Sentence examples for time inconsistent from inspiring English sources

They call promises of this type "time inconsistent," because the nature of the pledge clashes with the incentives that person making the pledge will face when the time comes to follow through on the commitment.

Section II.1 classifies the samples as time consistent and time inconsistent.

Table 1 (right row) summarizes the proportions of the samples that are time inconsistent.

Respondents were classified as time consistent or time inconsistent based on the exploratory open-ended matching method.

In this way, I classify the samples as time consistent if T/ S – 1) = 1 and time inconsistent otherwise.

Another set of behavioral barriers to reemployment arise from the tendency of individuals to have imperfect self-control, such as expressed by time inconsistent preferences (Laibson [1997]).

So the law adjusted in ad hoc and at times inconsistent ways.

The emergency management agency, the panel said, provided "unclear and at times inconsistent criteria" for approval of the system.

Yet in some ways, the Emeril presence is emblematic of the channel's wide and at times inconsistent embrace: Planet Green tints home renovation shows, makeovers, car races and celebrity interviews in bright ecological green, but the color is dappled with incongruities, from an all-fats-allowed celebrity chef to advertisements that undermine the channel's most heartfelt messages.

Such search-based techniques could provide solutions to the difficult problems of balancing competing (and some times inconsistent) constraints and may suggest ways of finding acceptable solutions in situations where perfect solutions are either theoretically impossible or practically infeasible.

To capture the rich scope of her identities, I documented in analytic notes my emerging sense of who Melody was by identifying and recording intertextual connections between the findings of the interviews and classroom recordings, which were sometimes consistent with and in other times inconsistent with or contradictory to each other.