly affected by the practitioner relationship than the decision aid, and people find it psychologically comforting to say that they are satisfied rather than retrospectively doubt their own decisions[ 9].

"It is so much better when you can offer the patient an appointment on the day; you come off the phone feeling satisfied rather than the hassle you used to have bargaining with them about how ill they are and why can't they come tomorrow" (R2).

Here again the goal is to provide food that satisfies rather than stupefies.

Too frequently, we as leaders are trying to satisfy ourselves rather than others.

State plans meant to satisfy hunters rather than protect the wolves cannot do that.

Those plans have been crafted to satisfy hunters rather than protect the wolves or the ecosystem in which they play an essential role.